New Travels and Stats Discussion

[SSOWorld]

Well, considering that I didn't put anything in last year (laziness or just had no desire) I'll summarize 2024.

Lots of back roads in IL to black the state out County-wise on the way along US-61 south of Memphis - which blacked-out US-61 in full nationally.
I have now 2 interstates that can be blacked out in full with a day's drive - 10 and 40.
I've finished off the following Interstates
- 2, 22, 69E, 69C, 69 in Hou area, 45, the then-unsigned 344 and 335 and future 240 (OK), Houston's inner loop and tollways sans TX-99 (which marks Beltway 8 according to this site), DFW's toll system sans San Reyburn, the rest of San Antonio's loop 410, 49 in AR/MO (again!)
- Knocked off Missori from the State-but-no-Capital list
- Finally got onto I-59 somewhere
The highlight is that I drove roads in the UK for the first time (so driving on the wrong side - from my point of view ) - which gave me some M3 and M4 - I came close to the Magic Roundabout but but forgot about it! - Got some A and B roads too - including a long-winded one-lane road.  Train-wise, the London Underground, DLR, Eurostar, RER and Paris Metro have been used.

[clong]

About 90 new miles of AL state highways Friday.
Clinches: AL24, AL67, AL124
New Routes: AL102
Added Mileage: AL13, AL33

[clong]

About 80 new miles of AL State Highways and NPS Highways Monday.
Clinches: AL44, Natchez Trace Pkwy (AL only clinch)
New Routes: AL19, AL172, AL253
Added Mileage: AL129

[Markkos1992]

Yesterday's drive to PA did not do much for me Travel Mapping wise beyond clarifying that the first new PA 981 alignment north of Mount Pleasant is open.

I started around 4 AM by taking US 322 WB to PA 970 NB to I-80 WB to Brookville, and took PA 36 SB and PA 28 SB to US 422 WB in Kittanning and then took US 422 WB to Butler getting off at PA 68.  I looped around Butler a bit before heading west on PA 68, and then took PA 528 to US 19 back to PA 68 in Zelienople.  I had to backtrack on quadrant routes to PA 588 as I had intended to take PA 288 WB by the Zelienople Airport to Ellwood City where I looped a bit before taking PA 351 WB to PA 18 SB.  I stayed on PA 18 SB past the I-76 interchange construction, Beaver Falls, New Brighton, and Rochester crossing the Monaca-Rochester Bridge (taking photos from a nearby park) and then took PA 51 NB across the East Rochester-Monaca Bridge to PA 65 SB taking the Crows Run Rd/Freedom Crider Rd/Freedom Rd corridor east to PA 228 and then I-79.

I took I-79 SB to I-70 EB for documentation and then took US 119 SB to PA 31 EB to PA 981 NB (for reclinching the new alignment between PA 819 and the Norvelt area south of PA 130).  I stayed on PA 981 NB all the way to PA 819 NB to PA 66 NB to PA 66 ALT NB back to PA 66 NB to US 422 EB.  I stopped briefly to view Margaret Rd underneath US 422 before taking US 422 EB to US 219 SB to US 22 EB to I-99/US 220 NB to US 322 EB back to Harrisburg.

[cl94]

I spent several days in Seattle over the past week, and despite not having a rental car, I was able to get a bit of coverage. New coverage is as follows:

Rail:

• All of Sound Transit Lines 1 and 2 as they exist now
• All of the Seattle Streetcars
• Seattle Center Monorail

Road:

• 2 more exits of I-5, a little over a mile
• WA 520 from I-5 to NE 40th St
• The N-S part of WA 519 (walk), resulting in a full clinch
• The ferry part of WA 305. While I'm not claiming on TM for obvious reasons, the ferry is technically the route, so it's necessary for a clinch under the strictest interpretations of "clinching".

The WA 305 ferry also got me Kitsap County, my first new county of 2025. Plenty more of those to come, even if most will be outside the US.

[froggie]

Enroute to Albany this past weekend for a conference (plus a "roadgeek dinner" on the side), I field-checked the new VT/NH 119 Brattleboro-Hinsdale bridge and updated the TM entries accordingly.  Unfortunately, the short VT 119 no longer ends at US 5, so until everyone updates their lists I am the only one on TM who currently has VT 119 clinched.  I suspect there are a handful of folks who have driven the new bridge but have not yet updated their TM lists.

I also clinched a few segments in Mass and Connecticut, including a stretch of US 20 west of Westfield that has been vexing me for years.  I know have everything in Massachusetts west of I-91 clinched, and there's only one route I need southeast of Springfield (MA 186) in order to move that goalpost to MA 32.

The WA 305 ferry also got me Kitsap County, my first new county of 2025. Plenty more of those to come, even if most will be outside the US.

We (my team and I) didn't want to deal with the ferry so we took the long way around to the naval base at Bremerton, which also netted me a WA 16 clinch and a drive over the Tacoma Narrows.

[Bickendan]

Just got back from Hyderabad, India. Got me some mileage for NH 44, 65 (some of which via the Metro build over the road), 163, 765, TG 1, the Inner Ring Road, and Outer Ring Road.

[mapcat]

Got a short trip in over the weekend that let me change my sig image for the first time this year. usai is complete again, and now so is usava. The only one I needed for that set was not in great shape.

[cl94]

Took an overnight last weekend to get some new mileage in California and Oregon. As part of this, I knocked out 150 new miles of I-5, 70 new miles of US 97, (finally) finished both CA 36 and CA 89, and grabbed some other routes. Highlights that aren't clinching roads included a tour of Shasta Dam, my first visit to Siskiyou County that wasn't clipping it on CA 139, and visiting the McKee Covered Bridge southwest of Medford. Lowlight was someone smoking in the hotel and setting off the fire alarm.

As an aside, I found a couple of Historic US 99 segments in CA that we aren't currently mapping. I'll add those over the next week or so.

New clinches: CA 36, CA 89, CA 151, CA 265, CA 273, OR 66, OR 238, I-5 BLs in Mt. Shasta and Weed, US 97 Business in Klamath Falls.

Significant new mileage: I-5 (Redding to Grants Pass), US 97 (I-5 to OR 39), OR 99 (OR 66 to OR 238 and OR 234 to I-5 in Grants Pass).

[mapmikey]

Took a 16-hr ride on Saturday...

New clinches in order:  NJ 156, NJ 175, NJ 165, NJ 29, NJ 12, NJ 163, NY 284, NJ 284, NJ 181, NJ 15, NJ 53, NJ 82

New mileage:
NJ 31 (NJ 12 to US 46)
NJ 94 (US 46 to NY)
NY 94 (NJ to US 6)
US 6 (NY 94 to NY 284)
NJ 124 (US 202 to NJ 82)
a bit of NJ 27 and NJ 439

[Markkos1992]

^I am surprised that you even went to that area of NJ to clinch NJ 15 with the ongoing I-80 sinkhole closures.

[vdeane]

I went out Saturday to do some scouting for the Brattleboro meet, clinching the southern end of VT 30 and re-clinching the western end of VT/NH 119 in the process.

[mapmikey]

^I am surprised that you even went to that area of NJ to clinch NJ 15 with the ongoing I-80 sinkhole closures.

Didn’t remember that was going on. Never tried to get on I-80 at any point. US 46 wasn’t terrible either.