{"id":992908,"date":"2008-09-20T22:22:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T05:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidjcorcoran.com\/highways\/blog\/?page_id=908"},"modified":"2008-09-24T19:38:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T02:38:45","slug":"us-route-2-us-97-spur-to-sr-172","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=992908","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Route 2, US-97 SPUR to SR 172"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/2\/97SPURto172\/1.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MP:<\/strong>140.36<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-2 and SR 97 Orondo Spur Rd, Orondo, Douglas Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield after the spur and the mainline and all that<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/2\/97SPURto172\/2.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MP: <\/strong>149.55<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: S Central Ave and W Locust St, Waterville<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">US-2 jogs like crazy through Waterville<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/2\/97SPURto172\/3.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MP: <\/strong>149.65<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: W Locust St and S Chelan Ave, Waterville<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One more turn, we&#8217;re headed north now<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/2\/97SPURto172\/4.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MP: <\/strong>149.73<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>; S Chelan Ave and E Poplar St, Waterville<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">US-2 will turn right here pretty soon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/2\/97SPURto172\/5.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MP: <\/strong>149.78<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: S Chelan St and E Poplar St, Waterville<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">US-2 turns right to finally head out of Waterville<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/2\/97SPURto172\/6.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MP: <\/strong>150.14<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: E Poplar St and N Jefferson St, Waterville<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield at the end of Waterville<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/2\/97SPURto172\/7.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MP: <\/strong>162.83<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-2 and Rd C NW, Douglas Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Junction SR 172 coming up. SR 172 serves no real purpose except to give Mansfield a state highway- and it&#8217;s doubtful whether Mansfield needs a state highway. I wouldn&#8217;t be shocked to see SR 172 decommissioned (at least the segment from Mansfield to US-2) with the next round of budget cuts<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/2\/97SPURto172\/8.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"796\" height=\"447\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MP: <\/strong>163.16<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: US-2 and Rd C NW, Douglas Cty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn left for SR 172 which heads north a nd then hooks west<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/120px-US_2.svg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=992909\">E to SR 17<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=992907\">W to US-97<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/120px-WA-172.svg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=992930\">E to SR 17<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/120px-SR_97_SPUR.svg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"61\" height=\"90\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/?p=992512\">W to US-97<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MP:140.36 Location: US-2 and SR 97 Orondo Spur Rd, Orondo, Douglas Cty Reassurance shield after the spur and the mainline and all that MP: 149.55 Location: S Central Ave and W Locust St, Waterville US-2 jogs like crazy through Waterville MP: 149.65 Location: W Locust St and S Chelan Ave, Waterville One more turn, we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=992908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}