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Highway Data Discussion => Updates to Highway Data => Solved Highway data updates => Topic started by: 25or6to4 on June 10, 2017, 04:59:21 am
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In Kendleton, there is a connection between US59 and TX Loop 541 on the west side of town. But, having just recently driven the stretch, the highways do not actually connect on that side of town. The end of TXLp541 instead crosses the tracks back to the north to a mobile home park.
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Hm. HistoricAerials shows the connection being removed between 2004 and 2008. The designation file, Statewide Planning Maps, and county grid map were just never updated to reflect the change. The connection across the tracks wasn't added in right away, either, per both HistoricAerials and GMSV (https://www.google.com/maps/@29.4431261,-96.0072711,3a,40.7y,259.91h,85.11t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sdhf1NsOCr40Ym43bBspNRg!2e0!7i3328!8i1664!9m2!1b1!2i40). As such, I think the turnaround, what with its spiffy lil fog line, and entering traffic having to stop (and yield to U-turning traffic, apparently), would be the best place to put the...
End http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=29.443086&lon=-96.007340
US59 can just have its southern waypoint marked as closed.
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https://github.com/TravelMapping/HighwayData/pull/1341