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The Last Stoplight on the Interstate Highway System — Video Dispatch

by Clay Jenkinson / Tuesday, August 06 2024 / Published in Dispatches from the Road

Wallace, Idaho, is a town in the northern neck of Idaho locked into a very narrow valley and — arguably — locked into the past. When I first went through in the 1980s, traffic was still shunted off I-90 and onto old U.S. 10 through downtown. The last stoplight on the entire interstate highway system was located in Wallace. When the elegant latticework of the I-90 viaduct was completed in 1991, Wallace held a funeral for the last stoplight, now safely protected in the Wallace Mining Museum.

Here’s my brief report:


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