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HWY 111 Study
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BLM Roadways Report
"Among the earliest “roads” passing through the Coachella Valley was an Indian trade route known as the Cocomaricopa Trail, later renamed the Bradshaw (Trail) sic 'road', which was one of the most important desert trails in southern California during the 1860s and 1870s. The course of the trail was largely influenced by regional topography, and throughout much of the valley, the Bradshaw Trail closely followed the toe of slope of the Santa Rosa Mountains. It took advantage of mountain spurs, which project into the valley floor, and their ability to naturally shield travelers from strong winds and blowing sand and dust. The logical placement of the Bradshaw Trail led to the establishment of permanent settlements within the coves of the Santa Rosa Mountains during the early twentieth century. The “cove communities” were strategically located where buildings and residents could be shielded from the harsh desert environment. The Bradshaw Trail was eventually replaced by State Highway 111, which provides important connectivity between the cove communities."
A proposal by Carl Schulz:
"Is it time to consider an honorary naming of existing HWY 111 (through The Coachella Valley) as The Cocomaricopa Trail?
BLM Highways Doc.
"Among the earliest “roads” passing through the Coachella Valley was an Indian trade route known as the Cocomaricopa Trail, later renamed the Bradshaw Trail, which was one of the most important desert trails in southern California during the 1860s and 1870s. The course of the trail was largely influenced by regional topography, and throughout much of the valley, the Bradshaw Trail closely followed the toe of slope of the Santa Rosa Mountains. It took advantage of mountain spurs, which project into the valley floor, and their ability to naturally shield travelers from strong winds and blowing sand and dust. The logical placement of the Bradshaw Trail led to the establishment of permanent settlements within the coves of the Santa Rosa Mountains during the early twentieth century. The “cove communities” were strategically located where buildings and residents could be shielded from the harsh desert environment. The Bradshaw Trail was eventually replaced by State Highway 111, which provides important connectivity between the cove communities."
www.cahighways.org/105-112.html#111
In 1934, Route 111 was signed along the route from Jct. US 99 at Brawley to Jct. US 60 at Whitewater, via Mecca, Indio, and Palm Springs. This is LRN 187, defined in 1933.
Before and after the railroad was laid through the Coachella Valley, the area was connected to the outside world by stage routes, one of which ran through the Rancho Mirage area. The Bradshaw Stage, dating to the 1860s, linked California with Arizona. By 1915, the route was characterized by a graded road that became the Bradshaw Highway and later Highway 111. Hugging the base of the Santa Rosa Mountains and roughly paralleling the Whitewater River bed, the highway became the spine of the “cove communities,” of which Rancho Mirage was one.
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California State Route 111
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State Route 111 marker
State Route 111
Route information
Defined by S&HC § 411
Maintained by Caltrans
Length:
130.175 mi[1] (209.496 km)
SR 111 is broken into pieces, and the length does not reflect the SR 86 overlap that would be required to make the route continuous. Portions of SR 111 have been relinquished to or are otherwise maintained by local or other governments, and are not included in the length.
Major junctions
South end:
Fed. 5 at Mexico-United States border in Calexico
I‑8 near El Centro
SR 78 in Brawley
SR 195 at Mecca
SR 74 in Palm Desert
North end:
I‑10 near White Water
Highway system
State highways in California
List ·
Pre-1964
History ·
Unconstructed ·
Deleted ·
Freeway ·
Scenic
← SR 110 SR 112 →
State Route 111 (SR 111) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California. It is the main north/south state highway and retail corridor through the Coachella Valley, a part of the Colorado Desert in the southeastern corner of the state and famous as a resort destination. It runs from the U.S.-Mexico border crossing in Calexico to Interstate 10 at White Water.
Contents [hide]
1 Route description
2 History
3 Major intersections
4 References
5 External links
Route description[edit]
This route is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System[2] and is eligible for the State Scenic Highway System.[3] However, this route is not designated by Caltrans as a scenic highway.[4]
Highway 111 links virtually every desert resort city in the valley. It begins in Calexico at the international border where it meets with Calle State Route 111 in Mexicali before it intersects with SR 98. It then intersects with SR 86 in Heber. As Route 111 continues north through Imperial County, it enters El Centro, intersecting with I-8, which runs east to Yuma and west to San Diego before passing through the agricultural communities of Holtville, Brawley, Calipatria and Niland.
A nearly 40 mile (64 km) length of the highway dotted with date and citrus groves follows both the old Southern Pacific "Sunset Route" (now the main Union Pacific line between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona) and the eastern shore of the Salton Sea. Though some small settlements and a California state park line the shore, the area is eerily empty due to the sea's rapidly declining water quality. The small town of North Shore is all but abandoned as a tourist destination, though more than 3,400 residents were counted at the 2010 census.
SR 111 enters the southeast corner of the Coachella Valley as a two-lane highway. It used to run concurrently with SR 86 in Coachella but that is no longer the case since SR 86 has been moved over to the newer SR 86S expressway, which was then renamed SR 86. SR 111 continues northwest as a major arterial road, four lanes or wider, through Indio, La Quinta, Indian Wells, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, and Cathedral City. Continuing west from Cathedral City, the highway enters Palm Springs, then swings north and then west to bypass downtown, while SR 111 Business passes through the congested downtown area. The highway widens from an arterial road to a divided expressway as it exits Palm Springs just northwest of San Rafael Drive. It ends at an interchange with Interstate 10 near the foot of San Jacinto Peak, just east of the San Gorgonio Pass.
History[edit]
[icon] This section requires expansion. (December 2007)
SR 111 was first proposed in the early 1930s due to the area's growth bought on by the Southern Pacific Railroad.[citation needed]
A 1993 rerouting of the highway takes drivers away from the historic center of Palm Springs, but meets with its original alignment as Business Route 111 a few miles further south.
The northern terminus was so busy in the 1950s before the construction of the freeway that visitors returning home to Los Angeles might have waited as long as two hours to make the left turn on the two-lane road that was once multiplexed as US Highways 60, 70 and 99.[citation needed]
In 1995, Caltrans was allowed to relinquish any portion of Route 111 through a city for that city to maintain. The legislature opted to make the act an "urgency statute", effective immediately, so that the local governments could improve traffic bottlenecks along the route as soon as possible.[5] The legislative definition of the route was amended in 1996 to exclude the portions in Rancho Mirage and Cathedral City, which had both been relinquished.[6] Cathedral City completed a pedestrian-friendly redesign in 1998.[7] The stretch through Rancho Mirage has the Coachella Valley's only synchronized traffic lights; they are set to 45 mph (70 km/h).
A 2003 law did not change the route, but clarified that the former highway through those cities could not be taken back by the state, and repealed the section added in 1995 allowing relinquisment to any city.[8] Subsequently, in 2005, the legislature allowed relinquishment within Indian Wells, Indio, and Palm Desert, subject to the same conditions, and to the condition that the cities must maintain signs for the route.[9] La Quinta was added to the list of eligible cities in 2007.[10] As of late 2007, none of these four cities have taken over maintenance of Route 111.[citation needed]
In November 2005, signs on Verbenia Avenue at the highway's northern terminus and along Interstate 10 were replaced to reflect the street's name change to "Haugen-Lehmann Way", honoring two Riverside County sheriff's deputies gunned down by a sniper on that street in 1997.[11][12][13]
In a similar move in December 2005, the stretch of SR111 through La Quinta was named the "Deputy Bruce Lee Memorial Highway". Lee was a Riverside County deputy sheriff in the city for many years and was killed in 2003 during an altercation with a mentally disturbed suspect. The suspect was able to take Lee's baton during the altercation and used it to bludgeon the officer.[14]
Major intersections[edit]
Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964, based on the alignment that existed at the time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage. R reflects a realignment in the route since then, M indicates a second realignment, L refers an overlap due to a correction or change, and T indicates postmiles classified as temporary (for a full list of prefixes, see the list of postmile definitions).[1] Segments that remain unconstructed or have been relinquished to local control may be omitted. The numbers reset at county lines; the start and end postmiles in each county are given in the county column.
The Scholastica Baths, built in 1st century CE, included the budding versions of many modern conveniences. Ephesus had advanced public works, including municipal toilets with more than a dozen marble seats in place that can still be seen (and sat on, but please don't use) to this day.
A series of 36 holes designed to handle your business stretch across three long benches, and a trough where relatively clean water would be flowing lies near your feet. Toilet paper being a fairly modern convenience in this part of the world, the trough was used to dampen your sponge on a stick (known as a "tersorium") for personal cleansing, and then to "rinse off" said sponge. In the absence of flowing trough water, a bucket of salt water or vinegar water would be used, much to the irritation of everyone's nether regions.
The waste channels hidden within the murky innards of the city were deep for the standards of the times, between 2 and 4 meters depending on location. It is said that if things were chilly, the high-rolling Ephesians would send their slaves down to warm the seats for them in anticipation of their arrival. To garner use of the luxury of plumbing, one had to pay a fee to enter, and citizens enjoyed a small pool, mosaic floors and pleasant company while socializing in the public loo.
-Atlas Obscura
Examples of the 'miniature chapel' style of grave markers.
Magdalena Community Cemetery
Magdalena, New Mexico
Dec 2016
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Three mailboxes, made for the small private community. Two of them are locked, one was ordered without the locked door, instead of this it was supplied by supported chain for the door.
Locked doors are heavy duty, very strong, hand forged with special window for mail, made based on USPS sizes.
All mailboxes are made from pine, cedar doors, natural wood finish. Hand forged roofs, doors, flags, numbers, pins and all other metal details. Special made, hand welded, plastic boxes for interiors.
Hand carved wooden nails.
NEW wood, NEW metal, NEW plastic.
You're welcome to order your own locked mailbox!
I create different one of a kind furniture, design and decor. Check out my website and Houzz page!
Rajasthani women drawing water at the community well. They never miss to pull the veil across the face as soon as they catch site of a visitor. I came to know that women in Rajasthan have quite learned the art of managing with inadequate water.
Community Health Clinic conducted by Trinity Care Foundation. www.trinitycarefoundation.org/
Write a mail to us : support@trinitycarefoundation.org
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Winner: Mainroad Mid-Island Contracting LP
Project: Orange Bridge Project
Category: Community Service
The B.C. Transportation Contractor of the Year Awards of Excellence recognizes excellence in the delivery of transportation infrastructure projects. Transportation contractors make seismic upgrades to keep our roads safe, build relationships with local communities to minimize traffic flow disruption during construction, respond to emergency situations and work within short construction windows and sometimes adverse conditions to ensure our roads and bridges are safe and reliable.
The Contractor of the Year Awards recognizes the outstanding achievement and commitment to the development and promotion of a culture of excellence in the road building industry. The awards for 2021 and 2022 will be presented at the Contractor of the Year Awards ceremony in December 2022.
Octopus community hunting
Okinawa, Japan
Photography by Shawn M Miller
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Sofia Buffetta practices to Gymnastics class at the Mason Community Center, Monday, March. 11,2013. (Tony Tribble for the Enquirer)
Today, December 16 2016, saw Greater Manchester Police
host a community Christmas lunch for elderly and vulnerable residents.
The event was held at the Force’s headquarters in Newton Heath and hosted by Chief Constable Ian Hopkins and served by the Force’s senior officers and staff.
Briscoe Lane Academy Choir and PCSO Ian Chadwick sang a range of carols and popular songs to entertain the guests.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Evangelist of Korean Culture in Cyber “Yu Hwang Wu Korean Language Classroom”
Efforts and activities of about 35,000 Vank members, having performed cyber diplomatic mission through internet for 10 years since its establishment in 1999, to inform people in the world of Korea in a proper way, are well-known through mass communication.
As Vank in online, Yu Hwang-Wu,CEO of Yu Hwang Wu Korean Language Classroom, who plays a role as a private envoy in silence by informing netizens in the world of Korean culture and history through famous overseas sites such as Wikipedia, Flickr and Social Actions, is at issue.
Mr. Yu is being introduced one after another to the overseas press, excellent websites and blogs by recording English columns related to Korean education such as admissions office system, university entrance examination and essay education in Flickr and International Business Times as well as by introducing about Korean culture and history through internet.
Data, made out on the basis of Mr. Yu’s field knowledge and long know-how, is checked in United States Yahoo, Google, CNN iReport, Social Actions, Mahalo, openPR NEWS, SPEEPLE NEWS and cnblogs (博客园新闻频道).
Mr. Yu, a representative of Yu Hwang Wu Korean Language Classroom, emphasized “It is a valuable social obligation of each netizen to set up Korean position in the world in a proper way by letting people in the world know about Korean assets such as Korean culture, history and education through internet, facing the 64th anniversary of Independence Day of Korea”
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Nottingham Community Transport electric BYD K9UR LJ16 NMU (980) passing through central Nottingham, 13/04/19
(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). Nyamebekyere is a small community that just got two nurses 6 months ago. .A clinic was set up to serve the fishing community, oil rigs are off shore.used vaccine and medication bottles at the regional hospital.Fishermen pulling in nets in Ewe, Ghana
The Prince of Wales hosted a reception for people living in Britain who are part of the West African community.
©Clarence House, 2011
The Prince of Wales hosted a reception for people living in Britain who are part of the West African community.
©Clarence House, 2011
"When we give people items from here, we are providing them with a sense of normalcy and, many times, a level of dignity."
Learn more about the Vanderbilt Clothes Closet: vanderbi.lt/rgiso
we're here with social landscapes.
This wall gets repainted every year with a new theme or message of interest to the town community. In the I-Square area of Irondequoit NY 2020