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Highway Page Updates - 2003 (July-December)

December 22:

New terminus photo links were added for the former IA 156 and the former unsigned IA 424, as well as Business IA 2 and Business US 71, both in Clarinda, and Business US 61 in Keokuk.
Jeff Morrison contacted many different counties' highway departments last week to find out what happened to some of the recently decommissioned but unspotted state highways. There are too many to list here, but all unsigned state highways except for IA 410, and IA 978 have been accounted for. (See the Decommissioning Watch page for the complete list.) There were a few surprises here, including the fact that the four former state highways in Louisa and Des Moines counties -- 79, 99, 252, and 305 -- are keeping their state highway numbers (and as such I updated the County Roads page to reflect this). In addition, Jeff found out that a Business US 34 is being planned for New London (along the former IA 231) but not for the larger Mount Pleasant, which will be bypassed in 2004.
A news item that I've neglected to mention until now: Akron has refused to accept jurisdiction of IA 403. However, according to an article in the December 11 Sioux City Journal, they have agreed to do "minimal" snow removal this winter.

December 14:

I uploaded a table of active state highways, which also includes lists of the ten longest north-south, east-west, and intrastate highways as well as the ten shortest highways before and after the July 1 decommissionings.
I added a terminus photo link to the former IA 397 while updating links to IA 57, 58, and 263 (II).
The Des Moines Register reported on Wednesday that the US 34 bypass of Fairfield has been approved by the Transportation Commission, but completion may be delayed until 2008.
I also updated the I-235 exit list to reflect recent ramp closings and reopenings.

November 30:

Signs for IA 945 at the interchange with I-80 have finally been taken down as of yesterday.
On a recent road trip, Jeff Morrison confirmed two more county road numbers for former state highways in Benton County: most of IA 201 is now County Road W24, and IA 287 is now W14. IA 363, on the other hand, probably will not get a county road number since the city of Urbana was given most of the road; I changed the listing to read "Local road." (Also, I have concluded that the former IA 199 -- the only other unaccounted spur in Benton County -- is now County Road E44, since that designation continued from both of its ends.)
Some old news that I just found out about: the Transportation Commission approved the transfer of unsigned IA 331 (formerly part of IA 5) to the city of West Des Moines at its October 14 meeting, according to this DOT press release. At this point it is unknown if the transfer has been completed or not.

November 27: Two updates on four-lane projects: the aforementioned US 151 expressway segment is three miles long and opened on October 14, according to The Gazette of Cedar Rapids. Also, according to Jay Lehmann, the Avenue of the Saints (US 218/IA 27) segment that was dedicated on November 14 opened about four days after the ceremony.

November 19:

I drove US 151 between Anamosa and Cascade last Saturday, after attending the Iowa-Minnesota football game in Iowa City earlier that day, to check out how the four-lane project was progressing. The only new segment, at this point, is a two-mile bypass of unincorporated Langworthy.
The last Avenue of the Saints (US 218/IA 27) four-lane segment in north-central Iowa was scheduled to open last Friday. Even though the ribbon cutting ceremony was held that day, the actual opening was delayed because of rainy weather earlier this month. It could open as early as this coming Friday, or as late as Thanksgiving. (News coverage: Waterloo Courier, November 16.)
New county road numbers for former state highways, all courtesy of Lewis Schrodt: L63 for IA 41, P33 for IA 66, and L55 for IA 242.
Freeway Junctions updates:

Nathan Bush let me know that signage on US 20 near Fort Dodge has changed, while the county roads at the former IA 282 and 297 are still not signed on US 20.
According to J.D. Adams, though, County Road J14 (formerly IA 258) is signed on I-35.

November 8:

While in eastern Iowa last weekend for a wedding in Davenport I noticed that IA 405 (X14) and IA 979 (F44) in Johnson County now have new county road numbers, but IA 252 and the east-west leg of IA 305 in Louisa County do not. (And if County Road 99 is the new number for the former IA 99, there weren't any pentagons noting it.)
According to this DOT press release, two miles of the Avenue of the Saints (US 218/IA 27) opened to traffic on Thursday. The last four-lane segment between I-35 and US 20 is expected to open on November 14.
I have received word from the DOT, via Dennis Swanson, that unsigned IA 390 and IA 478 have been transferred to local jurisdictions.
Updates to Freeway Junctions: Minor updates to I-80 central and I-280 based on what I saw last week, while Jeff Morrison noted that Reinbeck is now signed on US 20 at Exit 215 even though County Road S27 (formerly IA 359) still isn't. I also noted that a new rest area opened yesterday on I-35 at Exit 159.

October 26:

Dave Roden spotted new county road numbers for the former IA 198 and IA 404; I also updated the IA 79 listing. He also gave me an exit number for the new IA 346/County Road B60 interchange at Nashua; I updated the Avenue of the Saints north exit list. (Yes, even though I removed the orange "UNDER CONSTRUCTION" notes, I'm aware that there are still some two-lane segments left.)
I also updated the I-35 central exit list; the six-laning between Ankeny and the I-80/235 interchange is now completed, while signage at the IA 160 exit has changed.
I made some minor format changes to the Decommissioning Watch page.

October 11:

The four-lane link between Des Moines and Knoxville is complete. The Des Moines Register reported Thursday that the last four-lane segment of IA 5/92 was scheduled to open yesterday. (Despite what the article says, though, there is no interchange at IA 5 and County Road S45, formerly IA 181, south of Pleasantville; it's still a four-way stop but there is a ramp for northbound IA 5 so traffic there doesn't have to stop.)
I finally caught up with my backlog of photos from the first half of 2003, posting new photos (including contributions from Jeff Morrison and Mark Odor) to the Council Bluffs section, the county road markers page, and the west, central, and east Odds 'n' Ends pages.

September 28:

I added a new Photo Gallery section for Ames today by moving two photos from the Odds & Ends section that previously housed the Ames photos, replacing two older photos with newer and better shots, and adding eight new photos.
The IA 5 bypass of Pleasantville opened sometime this month, but as of today there's still a one-mile gap east of the split with IA 92, so it will be later this fall before the expressway between Des Moines and Knoxville is complete. (And as it turns out, the secret IA 368 also applies to an old IA 5 segment northwest of Pleasantville; whether it applies to the just-bypassed segment through Pleasantville has yet to be confirmed.)
I also confirmed today that IA 316 has been truncated north of a point south of Runnells. And according to 511ia.org, the completion of the IA 945 bridge repair project has been delayed to mid-October, which may be why the signs at the south end were still up as of today.
I added terminus photo links to two former state park spurs -- IA 134 (IV) and IA 186 (II). In addition, after Jeff Morrison pointed it out initially and after double-checking maps, it appears that IA 194 did not follow present-day County Road M70. Instead, it appears that it followed 16th Street in Clarinda, which goes directly from what was then IA 2 (now Business IA 2) into the Clarinda Treatment Center.
Mark Odor reports that new, more legible county line markers have been put up along IA 330, one of which was for Story County, which IA 330 only enters for about 400 feet. I added Story to the list of counties.

September 14:

A bit of somewhat old news, which I found out about today after searching Google News: The Waterloo Courier reported in a September 2 article that the US 218/IA 27 bypass of Nashua and another short segment southeast of Charles City opened on September 3. (The exit list hasn't been updated since I don't know what signage is like at the new interchange with IA 346 and County Road B60 is like, but if I or someone else finds out what it is I'll update it.) The gaps between the two are scheduled to open later this fall to complete the four-lane Avenue of the Saints link between I-35 and US 20.
I added a terminus photo link for the former IA 349, and updated the link for the former IA 49.
I have also received several e-mails from readers saying that the maps on www.iowadotmaps.com contain an IA 534 north of Mount Pleasant. IA 534 is a temporary designation, thus I do not plan to add a listing for it. It's used for a road connecting old and new US 218 at the north bypass interchange (Exit 45); when the north bypass of Mount Pleasant is completed next year it will become part of US 34.

September 7:

I added three new photos to the Iowa City section and two new photos (while replacing a third) of the Quad Cities section of the Photo Gallery. In addition, although I didn't add any photos, I updated captions on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Mason City, and Waterloo/Cedar Falls sections to reflect recent decommissionings.
More new county road numbers: Jeff Morrison confirmed that the remainder of IA 107 has been replaced by County Roads B65 and S25, while Jay Lehmann pointed out that IA 122 east of Mason City has been replaced by County Road B30.
I added terminus/entrance photo links to the former IA 303, IA 356 (I), US 136, I-280, I-480, and I-680. In addition, I changed the links to all Interstate and US highway listings to point to Neil Bratney's pages; his site includes links to the national terminus photo pages at AARoads' and Dale Sanderson's sites.
I also added a link to Matt Salek's I-35 in Minnesota exit list from my I-35 north list.

September 5:

I added 26 new photos to the Des Moines section of the Photo Gallery. These include photos of the new SPUI at I-35 and Mills Civic Parkway, the I-80 and 74th Street interchange in West Des Moines, some street-to-street interchanges, and other sights from the first half of 2003.
More county road confirmations: Lewis Schrodt found other designations for the remainder of IA 49 to follow up on the previous update of that listing; Jay Lehmann noted that the north-south segment of IA 107 between Clear Lake and Thornton is now County Road S25; and Kyle Johnson found out that the rest of former IA 923 is now County Road W64 (in addition, the "HIGHWAY 921" street signs in Iowa City are gone now).
At Freeway Junctions, I added a County Road R61 shield to Exit 139 at the central I-35 exit list; it isn't signed on I-35 (hence the parentheses) but Jeff Morrison pointed out that it multiplexes with D41 as it crosses I-35, separating east of the interchange.

September 1:

Although signs are still up at the south end as of Saturday, Mark Odor received confirmation from the DOT that IA 945 has, for the most part, been decommissioned. (The north end is no longer signed as of last Monday.) The overpass over I-80 is currently undergoing repair work that's scheduled for completion in mid-September, and in all likelihood the IA 945 signs will be taken down after that work is finished.
It turns out that there are several more unsigned highways -- all of which were former segments of roads that were bypassed by newer roads that opened in 2002 -- that survived the July 1 purge. Dennis Swanson inquired with the DOT about two of them -- IA 478 (old US 63) in New Hampton and IA 390 through Plainfield, and they said that both of them are still active even though there are transfer agreements in place. (In the case of IA 478, I changed the name of the page but not the file, since I would have had to change hundreds of links if I did.) Other unsigned highways that were added include:
- IA 312 (old US 65 near the Engledinger Marsh)
- IA 331 (old IA 5 in West Des Moines)
- IA 368 (old IA 5 in Hartford)
Maps of all of these can be found on the newly-updated county maps at www.iowadotmaps.com.
I also uploaded some new exit lists after receiving permission from Matt Salek to do lists for the rest of I-35 and US 20 in central Iowa (he will continue to do Minnesota). The new lists are:
- I-35, from I-80 and I-235 to US 20
- I-35, from US 20 to the Iowa/Minnesota state line
- US 20, from US 169 to US 65; I have also incorporated the segment from US 65 to IA 58 into this list. The segment from IA 58 to US 61 is now here.
All relevant links have also been updated.
County road updates: IA 49 north of Bedford is now County Road N44, according to Lewis Schrodt (at this time it is unknown if the whole road has this designation), while IA 956 is now County Road Y68, according to Bret Zahina; he also says that IA 963 was recently changed from Y35 to D35 for some reason.

August 24:

As promised, I drove the new freeway segment of US 20 yesterday and went through Waterloo and Cedar Rapids before heading back. I extended the exit list westward to cover this new segment.
Other exit list updates: signage at exits 19A (northbound) and 20A (southbound) on I-380 have been changed to read "TO BUSINESS US 151," which makes sense considering that Business US 151 follows 1st Avenue and not any of the roads the signs mention; similarly, Kyle Johnson found out that Exit 240 on I-80 now reads "TO US 6."
I also found out new county road numbers for IA 82 (V66), the last segment of 131 (V40), 279 (W28), 283 (D48), and 920 (D62 and W6E). As of yesterday new numbers for IA 201, 287, and 363 -- all in Benton County -- have not been posted. Also, IA 928 is signed as County Road D25 (not D20) at I-35; the D20 designation that was reported earlier may exist west of Webster City.

August 22:

The long-awaited freeway segment of US 20 between IA 14 and US 65 opened today. Jeff Morrison attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony and has put up some photo pages covering the event. On this trip, he found out that:
- The old segment of US 20, as I expected, became an extension of IA 57.
- New county road numbers for IA 215, 299, 359, and 941 have been posted.
- The north-south segment of IA 928 became County Road R75 (the rest of it is D25).
Tomorrow I will head up to the area and verify the exit signage; on Sunday I will likely extend the exit list westward to cover this new segment.
Jim Niday pointed out that I missed a few county roads in the listings for the Delaware Crossing, Old O'Brien, and River Bluffs Scenic Byways on the Scenic and Historic Routes pages; those listings have been fixed.
Kyle Johnson notes that County Road W15 has replaced the north-south segment of the former IA 77; also, according to Dennis Gormley, County Road W38 has replaced the former IA 109.
I added a terminus photo link for the former IA 111.

August 18:

I've uploaded new highway shield images for all highway listings except IA 945, which is scheduled to be decommissioned soon. They were created from raw images generated by David Kendrick's Shields Up program; from there I edited them (using Windows Paint and Adobe PhotoDeluxe, the program I use to crop and modify scanned photos) and compared them to actual highway photos to make them look like the real things. Although there are variations in the font series and sizes that Iowa uses on shields, I used the standards for US and state highways: FHWA Series B for three-digit roads, Series C for two-digit roads, and Series D for one-digit roads. Right now I do not plan to replace any of the images on the exit lists.
Although there still aren't any signs for IA 415 along the new Saylorville Drive yet, all IA 415 shields between IA 17 and Polk City have been taken down as of Saturday.
While looking at the archives of Johnston's local weekly newspaper at the Johnston Public Library on Saturday, I found out the decommissioning date of IA 401, which resulted in the extension of IA 28: July 1, 1990.
IA 68 is now County Road S70, according to Kyle Johnson.
After contacting the DOT, a reader (who asked not to be credited) found out that the Avenue of the Saints will open to four lanes around Donnellson and to two lanes from the south end of the bypass to a point two miles north of the Missouri state line this fall; other four-lane segments south of Mount Pleasant will open in 2004 and 2005. The US 218, IA 27, and IA 394 listings have been updated.

August 12:

The new interchange at IA 141 and NW Saylorville Drive opened yesterday. Although Saylorville Drive and Bridge Road were supposed to be parts of a relocated IA 415, with the segment north of Polk City becoming a county road, signage along 415 itself had not changed, and the exit signs on IA 141 are the only indication that the new road will become 415. I don't know when the changes will happen.
Signs at both ends of IA 931 have been taken down as of today; Jeff Morrison found that the signs at the east end were gone by yesterday and I noted the same thing at the west end today (although it's still posted at I-35 and on its off-ramps). IA 945, on the other hand, is still posted at its south end -- for now.
This past Saturday I drove west to Adel and Stuart and eventually southward to Winterset, where I found out that the recently-decommissioned segment of US 6 is now County Road F60, IA 925 is now F65, and IA 322 is now P68. Other new county road numbers: G18 for the decommissioned piece of IA 83 and V49 for the former IA 297, both spotted by Jeff Morrison, and J40 for IA 103, which Dale Sanderson posted on misc.transport.road after corresponding with a Lee County engineer.
I added terminus photo links to IA 204, 205, and 206 -- all of which are gone now, but they were photographed while they were active highways -- and Business IA 163. I also updated links to former highways 102 (II), 142 (II), and 207.
Jeff Morrison looked through the University of Nebraska-Omaha's topographical map collection recently and I updated these listings to reflect his findings:

A City US 18 in Mason City existed on a 1959 map. At this stage it is unknown how long it existed.
A short freeway segment of US 20 between the former IA 248 (the road serving the mental health institute) and IA 150 opened in either late 1981 or 1982 to complete the bypass of Independence. (The 1982 topo map showed the segment west of IA 150 as under construction, as did the 1981 state transportation map, which showed a "fall 1981" projected completion date; it was shown as completed on the 1983 transportation map.)
I added the note about the 1965 relocation of IA 64 to that listing; it was multiplexed with US 151 at the time and included with that highway's listing, but not 64.
IA 256 became a local road at decommissioning, not County Road B55 (which is half a mile to the north).
IA 27 (III), IA 167, and IA 236 made turns from their county road alignments before ending in their respective communities.
The north end of IA 411, which probably became a state highway so the Highway Commission could build a new bridge over the Iowa River, was at present-day County Road F15.

August 3:

I added a new Photo Gallery page about my July 13 trip to and from Topeka, KS, for the Great Plains-area roadgeek meet. In the near future I will add a new page for Ames and add photos to other existing pages that I've taken during the first half of 2003 (and a few that Jeff Morrison has submitted).
There's a new county road number for the former IA 238 after all, according to Kurt Berge: M20.
I removed the parentheses from the G5T shield at Exit 44 on IA 163; John Brocato confirmed that it replaced the former IA 102 shields on the signs at that exit.
It looks like IA 438 (old US 218 in Mount Pleasant) won't be a state highway much longer: the city council accepted jurisdiction on June 11.

July 30:

Correction on the former IA 386: Bret Zahina found out that the former segment that ran southwestward from the John Deere Dubuque Works to US 52/IA 3 is now County Road D10 (the north-south segment, which runs from Deere to the common end with 52/3 and IA 386, is Y35).
More new county road numbers:

According to J.D. Adams, IA 204 is now J20 and R69, while IA 294 is now R15.
Jeff Morrison contacted the Hardin County engineer's office on Monday, and found out the new county road numbers for the former IA 215 (S62), IA 299 (S55), IA 359 (S27 and D38), and IA 941 (D20).

Terminus photo links have been added for the former IA 266 and 306 (their ends were photographed in their last days as state highways). I also updated links to the IA 94, 100, and 258 photo pages.

July 27:

A couple of anti-climactic new county road numbers to report: the former IA 428 is now County Road Y31, according to Nick Wilwert, and the Waterloo Courier mentioned the new number for the former IA 214 -- County Road T19 -- in an article today.
Another Courier article today, as well as an article in the July 25 Fort Dodge Messenger, both mentioned that the long-awaited freeway segment of US 20 between US 65 and IA 14 will open on August 22. However, I have not received word on what the new number for the old US 20 will be.
I made some minor updates to the Scenic and Historic Routes page, and I finally updated all exit lists that had decommissioned highways on them.
Look for some new photos (finally!) in the Photo Gallery in August. First I will open a special section dedicated to my trip to the July 13 roadgeek meet in Topeka, KS, and then I will update the existing pages after that.

July 23: More new county road numbers to report:

IA 157 is now County Road A21, according to Dennis Swanson.
According to Bret Zahina, the former IA 386 and IA 963 are both known as County Road Y35, while IA 113 is now County Road Z20.

July 20:

According to Ed Breed, the former IA 94 is now County Road W36 outside of Cedar Rapids. And IA 91 is now County Road L14, according to Michael Ehret, but there is no county road number for the former IA 238.
I added an entrance photo link to US 71 and a terminus photo link for Business US 151 (I had it under IA 922, but not under Business 151). In addition, I added links to Neil Bratney's Sioux City bypass exit list under the I-129, US 20, and US 75 listings.

July 16:

New county road replacements for former state highways:

D22 for the former IA 939 and W40 for the former IA 282, both of which were mentioned in a Waterloo Courier article on July 13.
G76 for the former IA 207, which I spotted on the way to last Sunday's Great Plains-area roadgeek meet in Topeka, KS. (Photos from that are coming soon.)
W60 for the former rural segment of IA 965, pointed out by Ed Breed.

IA 273 is no longer signed, per Kyle Johnson, but there are no county road markers up. On the other hand, IA 931 and 945 are still up as Mark Odor drove past them yesterday.
Some new terminus photo links have been added: IA 7 (finally completing the single-digit highways), IA 926/Business US 169, and Business US 20 in Fort Dodge.

July 12:

Followup from the July 10 update regarding US 30: Dave Vetter stated that the extra two lanes between Dow City and the Denison airport were removed as part of a 1970s resurfacing project; the former westbound lanes were never replaced after two-way traffic was moved onto the former eastbound lanes.
More new county road numbers:

F16 for the former IA 382 and F58 for the former IA 927 (although it is currently signed in Cedar County only), both thanks to Nick Wilwert
G58 for the former IA 349, thanks to J.D. Adams
An extension of D20 for what was left of IA 928, courtesy of Chris Dobel

July 10:

The former IA 982 has a new county road number: D25. Kurt Berge and Michael Treinen both pointed out that the Sioux City Journal ran a story on this yesterday. In addition, Michael pointed out that IA 300 and IA 301 are no longer signed on I-29.
According to Dave Vetter, US 30 between Dow City and Denison was indeed four lanes from the 1950s to the mid-1970s before the two extra lanes west of the Denison airport were removed. He also pointed out the existence of another "wrong-way" multiplex of IA 141 and IA 175 in Mapleton, as well as new county road numbers for the former IA 36 (M64 and D59), IA 161 (E60 and N33), and IA 286 (N41 and E16).
I added a terminus photo link for Business Loop I-35 in Clear Lake.

July 7: Updates from Jeff Morrison's road trip through Pottawattamie and Mills counties yesterday:

US 275 between Council Bluffs and Glenwood is gone now, and so are IA 41, IA 242, and IA 385 in Mills County. None of these roads have new county road markers yet, and US 275's multiplexes with I-29 and US 34 are not currently signed.
Business US 34 signs have been taken down in Glenwood, possibly as a result of IA 949's decommissioning.
These decommissioned roads in Pottawattamie County now have county road numbers: IA 191 (now G8L), US 275 (now L35), and IA 370 west of old US 275 (now H10).

July 6:

I updated the 900 series page to reflect the recent decommissionings.
Other decommissioning-related updates:

En route to Cedar Rapids for the 4th, I noticed that all spurs in Benton County along US 30 -- IA 82, 131, 200, 201, 279, and 287 -- are no longer signed. However, except for 200 (which is now V42), no new county road numbers (if any) have been posted. On the way back, I checked on IA 419, which is now County Road V36.
Chris Geelhart also reported that IA 122 has officially been truncated at Mason City's east city limits. In addition, IA 147 is now County Road B45, and per Chris Dobel, IA 383 is now County Road D65.
The former IA 105 will no longer be the only county road that kept its former state highway number. The July 2 Muscatine Journal reported that Louisa and Des Moines counties will call IA 99 County Road 99.

July 3: I uploaded revised US highway listings (plus I-29 and I-80), adding or updating some historical data plus noting the recent changes to US 6 and US 275. The 900s page will be updated after the July 4 holiday.

July 2:

I uploaded revised highway listings between 340 and 475, and fixed a few minor bugs that Jeff Morrison pointed out on some of the other pages.
I received confirmation from Mark Maxfield that IA 181 is now County Road S45. J.D. Adams also e-mailed me with new county road numbers for IA 258 (J14) and IA 266 (J12); he also confirmed that signs for IA 49 and IA 115 have been taken down, but no county road markers have replaced them yet.

July 1: In a way, a new era has begun at the Iowa Highways Page. With the decommissioning of 700 miles of state highways effective today, plus some additional historic findings that Jeff Morrison and I have found recently, I have begun a cleanup of the route listings.

Updated highway listings from IA 1 through IA 339 were uploaded today. I will get around to the other state highways and all US highways eventually, hopefully by the end of the week. In the meantime, the Decommissioning Watch page will continue to be updated whenever someone spots the removal of signs; thanks to everyone who has contacted me so far!
One thing to note: many recently-decommissioned listings list the roads that replaced them as "County road (number is unconfirmed at this time)." Even though some replacement county roads will be obvious, others won't be; I would still appreciate observations of which county road signs are up. If you know what the new county road numbers are (if there are any), please let me know. The only county road numbers we have confirmed so far -- including those for pages that haven't been updated yet -- are:

IA 97, now S56 (confirmed by Jeff Morrison after correspondence with Lucas County)
IA 133, now unnumbered (spotted by Jeff Morrison)
IA 183 south of Missouri Valley, now L20 (spotted by Jeff Morrison)
IA 221, now E18 (spotted by Roger Fritz)
IA 229, now E29 (spotted by Matt Kono)
IA 253, now H20 (confirmed by Jeff Morrison after correspondence with Lucas County)
IA 276, now M49 (spotted by Kurt Berge and by Michael Ehret)
IA 285, now M68 (spotted by Dave Vetter)
IA 306, now H50 (confirmed by Jeff Morrison after correspondence with Lucas County)
IA 327, now unnumbered (spotted by Kurt Berge and by Michael Ehret)
IA 362, now G12 (spotted by Jeff Morrison)
IA 988, now G37 (spotted by Jeff Morrison)

In addition, terminus photo links for recently-decommissioned highways are not listed with the "former" if the page includes photos of the highway when it was still active.
Exit lists, photo gallery captions, and other pages on this site will eventually be updated, but probably not until all the dust is settled. Other future updates include new route marker images that look closer to the real things, a table of highways that survived this mass decommissioning, and additional photos for the Photo Gallery.

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