Re: US 30J in Canton, OH

"MC Pee Pants" <watNOSPAMuzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> TV's Marc Fannin wrote:
>> Magyar wrote:
>>
>> [Good to see that you're OK and you have power post-Rita :) ]
>>
>>> "MC Pee Pants" wrote...
>>>
>>> > It shows up on the line diagrams, running along 4th Street SE just
>>> > east of OH 43. Most maps show this road as OH 172. What's up with
>>> > US 30J?
>>>
>>> The Jennings Freeway in Cleveland is designated as Oh 176J as well.
>>> I've forgotten (what Marc had told me about) the exact reason for the J
>>> designation after the route number on some of these freeways.
>>
>> "J" means "awaiting abandonment". (To read the long, drawn-out
>> explanation, by me, about why the letter "J" was chosen for this
>> meaning, see
>> http://groups.google.com/group/misc.transport.road/msg/3a4e96df639e38a5
>
> Thanks for the info. I thought I remembered reading about it last year.
>
>> In the case of US-30J, that's the former short-term route of US-30 when
>> the freeway was only completed to the eastern SR-43 interchange, before
>> it was extended east on June 29, 2000. This has never been posted as
>> SR-172.
>
> None of the route is signed as OH 172?
>
>>> SLDs are at
>> http://www.dot.state.oh.us/techservsite/availpro/Road_%20Infor/SLD/
>> (30J is in Stark County, 176J is in Cuyahoga, and the route suffix
>> meanings are in the .pdf legend linked from the left frame.)
>
> Warning: this site can take up lots of your time.
>
> Looking at the Hamilton county drawings, there are several "D" routes in
> downtown Cincinnati. The strange thing is it shows US 52 and 52D as being
> duplexed, within the same shield. It also shows a US 42/42D duplex.
> There are some one-way couplets in downtown Cinci, but 42 and 52 appear to
> be a single roadway. What's up with THAT?
>
> Here's the PDF file in question:
>
> http://www.dot.state.oh.us/techservsite/availpro/Road_%20Infor/SLD/pdf_files/ham_co.pdf
>
> http://tinyurl.com/9lsf5

According to the Legend for this series (link in David Norris's reply), D =
1st alternative (within county).
There are a lot of Ds if you go to Acrobat page 4 and look at the map for
Cincy.
But all the D routes are unsigned within Cincinnati, to my knowledge.

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