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Route 66 Centennial · 1926 – 2026

NEON MILE

The Mother Road, after dark.
Concept · live preview
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The corridor, after dark Still litRestored
The live night-drive renders here in production, on the Mapbox token — the corridor, lit sign by lit sign.
Mapbox ★GL JSDirections APICorridor line layerMap MatchingData-driven neon styling

Same data as Echoes in Neon — filtered to the Route 66 corridor and to the signs that still light up. A filter, not a fork.

The overview

What this becomes.

The goal

Neon Mile is the after-dark drive down Route 66 — the crossing point where the neon archive's subject meets the trip planner's structure. One glowing corridor, timed to the Centennial, routed stop to stop, showing only the signs that still burn.

It's the same Habitus tileset that powers Echoes in Neon, filtered to the corridor and to lit and restored — proof that one dataset becomes a different product with a filter, not a rebuild.

Where it is today

Neon Mile is the earliest of the three — a concept. The map above is a live preview on the shared data; real routing, map-matching to the road, and the dusk-to-dark scrubber wire in across the build. You're seeing the idea, lit up early.
What it is

A dusk-to-dark drive.

The collection

One road, three ways.

Echoes in Neon

The national archive — every sign across the century, lit / restored / relocated / lost. The subject Neon Mile draws from.

See the archive →

Get Your Kicks

The daytime planner — the whole roadside, routed into a real drive. The structure Neon Mile runs on, after dark.

See the planner →