Uncovered Shield!
My main purpose of pulling off to the side of the road on October 20th for this handful of 269 pre-opening photos was to get this shot: an uncovered I-269 shield! This is the same one as can be seen in the previous pic, just from a closer point of view. You see, much of the signage for the final leg of 269 was installed months in advance, and MDOT crews simply placed black garbage bags on the signs to keep them hidden in the interim. Unfortunately for them, black garbage bags aren’t the best defense against rain and wind, and over the course of those several months, this particular bag fell victim to the weather, allowing us to see this 269 shield before it became official!
I had toyed with the idea of pulling over to get this shot for the few months that the shield remained uncovered, but never actually went through with it until the 20th, with my rationale being that the fact that it was uncovered was only going to be cool so long as the interstate still was not officially open – and at that point, there was literally only one week left for that to continue to be the case XD
Oh – and yes, as you can tell, I-269 is co-signed with MS 304. 304 used to run along Commerce Street in Hernando, but ever since I-69 opened in the area back in the mid-2000s, it was rerouted to run along its route westward from I-55 to Tunica. I suppose this half that runs concurrently with 269 (east of 55) simply must not have existed in that time – so technically, while the western half is a rerouting of 304, this must be an all-new portion of the road.
(c) 2018 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Uncovered Shield!
My main purpose of pulling off to the side of the road on October 20th for this handful of 269 pre-opening photos was to get this shot: an uncovered I-269 shield! This is the same one as can be seen in the previous pic, just from a closer point of view. You see, much of the signage for the final leg of 269 was installed months in advance, and MDOT crews simply placed black garbage bags on the signs to keep them hidden in the interim. Unfortunately for them, black garbage bags aren’t the best defense against rain and wind, and over the course of those several months, this particular bag fell victim to the weather, allowing us to see this 269 shield before it became official!
I had toyed with the idea of pulling over to get this shot for the few months that the shield remained uncovered, but never actually went through with it until the 20th, with my rationale being that the fact that it was uncovered was only going to be cool so long as the interstate still was not officially open – and at that point, there was literally only one week left for that to continue to be the case XD
Oh – and yes, as you can tell, I-269 is co-signed with MS 304. 304 used to run along Commerce Street in Hernando, but ever since I-69 opened in the area back in the mid-2000s, it was rerouted to run along its route westward from I-55 to Tunica. I suppose this half that runs concurrently with 269 (east of 55) simply must not have existed in that time – so technically, while the western half is a rerouting of 304, this must be an all-new portion of the road.
(c) 2018 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)