Highway Page Updates

This is a list of updates to all of my highway pages so everyone can see what is new or what has changed since they last visited. The most recent updates are listed first.

January 29:

• Jeff Morrison pointed out a few historic alignment changes:
• IA 13 was realigned in Manchester in 1971, around the time the first US 20 freeway segment was completed.
• IA 287 (I) ended in Farnhamville, while IA 175 originally went straight into Gowrie before it was realigned a mile south of its previous alignment between there and Harcourt in 1941.
• IA 344 (I) did not end in Conway, but at IA 319 west of there.
• I got a photo of the new Loess Hills Scenic Byway sign during a trip to southwest Iowa two weeks ago (more photos from that trip will be posted to Flickr later), while Mike Ehret provided a photo of the Glacial Trail Scenic Byway sign, leaving the Driftless Area Scenic Byway in Allamakee County as the only new Scenic Byway sign that I currently do not have a photo of.
• Exit list updates:
• On all lists, I adjusted the cell heights for most interchanges, plus rest areas and weigh stations, in an attempt to make the lists easier to read by adding more green space so the listings don't look cramped together. (River crossings, county lines, and other non-exits were left the same.)
• In a trip to southwest Iowa that also covered southeast Nebraska, I extended the US 77 in Lincoln list to the interchange with NE 33/Spur 55F near Roca, and updated the I-80 Nebraska, I-29 south, and I-80 western Iowa lists.

January 1:

• New year, new shields for the exit lists! Using shield blanks from Shields Up!, the Roadgeek 2005 series of fonts that resemble the actual FHWA fonts, and Corel PaintShop Pro, I have replaced all of the shield images on the exit lists.
• As part of a general cleanup of the exit lists, I expanded the About page to list examples of signage discrepancies, exits in only one directions, and criteria for inclusion of items that are in parentheses. Also, decommissioned highways are no longer listed on the exit lists, since 8½ years have passed since the 2003 Iowa decommissionings.
• On the Scenic and Historic Routes page, I added anchor links to each route and updated information on the Iowa River Greenbelt and Grant Wood Scenic Byway.

Past updates:

• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007 (second half)
• 2007 (first half)
• 2006 (second half)
• 2006 (first half)
• 2005 (second half)
• 2005 (first half)
• 2004 (second half)
• 2004 (first half)
• 2003 (second half)
• 2003 (first half)
• 2002 (second half)
• 2002 (first half)
• 2001
• 2000

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