Steve Alpert's Roads


Since I was 3 years old, I've been drawing highways on pieces of paper (and making interchanges out of clay) - my favorite is a bunch of my father's old business cards that I taped together and drew several multicolored cities on. (Yes, I ended that sentence with a preposition.) I also love reading maps, and going on new highways to new places. That's why I've been to all 46 states, 4 commonwealths, and 1 district of the United States. I've also seen 1 American territory, 5 Canadian provinces, and 3 European countries. I've taken road photos in many of those locations and put them up here, along with many people's generously submitted photos, for your enjoyment.

If you would like to submit photos for me to post on this website, please email me.
If you would like to use any photo on this website, you may provided I am the photographer, but please give credit, and if applicable, please link to my site or at least the page from which you took the image. If you would like to use any photo that was submitted, please ask and I will contact the relevant person, or notify me that you have contacted the person yourself.
For general road information and trivia, including explanations of acronyms and international as well as national records, click here to go to the misc.transport.road FAQ, on Marc Fannin's roadfan.com.


The above is a clickable map - the red states, provinces, etc. are places viewable on this website. If you're bad at geography, think Italy is swallowing the rest of Europe, don't know what that little thing is that I put next to Cuba, or can't seem to get your mouse onto Washington, DC, I'll be nice and provide the individual links for you:
Alabama Alaska Alberta Arizona Arkansas
British Columbia Colorado California Connecticut Delaware
District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawai`i Iowa
Idaho Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky
Louisiana Maine Manitoba Maryland Massachusetts
Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana
Nebraska Nevada New Brunswick New Hampshire New Jersey
New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Nova Scotia
Ohio Oklahoma Ontario Oregon Pennsylvania
Prince Edward Island Québec Rhode Island Saskatchewan South Carolina
South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont
Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Czech RepublicIsraelItalyJordan
MéxicoSint MaartenSwedenSwitzerland
Among many of the states on this site are hundreds of photos from the 1970's and 1980's, courtesy Michael Summa and Averill Hecht.

The 2007-2008 Vermont Driver's Manual, featuring my photos!

Other links on this site:

Original Interstate highway plans from 1957 and 1958

SPUI's New Jersey Highways at its new home

The Cape May-Lewes Ferry, US 9

The Albany Road Meet, October 11, 2003
The Elmira Road Meet, September 30, 2006
The Poughkeepsie Road Meet, April 14, 2007
The Hartford Road Meet, April 26, 2008
The New Brunswick, NJ mini-meet, September 14, 2008
The Buffalo Road Meet, October 18, 2008

Interstate (and a couple of other) highways I've clinched

Don't stop here! Keep looking around!
Updated: 2/9/09
Click here for previous updates


Virginia
I-85
- New page with 3 photos
I-95 - 10 new/updated photos
I-/VA 195 - New page, 4 new photos
I-295 - 4 new photos from the northwestern end
US 1 - Split page, 81 new/updated photos
Bus. US 1, Frederickburg - New page with 8 new photos
US 17 - 4 photos from US 1/17 NB
US 58 - 11 new/updated photos
US 301 - Split off US 1/301, 46 new/updated photos
US 360 - 5 new photos at the bottom
US 460 - 6 new photos in Nottoway County
VA 2 - New page with 12 photos
VA 6 - New page with 6 photos
VA 10 - New page, 7 new photos
VA 40 - New page with 7 photos
VA 49 - 7 new/updated photos
VA 92 - New page with 9 photos
VA 136 and Alberta - New page with 11 photos
VA 137 - New page with 3 photos
VA 145 - New page with 4 photos
VA 161 - New page with 7 photos
VA 207 - New page, 8 new photos

Maryland
I-270
- New page with 7 photos
I-370 - New page with 12 photos
I-395 - 3 new SB photos
I-695 - 2 new photos at I-97
MD 7 - New page with 29 photos
MD 194 - New page with 4 photos
MD 213 - New page with 33 photos and a video
MD 222 - New page with 21 photos
MD 285 - New page with 7 photos
MD 295 - 19 new Baltimore photos
MD 313 - New page with 9 photos
MD 537 - New page with 9 photos
US 40 - Split page, 17 new photos (16 east of Baltimore)
US 50 - 9 photos from current and former 50
US 301 - New page with 9 photos
Misc. Routes - 9 new photos

Delaware
I-295
- 5 new photos and a video
US 301 - 12 new photos
DE 896 - 8 new photos

Pennsylvania
US 1
- 27 new/updated Philly photos
PA 532 - New page with 9 photos and a video
PA 611 - 5 new/updated photos at US 1
PA 841 - New page with 7 photos
Fox St., Philadelphia - New page with 7 photos

New Jersey
I-76
- 4 updated WB photos
I-80 - Re-split pages, 4 new Netcong photos
I-295 - 9 new/updated photos
US 46 between NJ 23 and 20 - 5 new photos
US 202 - 2 new white square CR shield photos
US 206 - 20 new/updated photos with the 1792 bridge
NJ 42 - 2 new photos
NJ 62 - 3 Totowa Ave. Bridge (former 62) photos
NJ 73 north of NJ Turnpike - 2 new NB photos at Fellowship Rd.
NJ 165 - 13 new/updated photos
NJ 179 - 18 new Lambertville photos
NJ 413 - 5 new/updated photos
CR 510 east of Morristown - 9 new/updated photos
CR 533 - 7 new/updated photos
CR 546 - 8 new/updated photos
CR 560 - 5 new Dingman's Bridge photos
CR 583 - 6 Stony Brook Bridge photos
Bergen Co. - 2 new white square S- route photos
Camden CR 753 - 14 new/updated photos
Hunterdon Co. - 10 new Lambertville photos
Passaic Co. - 2 new photos
Salem Co. - 2 new old white sign photos
Sussex Co. - 7 new photos
Links

There are links below that pertain to certain states; for example, nycroads.com involves NY, CT, and NJ. Because this is for more than one state, I include it here, but keep in mind that these very informative links will not be found on the various pages. The exceptions are Steve Anderson and Jeff Kitsko; I link from specific routes of mine to specific routes of theirs.

INTERNATIONAL
Mark Furqueron's Highway Page

NATIONAL
James Lin's Highway Route Markers
Mark O'Neil's Open Road (signs and signals)
Route termini on State-ends.com
The Historical Marker Database
Historic Aerials (back to the 1930's)
Scott Steeves' and Cameron Bevers' CanHighways
AARoads - Interstate, US, and state routes
Robert Droz's US-Highways.com
US Highway Ends
Mark Roberts' US Highways Signs and Sights
Gribblenation.com
The Floodgap Roadgap
Eric Smith's Expressway Site (featuring Lou Corsaro)
Rachel Aschmann's Traveling
The misc.transport.road newsgroup

REGIONAL
A. J. Froggie's Roads
H. B. Elkin's Millenium Highway
Scott Oglesby's (Kurumi's) Roads
Steve Anderson's NYC (area), Boston (area), Philadelphia (area), and DC (area) Roads
Scott Kozel's Roads to the Future
Barry L. Camp's Roadpix
Dan Vincent's Roads and Highways of the Pioneer Valley
Shady Jay's New England Turnpikes
Corey Dukes' Delmarva Highways
Gene Van's My Land of Misery
Jake Wimberley's Kennessippi Roads
Chris Geelhart's Northern Plains Highways
J.P. Kirby's the506.com (NB, NS, ME)
James Teresco's Travel and Other Pictures
Great Lakes Highways (currently under construction)
Below are three interchanges I've drawn recently, in order of complexity. The first, green one is a 10-way interchange (four through highways, two beginning there). The second (black, red, and blue) has 11 spokes coming out of the hub: five through highways and one starting in the interchange. Finally, the third, dark blue one has 6 through highways for a total of 12 spokes, taking up more than half of the 9" x 12" page.


Gas getting expensive? - on Skyline Drive in Virginia, courtesy Lou Corsaro, unedited

Over to non-roads photos (last chance!)
Thank You:

For the use of their cars: HNTB Corporation, Michael Bernstein, Lou Corsaro, Shawn De Cesari, Dan Garnell, Dave Grabiner, Doug Kerr, Matthew Kleiman, John Krakoff, Rachel Kramer, Dylan Lainhart, Adam Prince, Kelly W., Cullen Wassell, and of course my parents.

For information: Dave Bielski, Tim Brown, Scott Colbert, Lou Corsaro, Shawn De Cesari, H.B. Elkins, Jon Foxart, Adam Froehlig, LJ Johnson, Doug Kerr, John Krakoff, Charles Lamb, Jeremy Lance, J.T. Legg, Sean P. McCool, Dan Moraseski (SPUI), J.P. Nasiatka, Alex Nitzman, Charlie O'Reilly, Brian Powell, Michael Summa, Mike Traverse, Oscar Voss, Jake Warner, Jeff Weiner, Dave Wisneski

For the use of their cameras: HNTB Corporation, Port Authority of NY/NJ, Lou Corsaro, Matthew Kleiman, Kelly W.

For photos: Steve Anderson, David Backlin, David Barnett, Weill Casey, Chris Curley, Scott Colbert, HNTB Corporation (and Kevin Sylvester), Lou Corsaro, Steven Demetropoulos, Bill Donovan, H.B. Elkins, Bryan Farr, Dan Garnell, William Gresham, Vik Gupta, Geoffrey Hatchard, Averill Hecht, Christy Hodgson, Jason Ilyes, Costa Ioannidis, Ian Karlin, Doug Kerr, Matthew Kleiman, John Krakoff, Jeremy Lance, Shawn Latta, Chris Lawson, Brian LeBlanc, J.T. Legg, Chris Mason, Sean P. McCool, Bill Mitchell, Dan Moraseski (SPUI), Adam Moss, J.P. Nasiatka, Mike Natale, Scott Nazelrod, Charlie O'Reilly, Chris Pangilinan, Rich Piehl, Michal Polák, "Roadgeek9", Anthony Simon, Frank Simon, C.C. Slater (for Michael Summa photos), Scott Sullivan, Michael Summa, Doug Swift, Mike Traverse, Dan Vincent, Kelly W., Jake Warner, Cullen Wassell, Chris Eddie Wilson. Also, Douwe Osinga, for providing the map graphic on this page (at douweosinga.com).

Special thanks: SPUI, for introducing me to misc.transport.road and jump-starting this hobby. Shawn De Cesari, for having the car to take me around during my college years. Averill Hecht and Michael Summa, for contributing historical photos dating back to the 1970's.