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AARoads Wiki launched on September 7, 2023. This archive compiles news items that have been used on the In the news section for the front page since then.
2024
- Caltrans announces a paused safety improvement project will resume. The project affects the grade along US 395 over Conway Summit and will include wider shoulders, rumble strip median separating lanes, and lighting and space to implement a dedicated chain up area for when chain controls are in effect while crossing the pass.
- Open road tolling is introduced along the Ohio Turnpike.
- The technology included in a rebuilt portion of Interstate 94 in Michigan enters testing phase. The reconstruction was privately funded and includes features designed for a beta test to support guiding autonomous vehicles.
- A key portion of State Route 37, an expressway running along the northern shore of the San Pablo Bay in the northern extremity of the San Francisco Metropolitan Area will be fully closed on weekends in April for reconstruction, forcing motorists on a detour through Napa Valley
- Part of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, carrying Interstate 695 in Baltimore, Maryland, collapses after a container ship strikes a pillar.
- Utah Department of Transportation announces U.S. Route 6 will be rebuilt to improve capacity and safety between the junctions of I-15 and US 89, in the city of Spanish Fork.
- Caltrans opens the Centennial Corridor, a freeway re-route of State Route 58 in downtown Bakersfield.
- A partial collapse of a culvert closes both directions of Interstate 82 near Wapato, Washington for several days.
- A turbo roundabout opens at the intersection of State Route 25 and State Route 156 in San Benito County.
- The Utah Department of Transportation announces the grand opening of the West Davis Corridor (State Route 177) for January 6.
2023
- The Arizona Department of Transportation announces a new direct freeway to freeway connection will be built in Kingman to connect US 93 (future I-11) with I-40 starting in 2024.
- The Federal Highway Administration releases the 11th edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
- A new divided highway opens carrying British Columbia Highway 1 and the Trans-Canada Highway through Kicking Horse Canyon.
- A new section of the North Spokane Corridor (future U.S. Route 395) opens in Spokane, Washington.
- Interstate 10 in downtown Los Angeles was shut down for over a week as a result of a warehouse fire that damaged concrete piers supporting the highway.
- Traffic on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia is moved from the temporary roadway built on site onto new permanent bridges less than five months after the 2023 Interstate 95 highway collapse.
- The Arkansas Department of Transportation approved an extension of U.S. Route 78 along 140 miles (230 km) of existing highways between Jonesboro and the Tennessee border.
- State Route 158 near Mobile opens to traffic after nearly 20 years of planning and construction.
- Highway 400 closes after a truck overturns near Aurora, Ontario, spilling hundreds of pounds of celery across the southbound lanes.
- A six-day closure of the Bainbridge Island ferry (carrying State Route 305 from Seattle) to vehicles and bicycles begins as part of terminal improvements.
- The Interstate 95 express lanes in Virginia are extended south by 10 miles (16 km) to Fredericksburg.
- The final sections of the old I-74 Bridge carrying Interstate 74 between Iowa and Illinois are demolished by explosives.