Clinched Highway Mapping

admin · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:34 am Post subject: Arkansas US Business Routes

Now that AHDT has county maps and city maps online, and Google Maps now covers much of Arkansas in its Street View, I took a good look at them all.

Two routes got deleted: 49 Bus in Jonesboro and 82 Bus in Garland.

Some routes got added: 63 Bus in Hermitage, 71 Bus in Waldron. I also finally added 412 Bus in Hindsville.

Some routes got truncated. I worked before on the assumption that the business routes would all be "loops", connecting to the parent at each end. But after looking at each route for posted signs in street view, I concluded that several were indeed business spurs (connects to parent at one end). Usually a state route or a second US business route took over what you'd expect to be the other half of the route that reconnects to the parent.

Anyway, I'm left with a short list of questions that I couldn't answer:

1. US 49 Business in Paragould: I can't read the suffixes in the US shields in street view, but I see signs for US 49B, something that looks like US 49K, and a TRUCK US 49& where "&" is a blurry letter that might be a B or a K. Additionally, there is a US 49Y in the city/county maps for a spur. None of this answered my question of whether US 49 Business reconnects to US 49 at the south end.

2. US 64 Business in Wynne: Business loop or spur?

3. US 64 Spur in Conway: Shown on maps, connects US 64 to the new I-40 Exit 124. Signed as spur or something else?

4. US 65 Spur in Eudora: Signed?

5. US 79 Business in Magnolia: business loop or spur?

6. US 82 Business in Magnolia: business loop or spur?

7. US 82 Business in Stamps: Maps say it either vanished, or the eastern half is concurrent with AR 53 and thus won't appear on the map (never more than one designation shown). Street view shows US 82B concurrent with AR 53 for the eastern half, but no signs for it on the western half. Keep or delete?

froggie · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:23 am Post subject:

admin · Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:43 pm Post subject:

We'll see if anyone can shed light on the other questions here:
http://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=644.msg15524#msg15524