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06-25-2017, 12:22 AM | #1 | ||
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Another silly idea from congress.
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Mileage markers all over the country measured from the SOUTH side not the West? Eisenhower's trip over the Lincoln Highway which ran from NYC to 'Frisco starts on the WEST side, not the North? Waiter, I'll have what they're having, please. link
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06-25-2017, 07:27 AM | #2 |
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In the 1920s the American highway & freeway system was nothing like we've grown used to a hundred years later. Hawaii was still decades from statehood, although Missouri and such were no longer still considered the Wild West. Back in the 20s, they probably thought places like LA, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle were going to remain provincial mudholes.
Took me until my early 30s to figure out how we number our highway exits--the whole "numbers go up as you go north on odd-numbered roads like Interstate 5, east on even-numbered roads like Interstates 2, 84, and 90." And "what they're having" was probably either boiled (solid food) or strained through the nearest available cloth of the right weave (liquids). Jazz was barely legal, premature babies in incubators were on display at Coney Island, and it was a bit early, iirc from other entries about Americans and travel, for the hardcore promotion of family travel as a hobby. That came with some big freeway improvement act, I think after WW2. |
06-25-2017, 09:18 AM | #3 |
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"Took me until my early 30s to figure out how we number our highway exits--the whole "numbers go up as you go north on odd-numbered roads like Interstate 5, east on even-numbered roads like Interstates 2, 84, and 90."
Well I never heard that before, ie 95 (NJTPK) thru NJ goes up in numbers as you go toward the GWB, seems to work |
06-25-2017, 12:48 PM | #4 |
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Route 66 here has exit numbers that correspond to the mileage marker they are located at. So exit 12 isn't followed by exit 13. The next exit happens to be exit 21, but you know the distance is nine miles.
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They had to put up signs, "Exit 9*, formerly exit 5, 1 mile". *miles
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06-25-2017, 07:28 PM | #6 |
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We've travelled fairly extensively through most states, and it seems there's just a few small pockets in the northeast still with freeway exits numbered sequentially rather than by mileage from their origin within the state. British motorway exits are numbered sequentially, so I found it odd at first, but very quickly grew to prefer the by-mileage system because it's so easy to know how far you are from anywhere. I also got used to the house numbering system, although I don't find as much need for that. (The more digits you have, the further away you are from the center of the city, your next-door-neighbor will typically have a house number at least 4 higher than yours, in case plots are split and more houses added.... but there are so many exceptions I find it pretty meaningless now. e.g. new cutesy neighborhoods being build in cornfields miles out of town are getting houses with 1 & 2 digit numbers instead of 5 or 6 because it's more attractive to prospective buyers....)
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Makes sense on the interstate, since they're federal highways.
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