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Signs for Interstate 55 North and Interstate 69 North are seen at a light at the I-55 exit on Church Road in Southaven, Miss., on Monday, June 17, 2024. Phase one is just the beginning of I-55's ...
Interstate 55 (I-55) is a major north–south Interstate Highway that serves the middle of the United States. It runs 963.5 miles (1,550.6 km) from I-10 in Laplace, Louisiana —about 25 miles (40 km) west of New Orleans —to U.S. Highway 41 (US 41) in Chicago, Illinois .
I-55 at Louisiana state line near Osyka: I-55 at Tennessee state line near Southaven — — I-59: 169: 272 I-59 at Louisiana state line (East Pearl River) near Nicholson: I-20/I-59 at Alabama state line near Kewanee — — I-69: 23.390: 37.643 MS 304/MS 713 east of Banks: I-55 north of Hernando — — Present highway co-signed with I-55 from ...
Hazlehurst is a city in and the county seat of Copiah County, Mississippi, United States, [2] located about 30 miles (48 km) south of the state capital Jackson along Interstate 55. The population was 4,009 at the 2010 census. [3] It is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its economy is based on agriculture, particularly tomatoes ...
The Mississippi Highway Patrol said the crash occurred on Interstate 55 southbound, near mile marker 152. MHP Greenwood posted via social media that "traffic is routed to the right shoulder on the ...
The last dust storm to hit central Illinois happened in 2017, causing the shut down eastbound Interstate 72 at the Morgan-Sangamon county line and eastbound Illinois 104 at Auburn. One death was ...
Things changed when the state legislature launched the $1.3 billion Four-Lane Highway Program of 1987. [2] This program gradually allowed for the funding of over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of four-lane highway statewide. In 2002, the Four-Lane Highway Program was expanded in what was known as Vision 21.
When it was realized that a national highway system was needed, the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 provided for a highway replacing the old US 66 which I-55 filled. I-55 was originally constructed in the 1960s, to extend a section of US 66 between I-294 and Gardner which had been converted into a freeway and had Interstate signage installed in 1960.