Where was this road sign?
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This photo was taken in 1995 while on a load from Toldeo to Fort Wayne!
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Congratulations! We have a winner!
This photo was taken in 1995 while on a load from Toldeo to Fort Wayne!
Dave - please PM Chill so she can send you your prize!
Thank you sir for the shirt. I'm sure my wife will take the shirt and wear it. I would like to buy a jacket that has Expediters Online on the back of it. Have you ever thought of having a EO online store so people can buy shirts, hats, EO toy truck and jackets?
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US Route 24 is one of the original United State highways of 1926. The eastern terminus is west of Clarkton, MI at an intersection with I-75, and its western terminus is near Minturn, CO at an intersection with I-70. Once is leaves Michigan it runs through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas before ending in Colorado.
In Indiana, U.S. Route 24 runs east from the Illinois state line through Wolcott, Monticello, Logansport, and Wabash to Huntington. At Huntington, U.S. 24 turns northeast and runs to Fort Wayne; it then overlaps Interstate 69 and Interstate 469 to bypass the city before entering Ohio at the state line east of Fort Wayne. The segment of U.S. 24 between Logansport and Toledo, OH is part of the Hoosier Heartland Industrial Corridor project of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act.
chefdennis
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Turtle wrote:
Commonly referred to as the "Fort to Port" road....
Commonly referred to as the "Fort to Port" road....
greg334
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Bruno (Dave)
That's a picture of the Cecil stop on US127, north of Paulding OH. Is this the one you meant?
No, Greg I know it's in Ohio but I wasn't trying to step on Lawrence toes as you just did. The STATE OF OHIO Built a NEW four lane highway Greg. Remember the picture was taken back in 1995. Route 24, US 127, and county road 424 ran together Greg before they built a new four lane highway 24
greg334
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You Know Dave, again I ask simple questions to figure out where some place is because I drive US 24 every week. I don't recall it. Since you posted an overhead which is no where near Indiana, I asked to get a clarification - not in any way stepping on anyone's toes for God's sake.
Remember you said this is in Indiana, not me.
Dakota
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The new four lane is not quite complete, parts of it are open in both Indiana and Ohio, but you still have to drive on the old two lane. It will be very nice when completed. Lots of fatalities here in Indiana on the old 24
Dakota
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Fort-to-Port (Ohio–Indiana)[edit] IndianaMajor upgrades have taken place throughout much of Indiana where US 24 comprises most of a High Priority Corridor and has been recently upgraded from a two-lane highway to a four-lane at-grade expressway from Logansport to Fort Wayne. Further upgrades are planned for this corridor: US 24 from Fort Wayne to Toledo, Ohio and Indiana 25 from Logansport, Indiana to Lafayette, Indiana will be upgraded to similar standards. The grass roots effort to improve the section from New Haven, Indiana (Fort Wayne) to Toledo started from a meeting organized by Indiana State Representative Mitch Harper in 1989 at Woodburn, Indiana. It was at this meeting that the project name 'Fort to Port' was born. There are no plans to upgrade the entire corridor to Interstate standards at this time, but maps from the 2005 Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) show that Indiana will build its portion as a freeway with no at-grade intersections. The most complex and expensive portion of the Indiana segment is reconstructing the interchange with Interstate 469 east of Fort Wayne. The existing parclo interchange will be reconfigured with flyover ramps to allow high-speed movement of traffic through the interchange.[6]
In November 2007, Indiana announced they would change their segment as an expressway with at-grade intersections at Bruick Road, Webster Road, and SR 101, instead of a freeway section with interchanges and overpasses. The only overpasses would be two narrow (12' wide) overpasses for non-motorized traffic (Amish buggies) to cross US 24. Also, the interchange of I-469 and US 24 would remain as-is with traffic signals at the US 24 ramp terminals. The cost savings without interchanges would be approximately $75–$80 million. Right of way would be purchased for future interchanges. This change has been unpopular due to safety concerns with the heavy truck traffic on the corridor. INDOT claims that the current traffic on US 24 does not justify interchanges, even though the 2005 Final EIS states that it does.
(December 2008) Completed section of US-24 Fort-to-Port Freeway in eastern Indiana. This segment opened to traffic on October 29, 2009.
Responding to widespread public outcry over the scaled-back design, Governor Mitch Daniels announced on December 12, 2007, that US-24 would have been built as a freeway initially from Bruick Road to the Ohio state line, with interchanges at SR-101 and Webster Road.[7] The entire 13.5-mile (21.7 km) segment is slated for completion in 2012. The intersection with Bruick Road was to have initially been an at-grade crossing, but INDOT announced in August 2009 that a grade-separated interchange will be built here as well.[8] As a result, Indiana's portion of US-24 will be built as an Interstate-quality freeway, except for the at-grade interchange with I-469. INDOT plans to eventually upgrade the I-469/US-24 interchange by adding flyover ramps to allow high-speed movements between the two highways, as was originally intended in the Fort-to-Port Final Environmental Impact Statement published in 2005. Depending on funding, this work may begin in 2013.
Upon completion, ownership of the existing US-24 will be transferred to Allen County, and become a frontage road east of Bruick Road, providing access to the B.F. Goodrich tire plant and adjacent homes and farmland. Indiana is financing construction through the Major Moves program, and will be reimbursed when federal highway funds become available. Sections of the two-lane road that have been bypassed by the freeway are now locally signed as "Old US-24."
Governor Daniels and INDOT held the groundbreaking ceremony for the Indiana section on April 30, 2008. By December 2008, crews had completed construction on two miles (3 km) of the freeway from the Ohio state line to just east of the Indiana SR-101 interchange. On October 29, 2009, Governor Daniels and Ohio Governor Ted Strickland held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Indiana/Ohio state line opening the new US-24 highway from SR-101 near Woodburn, Indiana to Route 424 near Defiance, Ohio.
[edit] OhioOriginally Ohio planned to upgrade US-24 between the Indiana state line and Toledo as a 4-lane highway with some at-grade crossings. In 2005, it was announced that the 22-mile (35 km) segment between Napoleon and Interstate 475 near Waterville will be built as a freeway. The remaining Ohio segments from Napoleon to Indiana will follow the original plan, containing both at-grade and grade-separated intersections. Every intersection with a state or US highway on US 24 from the Indiana State Line to I-475 at Toledo will be an interchange.
In November 2007, Indiana announced they would change their segment as an expressway with at-grade intersections at Bruick Road, Webster Road, and SR 101, instead of a freeway section with interchanges and overpasses. The only overpasses would be two narrow (12' wide) overpasses for non-motorized traffic (Amish buggies) to cross US 24. Also, the interchange of I-469 and US 24 would remain as-is with traffic signals at the US 24 ramp terminals. The cost savings without interchanges would be approximately $75–$80 million. Right of way would be purchased for future interchanges. This change has been unpopular due to safety concerns with the heavy truck traffic on the corridor. INDOT claims that the current traffic on US 24 does not justify interchanges, even though the 2005 Final EIS states that it does.
(December 2008) Completed section of US-24 Fort-to-Port Freeway in eastern Indiana. This segment opened to traffic on October 29, 2009.
Responding to widespread public outcry over the scaled-back design, Governor Mitch Daniels announced on December 12, 2007, that US-24 would have been built as a freeway initially from Bruick Road to the Ohio state line, with interchanges at SR-101 and Webster Road.[7] The entire 13.5-mile (21.7 km) segment is slated for completion in 2012. The intersection with Bruick Road was to have initially been an at-grade crossing, but INDOT announced in August 2009 that a grade-separated interchange will be built here as well.[8] As a result, Indiana's portion of US-24 will be built as an Interstate-quality freeway, except for the at-grade interchange with I-469. INDOT plans to eventually upgrade the I-469/US-24 interchange by adding flyover ramps to allow high-speed movements between the two highways, as was originally intended in the Fort-to-Port Final Environmental Impact Statement published in 2005. Depending on funding, this work may begin in 2013.
Upon completion, ownership of the existing US-24 will be transferred to Allen County, and become a frontage road east of Bruick Road, providing access to the B.F. Goodrich tire plant and adjacent homes and farmland. Indiana is financing construction through the Major Moves program, and will be reimbursed when federal highway funds become available. Sections of the two-lane road that have been bypassed by the freeway are now locally signed as "Old US-24."
Governor Daniels and INDOT held the groundbreaking ceremony for the Indiana section on April 30, 2008. By December 2008, crews had completed construction on two miles (3 km) of the freeway from the Ohio state line to just east of the Indiana SR-101 interchange. On October 29, 2009, Governor Daniels and Ohio Governor Ted Strickland held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Indiana/Ohio state line opening the new US-24 highway from SR-101 near Woodburn, Indiana to Route 424 near Defiance, Ohio.
[edit] OhioOriginally Ohio planned to upgrade US-24 between the Indiana state line and Toledo as a 4-lane highway with some at-grade crossings. In 2005, it was announced that the 22-mile (35 km) segment between Napoleon and Interstate 475 near Waterville will be built as a freeway. The remaining Ohio segments from Napoleon to Indiana will follow the original plan, containing both at-grade and grade-separated intersections. Every intersection with a state or US highway on US 24 from the Indiana State Line to I-475 at Toledo will be an interchange.
Yes Greg, I did post that is in Indiana because the road it's on most Expediters that traveled this road at night doing auto part loads, as you can clearly see that the picture was taken at night. Back then when we had to write down our mileage when crossing state lines in a straight truck, this route was a pain because the state line sign was so small. So yes it's very easy to think your in Indiana when really your still in Ohio. I wasn't sure that it wasn't in Indiana because I didn't want to call Lawrence out on this. Lawrence posted this to be a positive post, not a call someone out to say your wrong on the location.
You could have asked this in a PM Greg not in the post. Thanks again for taking something that was meant to be a fun and positive thing into a post if the truck stop is in Ohio or Indiana. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like you are always trying to prove someone wrong because you always have to be right. Nobody in this world is prefect and the only person I know that was ever perfect died on a cross.
I wasn't getting defensive Greg, I was pointing out that you could have asked the question in private message not in a open forum. I don't think it was necessary that you posted in a open forum to make others look beneath you. I told my VP of Operations yesterday when I posted a shot of the truck stop that you would post something in regards to it being in Ohio and not Indiana. You proved me right. Why did you fill the need to point out a small mistake that anyone could have done.
If it wasn't so trivial as you put it, then why did you make it a point to bring it up in a open forum instead of in a private message? This is why people call you "The know it all of EO" Greg. I'm not say that to hurt your feeling Greg. I just wanted you to understand why people think the way they do. They call me the laughing stock of EO. Do I care? No, I have learned that you can't make everyone like you or like what you do. I don't care if people don't like me to be honest, Expediters Online is not about who has the most posts or who is the best. Expediters Online is about helping people in this business.
I have defended you many times Greg, but done it in private. I tell people you just don't know Greg, he really means well and is a nice guy. But lately Greg I have seen a pattern from your posts. Your a nice guy Greg and you do have a lot to offer to the people of EO, but others members don't post the way you do towards others. All I'm saying is your posts sometimes offend others. In the past I was just as guilty, but I look at things in a more positive way of life now. Life is to short to be mad or upset all the time. God Bless you and I hope you don't feel like I'm picking on you, as its not meant to be that way.
Change defensive to offensive and it applies to your rattling on in this thread. Who cares.
Got my Expediters Online T-shirt in the mail today and it's a very nice shirt. I would like to thank you Lawrence McCord for the very nice shirt. I would like to buy a jacket with that logo on the back. Would you let your members buy one from your printer?