Day: December 27, 2017

We’ve come to the end of another year, with many promises broken (where is that Infrastructure bill again?), some kept (SB1 seems to be working), and some satisfied only as an illusion. But, if you want politics, you go to my blog. If you want highway stuff with more facts and less opinion, you come to the main pages. Speaking of the main pages, a thought has begun to crop into my head: I need to do a bit of remodeling. I’m “old school”, working off hard-coded HTML, minimal style sheets, and information generated through perl scripts. I’d like to bring the page frameworks into something more responsive, and something that will work better for mobile devices. I’d also like to move any internal site references to HTTPS if possible (and if Westhost gets the certificate stuff straightened out). I don’t really need HTTPS, but being a cybersecurity professional, my site should probably use it even though there is no real risk to mitigate. Not to mention that I don’t want browsers flagging my site as insecure or dangerous, because they can’t understand the context or the purpose of a site. In any case, if readers have pointers to sites I should peruse to learn how to do this, please let me know.

Moving on to the updates: Updates were made to the following highways, based on my reading of the papers (which are posted to the roadgeeking category at the “Observations Along The Road” and to the California Highways Facebook group) as well as any backed up email changes. I also reviewed the the AAroads forum. This resulted in changes on the following routes, with credit as indicated [my research⁽¹⁾, contributions of information or leads (via direct mail) from andy3175_/AARoads⁽²⁾, Tom Fearer​/​Max Rockatansky_/AARoads⁽³⁾, Kniwt_/AARoads⁽⁴⁾, Sparker_/AARoads⁽⁵⁾: Route 1^(1,3), US 6⁽⁵⁾, I-10⁽¹⁾, Route 14⁽¹⁾, I-15⁽¹⁾, Route 26⁽¹⁾, Route 27⁽¹⁾, Route 29⁽¹⁾, Route 33⁽³⁾, Route 37⁽¹⁾, Route 39⁽¹⁾, Route 41^(1,3), Route 46⁽¹⁾, Route 49⁽¹⁾, US 50⁽⁵⁾, Route 51/Business Route 80⁽²⁾, Route 58⁽³⁾, Route 63^(1,3), Route 64⁽¹⁾, Route 66⁽³⁾, Route 67⁽¹⁾, Route 68⁽³⁾, Route 70⁽¹⁾, Route 74⁽¹⁾, Route 75⁽³⁾, Route 79⁽¹⁾, I-80^(1,2), Route 91⁽¹⁾, Route 99^(1,3), US-101^(1,3), LRN 117⁽³⁾, Route 120⁽¹⁾, Route 121⁽¹⁾, Route 123⁽¹⁾,LRN 134⁽³⁾, Route 137^(1,3), Route 152^(1,3), Route 156⁽³⁾, Route 168^(4,5), Route 180⁽³⁾, I-205⁽³⁾, I-210⁽¹⁾, Route 216⁽³⁾, Route 233⁽³⁾, Route 241⁽¹⁾, I-280⁽¹⁾, Southern Crossing / I-380⁽¹⁾; I-580⁽³⁾, I-680⁽¹⁾, I-710⁽¹⁾, County Route J1⁽³⁾, and Los Angeles County Route N1⁽¹⁾.

Added links from Challenger66’s posts on the “Sure, Why Not?” blog to the appropriate pages: Route 1, Route 24, Route 25, Route 41, Route 43, Route 58, Route 63, Route 65, Route 66, Route 68, Route 75, Route 99, US 101, Route 137, Route 140, Route 152, Route 156, Route 180, Route 183, Route 201, Route 204, I-205, Route 216, Route 218, Route 233, I-580, County Route G16, County Route G17, County Route G20, County Route J1, County Route J21. Thanks to Challenger (cough) Max (cough) Tom (cough) Whatever your name is today for putting these up.

Moved all the historic route designations to the proper sections.

Fixed the links to the various resolution archives in the chronology. A tip of the hat to James White, Senior Transportation Surveyor, in Caltrans District 7 for catching that the websites had moved.

Added a question to the FAQ to provide links to sites to see how highway money is being spent.

Reviewed the Pending Legislation page, based on the new California Legislature site. As usual, I recommend to every Californian that they visit the legislative website regularly and see what their legis-critters are doing. I noted the passage/veto of the following bills and resolutions (for some of these, I’ve highlighted key phrases in red):

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