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Highway Data Discussion => Updates to Highway Data => Solved Highway data updates => Topic started by: bejacob on January 16, 2018, 04:50:22 pm

Title: AL: US231BusOza (missing route?)
Post by: bejacob on January 16, 2018, 04:50:22 pm
Discovered a well signed business route for US231 in Ozark Alabama that is not in the HB. From the south, it follows AL123 into town. Downtown, US231Bus turns left following AL27 back to US231. Attached is a picture at the intersection of AL123 and AL27 in downtown Ozark.

I have no idea if this is an officially recognized route, but it is signed better than many. Should this be added to the HB?
Title: Re: AL: US231BusOza (missing route?)
Post by: froggie on January 16, 2018, 09:24:17 pm
As best as I can tell, it was never requested through AASHTO.
Title: Re: AL: US231BusOza (missing route?)
Post by: bejacob on January 17, 2018, 06:52:58 am
So how does TM deal with well-signed, "unofficial" US business routes? Are they left out?

It wouldn't add any extra mileage to clinch if the AL state route system were active, so in the long run may not matter. Just something I noticed on a trip and wasn't sure what (if anything) should be done.
Title: Re: AL: US231BusOza (missing route?)
Post by: yakra on January 17, 2018, 12:12:16 pm
And AASHTO isn't really a big decision-maker for this type of thing.
Title: Re: AL: US231BusOza (missing route?)
Post by: oscar on January 17, 2018, 01:00:27 pm
And AASHTO isn't really a big decision-maker for this type of thing.

Some states run this kind of stuff past AASHTO (for example, lately a lot of that has been coming out of Arkansas), while others pretty much ignore AASHTO except for the most major changes. I don't know where Alabama is on that spectrum, but froggie would know better.
Title: Re: AL: US231BusOza (missing route?)
Post by: mapcat on January 17, 2018, 01:50:41 pm
If ALDOT had submitted this to AASHTO, what's the likelihood that it would have been denied?
Title: Re: AL: US231BusOza (missing route?)
Post by: froggie on January 22, 2018, 01:05:59 pm
Minimal, especially if ALDOT requested it at the same time they 4-laned US 231 (sometime in the '60s there, IIRC).
Title: Re: AL: US231BusOza (missing route?)
Post by: froggie on April 11, 2018, 01:45:49 pm
It's signed well enough to where I opted to create a file for this business route and submitted a pull request this afternoon.  However, Beca, the business route actually uses AL 249 between AL 27 and US 231 on its "northern" end...it doesn't stay on AL 27 to US 231.