Filpus Roadgeek

After being a closet road geek for forty years, with the acquisition of a digital camera, renewed interest in the roadgeek groups on the Internet and spare time due to early retirement, I have started my own roadgeek pages.

General

Street Signs

Odd and interesting street name signs I have found.

Intersections

Wierd, wonderful and strange intersections

Superstreet

Americana

I was driving up US 401 to check out the new SPUI for I-540 when I saw this large Paul Bunyan looking statue in a field overlooking the work zone. I figure that that kind of road art is endangered, especially that close to the construction of the Interstate. The idea of this page was born then and there.

North Carolina

NC Highway Ends

My contributions to the highway ends web site - www.state-ends.com/ncends/state/

Exit 50?

NCDot has been putting up BGS's on the unopened section of I 540 west of I 40. Since I 40 is exit 1, the exits west of the I 40 have been numbered starting at exit 50 for NC 54 and presumably counting down. However, NCDOT documents have said that the entire I 540 loop will be 65 miles. So, this exit should be exit 65. What gives? Before 540 opened, NCDOT completely resigned the highway, including mile markers.

US 74 versus I 74

US 74 is currently multiplexed with Future I 74. Not only is that confusing for the traveller, it violates a long standing rule in North Carolina that two highways cannot have the same number.

NC Freeway Exit Guides

North Carolina has been adding exit numbers to non-Interstate freeways (and some expressways) over the last decade or so. These guides are a work in progress to try to document this numbering. Brian Leblanc has a site in progress, but it covers interstates as well. This guide concentrates on non-Interstate freeways and expressways. The to-do list of freeways is much longer than the list already done. If you have anything to add to these guides, please email me.

Historic NC 10

NC-10 was the Central Highway, the most important of the original NC state highways established in 1921. It largely has been replaced by US 70 and US 19, but remnants remain. An article on the road in Durham is here.