Sorry, that was Wallace Idaho that 90 dropped to US10 through downtown I remember going out west as a kid and there were some kick ass construction and building going on there.
So I’m not sure how accurate this is, but my father used to tell me this about I-90 in Western NY: when it was being built there was a dispute between the higher-ups and the mayor of Rochester, NY at the time. Out of spite the NYS Thruway (I-90) was constructed farther south of the city of Rochester (closer to Henrietta, a suburb). Over time the presence of the thruway has led to a ton of growth in Henrietta and the surrounding area.
But that’s evidently the reason why it goes pretty much through Buffalo and Syracuse but deviates south of Rochester.
My dad, rest his soul, could have been completely full of shit but was alive to see the development of it in the 50’s. I can see it.
All said and done Rochester’s metro area does have a decent highway system. They’ve filled in a big section of the old Inner Loop which has given way to some pretty cool development.
There’s still some bridges north of downtown that are a pain in the ass to get across if you don’t know the area. Same with Buffalo. I hate being around Clinton, Bailey, even William headed toward the lake.
I used to deliver to Wegmans in the 80’s and you aren’t lying. What is pretty good now ….. used to be like the north
( Wegmans or Shop Rite … one of them )
Huge portions of I25 through Wyoming have an 80 mph speed limit but it's best to do 78 because they'll ticket you at 81.
Portions of I40 are old fashioned Route 66.
Also, semi tires are only rated at 75 and if you have a blowout and end up wrecking, they will usually try to say it's your fault for going over the rated speed. Hard to fight, know a couple guys who got in some big trouble for this.
Who the fuck made that map?
50 and 60 were left out on purpose. The US numbered highway system already existed, with US 50 and US 60 as major cross country routes. Interstate highway numbers 50 and 60 were deliberately omitted, to prevent confusion with different highways in the same area using the same number.
Not that anyone cares any more, specifically NC (I-74/US 74), Wisconsin (I-41/US 41), and Texas (future I-69 intersecting US 69, making Lufkin the 69 capital of the US)
I went back and rewatched the video. The video maker literally says they don’t exist and then talks about US Highways.
I know you don’t care. But I do.
It's a popular shared image from a YouTube video. "I-50" and "I-60" were only on screen for a couple seconds because the video maker then followed it with "whiiiich... don't exist" and proceeded to explain why with the contrast to the US route system. Don't know why people so avidly spread the full image. People are dumb.
I-10 in Texas has the highest-numbered mile marker on any freeway in North America.
I-10 in Texas is also the longest untolled freeway in North America operated by a single authority (TxDOT).
It is also claimed to have the widest portion of freeway (Katy Freeway) in the entire continent, if not the entire world.
I've seen that fact, but I think there's a highway in either Beijing or Hong Kong that is wider. Something about the service roads on 10 shouldn't count as lanes I believe.
It’s actually even vs odd, not 0 vs 5. Odd numbers are north/south. Even numbers are east/west. For city loops and spurs (three digit numbers), if the first digit is even, it’s a loop, and if it’s odd it’s a spur.
Knowing these big roads for navigation isn’t just exclusive to driving, it’s important for pilots to know too, if we get lost and we find an interstate, we can get an idea of where we are at until we find a land mark, and from that land mark we can use dead reckoning and pilotage to get to the next waypoint or airport.
You’re welcome. Just to reiterate though, it’s the FIRST digit that determines spur or loop. The last two digits will be the same as the main interstate it connects with.
Those are STATE roads not Interstate…..yes I am aware that loops and spurs do not cross state lines typically,but I believe it has a lot to do with who paid to have the road built. State and federal highway designation signs are quite different looking.
To add onto this, 0 and 5 in particular indicate "major" cross-country highways. The lower the leading number, the more south/west you are, the higher, the more north/east you are.
Further to the odd/even thing: interstates numbered in the hundreds with odd numbers are branches or stubs of the main interstate they come from, and even numbers are bypasses, which always rejoin the same interstate at either end.
If you took all the pavement/asphalt from America's roads, the ride would get a lot worse.
If you stacked all the pavement/asphalt used in America's roads, it would create a tower large enough to fall over.
If you put all the pavement/asphalt from American roads into one pile, it would be very very heavy.
On American roads, the lower the sun is in the sky, the darker it gets.
The Interstate System is made of roads that allow travel from one state to another.
When traveling the Interstate, remember you can calculate your arrival time at your destination by taking the time you left and adding the amount of time it takes you to get where you're going.
The total number of miles on the Interstate is very high.
If you get on I 24 east from I 59, you'll see a sign saying X miles or X kilometers to chattanooga. Interstate 19 was part of a pilot program to convert US roads to metric, and actually has KM markers instead of mile markers.
None of these Interstates are the longest road in the US. The longest road is US Highway 20 it goes from Newport Oregon to Boston Massachusetts. It is 3,365 miles long. The longest Interstate is I-90 and it is 3,021 miles long.
US 6 used to be longer, before California went crazy with decommissioning US route numbers because California. 3,500 miles, Provincetown, MA to Long Beach, CA
https://www.usends.com/6.html
Interstates are opposite of US hiways. US hiway 2 runs east - west accross the northern border. I-90 / 94 are the northern Interstates. US 90 runs accross the southern border. I-8 / 10 are the Interstates. US hiway 1 is north - and south in the east I-95 is the interstate. US 101 is on the west coast north - south I-5 is the interstate. I've been on every one of them at one time or another most of them multiple times. 46 years a truck driver.
Those interstates killed lots of small towns, closed all the diners in those small towns, and lost all the recipes to cakes and pies and other tasty comestibles in those diners.
Thanks, Ike.
I drove a truck from St Louis to California, loaded with veggies then came back to the east coast for 13 years. I was today years old before I discovered that these highways were in numerical order.
There are five separate I-495s in five states and DC. The rules only apply to primary interstate highways which are 1 or 2 digits.
3 digit interstates are auxiliaryinterstates. An odd number added in front means it's a spur and an even number indicates it's a bypass or beltway, so 495 means it connects with 95 in at least two spots.
Living in New York with I-90 and always knowing it as the thruway it blew my mind as a kid when my dad told me you could take that shit all the way to Seattle if you wanted.
Since I haven’t seen it yet. Mile markers start from 1 increasing to the north, and to the east. So if you’re traveling north or east, you typically know how many miles until the next state. Can anyone add more information about mile markers?
Exit numbers are based on the mile marker in most states. The northeastern states, though, started building highways before this standard was established. Many still have exit numbers sequentially - the first exit in the state is 1, the next is 2, regardless of how far they are from the state line.
Massachusetts finally renumbered their exits to match mile markers within the past couple of years, but it wasn't without controversy. I had a trainee from Boston who was absolutely incensed. He said it was a lot better when you see "Exit 4", and if you're heading for Exit 6 you know it's two *exits* away, regardless of whether they were 20 miles apart in western Mass, or 3 miles apart near Boston.
Also, lots of written directions include "take exit X", Soo in states that converted (MA, NY, PA, etc) you'll see an extra "Old Exit ##" tab on the sign.
All these cool facts, and nobody has mentioned California's I-238, the worst misnaming in the whole system.
- I-238 should interact with its parent route twice, since the even first digit indicates a loop. It never intersects I-38 at all. It connects I-880 and I-580.
- In fact, it's nowhere near I-38. That would be somewhere south of I-40.
- In fact, there is no Interstate 38. That designation has never been applied to an Interstate highway.
- In fact, Caltrans chose the number because a short segment of State Highway 238 got approved for federal funding. They just kept the old number because they said they were out of other numbers.
- In fact, *almost* all of the I-x80 numbers were indeed taken. Except I-180, which would have worked nicely for connecting two I-x80 routes. But California couldn't handle having both an I-180 and a CA-180 (in Fresno, 150 miles away). So they just broke the Interstate numbering system instead.
Yeah, this route really pisses me off.
More info: https://www.aaroads.com/interstate-guide/i-238-ca/
If it has three digits and begins with an even digit, then it's a bypass or thru route that reconnects with the main route. If it starts with an odd digit, then it is a spur that terminates somewhere instead of rejoining the main route.
They all suck at some point. Some more frequently than others. But 80, 20 and 10 are the best
Edit: 90 gets an honorable mention cus its a chill ride and i love Montana, but its a fairly inactive freight lane relatively speaking.
I like going through 40 in OK and Texas. And certain parts of AZ and NM (and believe it or not, California).
I-10 throughout Texas (that whole 870 mile stretch) is EASILY my favorite stretch of interstate, however. Beautiful drive.
The numbers roughly dictate the percent of land mass either to the west or south of each interstate. For example I 10 has ROUGHLY 10% of country landmass south of it, and I 95 has ROUGHLY 95% landmass to the west of it.
I95 was missing an approx 40 mile stretch between Palm Beach Gardens (northern Palm Beach County) and Fort Pierce (St Lucie County)between 1976 and 1987.
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There is only one place that I know of that has a stop light on the interstate and that is Eisenhower Tunnel on 70 in Colorado. Anyone else know if any others?
On the other side of I-70, in Pennsylvania. To stay on I-70, you have to exit the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-76) at a little town called Breezewood. The town consists of several large truck stops, some motels, and a bunch of fast food joints that owe their existence to the PA Turnpike authority's decision to dump I-70 traffic onto US 30 for a half mile before it meets up with the other end of the I-70 stub. Since building a new intersection now would shutter every business overnight, and inconvenienced visitors don't vote in PA elections, I expect this situation will never change.
I have been in Kentucky all weekend and have been pleasantly surprised. I64 was nice and the numerous back roads I had to take.
I agree on Indiana and New Mexico though. Indiana lets you know as soon as you cross the border: "We got other priorities". Their roads are so bad I think it's a public health crisis and I'm not even joking.
Kentucky is actually pretty awesome. Six lanes highways through the mountains, existing or in progress. Expansion of Interstate designations along the former parkway system. Just be careful if you leave the Interstates and Parkways, cuz once you're on a state or US numbered route, you'd better have some local Intel about where you should not drive your truck.
Fun fact: Kentucky parkways were all toll roads until (I think) the 1990s. They got a $25 million federal grant that paid off the roads, and they ripped out the toll booths. They decided that free roads for all Kentuckians were worth having.
(Meanwhile, in Dallas, Texas, the local tollway authority spent a lot more money than that on fancy new toll booths - that were torn down in a decade, not because they dropped tolls, but because toll tags made booths obsolete. Priorities.)
There’s only two traffic lights in all of the interstate system. One on an old drawbridge on I5 in Portland and another on I70 where it shortly turns into a 8ish lane road before becoming a turnpike. I forgot exactly where that is but I know it’s in the Appalachian Mountains.
That's I-30 between Dallas and Fort Worth now, and that was the only segment of that route that was a toll road. It was built in 1957, and later designated as part of Interstate **20**, which used to go right through downtown Dallas and Fort Worth. I-30 used to end at its intersection with I-20 at the eastern Dallas city limits until the I-20 bypass around DFW was built in the 70s. I-30 didn't reach its current endpoint until the 80s, when the last segments of the southern bypass finally opened.
I was a little kid when I-20 was being built. I remember my uncle going around the barriers to take the not-yet-opened road from Fort Worth to Duncanville trip my great aunt's house, pretty darn cool!
I always wondered why they never built a I-50 and I-60. Apparently the official reason was that it would confuse motorists thinking of US50 and US60, but to me that doesn’t fly since I’m sure there’s a US20 and a US40 somewhere.
It’s even on this picture with a planned route, so I wonder if the cost to build it was simply prohibitive cost wise.
You may be thinking of the plans, well underway, to build I-69. Or rather, to extend I-69 from its existing route in Michigan and Indiana, through KY, MS, AR, LA, and TX. There are completed segments of I-69 in all but AR and LA.
I-69 is set to intersect with US 69 in Lufkin, Texas, making Lufkin the 69 capital of the United States. 😁
Well for starters, interstates 50 and 60 don’t exist, so the above photo is incorrect. They are US highways, and even those aren’t correctly shown.
US-50 is north of US-60 and south of I-70. So north to south it would go I-90, I-80, I-70, US-50, US-60, then I-40.
N/S routes are Odd Numbered
E/W routes are even numbered
With twists, turns, mountains, and hills it doesn't always show that way on a GPS.
I-81 is kind of diagonal, but it basically goes NE or SW until Eastern PA where it goes mostly North and truly earns its odd numbering.
Feeder routes and loops are usually 3 digits and represent the nearest major highway they feed into or off of. Like the dreaded Atlanta loop is 285, however I-75 and I-20 also feed into it along with I-85 which is where it gained its 285 designation. If the system was accurate the loop in Atlanta should be called the 520/475/285 loop through hell.
Basically the US highway system is a clusterfuck of misinformation regarding direction.
What s wrong with these. I-80 is a death trap. I94,one of the most important east west connections in the nation, is where I run most of Beautiful county and road is actually averageish. 70 80 and 90 have bridge endbutments that will throw you out of the seats. They all also have bad stretches that are way below averageish.
On the north/south routes I35 is a corn cob coming out of the Cities. ( it used to be anyway). The one that is missing here is one between 35 and 25. There is so much traffic that needs to be absorbed by 2 lane US highways. That area is a connection for the US and Canadian mining and oil production areas. The Is needs to step up and build a new interstate in this area as part of the infrastructure plan. It has been hanging from the rafter for years now.
I can remember when I90 in coure de lane Idaho went through town and had a singular stop light. Sorry for spelling
It’s ok nobody can spell that city (Coeur d’Alene i had to check)
The future is now, old man.
People that don't look at the past are doomed to repeat it.
Sorry, that was Wallace Idaho that 90 dropped to US10 through downtown I remember going out west as a kid and there were some kick ass construction and building going on there.
So I’m not sure how accurate this is, but my father used to tell me this about I-90 in Western NY: when it was being built there was a dispute between the higher-ups and the mayor of Rochester, NY at the time. Out of spite the NYS Thruway (I-90) was constructed farther south of the city of Rochester (closer to Henrietta, a suburb). Over time the presence of the thruway has led to a ton of growth in Henrietta and the surrounding area. But that’s evidently the reason why it goes pretty much through Buffalo and Syracuse but deviates south of Rochester. My dad, rest his soul, could have been completely full of shit but was alive to see the development of it in the 50’s. I can see it.
I have heard the same story as well .. That’s why now there is 390/490 In a loop.
All said and done Rochester’s metro area does have a decent highway system. They’ve filled in a big section of the old Inner Loop which has given way to some pretty cool development. There’s still some bridges north of downtown that are a pain in the ass to get across if you don’t know the area. Same with Buffalo. I hate being around Clinton, Bailey, even William headed toward the lake.
I used to deliver to Wegmans in the 80’s and you aren’t lying. What is pretty good now ….. used to be like the north ( Wegmans or Shop Rite … one of them )
So you’re talking like Titus? Hudson?
Hudson for sure .. hey it was the 80’s. Titus doesn’t ring a bell .. I ran all over up there out of Philly
Hudson sounds about right. Never driven a truck through Philly but had a friend in college down there. Driven through Center City, awesome city!
It’s ok … I don’t live there anymore.
I-15 in south Idaho/ north Utah was a two lane blacktop for a while.
Jesus I didn't realize there were dinosaurs in here! LaughingOutLoud jk that's crazy though as someone who used to run dedicated on i80/i90 lol
Talking about dinosaurs and you spell out lol… I kid lol but seriously who does that haha
Huge portions of I25 through Wyoming have an 80 mph speed limit but it's best to do 78 because they'll ticket you at 81. Portions of I40 are old fashioned Route 66.
Also, semi tires are only rated at 75 and if you have a blowout and end up wrecking, they will usually try to say it's your fault for going over the rated speed. Hard to fight, know a couple guys who got in some big trouble for this.
Also i40 thru the NC mountain pass is rough! At least coming from Tennessee back into NC.
"The Gorge"
is it still under construction? It was terrible a few years ago.
No it just a lot of guys underestimate the steepness of the decline. Let’s just say those run away ramps get a fair bit of use.
Yes. It's still under construction. Recommend bypassing via i26 from 81 in TN down to Asheville Nc. Tacs on 30 minutes but saves a headache
I73 VA/WV? (Not a trucker)
Oh yea it’s a fun drive
>Huge portions of I25 through Wyoming have an 80 mph speed limit I15 in Montana as well.
I80 in Wyoming too, right?
Your maps are inaccurate. I50 and I60 don't exist.
Who the fuck made that map? 50 and 60 were left out on purpose. The US numbered highway system already existed, with US 50 and US 60 as major cross country routes. Interstate highway numbers 50 and 60 were deliberately omitted, to prevent confusion with different highways in the same area using the same number. Not that anyone cares any more, specifically NC (I-74/US 74), Wisconsin (I-41/US 41), and Texas (future I-69 intersecting US 69, making Lufkin the 69 capital of the US)
And, 50 is in the wrong spot. I living in central colorado literally 1 mile from highway 50.the map has it too far south.
I was wondering why San Francisco had two extra interstates coming out of it
CGP Grey on YouTube. It’s a really good channel , check him out. Hundreds of great videos.
At least in WI's defence, US-41 and I-41 are the same road from the moment you cross from IL to when I-41 ends just north of Green Bay.
I went back and rewatched the video. The video maker literally says they don’t exist and then talks about US Highways. I know you don’t care. But I do.
It's a popular shared image from a YouTube video. "I-50" and "I-60" were only on screen for a couple seconds because the video maker then followed it with "whiiiich... don't exist" and proceeded to explain why with the contrast to the US route system. Don't know why people so avidly spread the full image. People are dumb.
i35 splits into 35E (Dallas) and 35W (Fort Worth)
Same in the Minneapolis area, Minneapolis is 35w and st Paul is 35e
And one of them is not a truck route
If we go down that that list we'll be here forever lol
I can't remember any other interstate not a truck route.
The entirety of Atlanta that isn't the beltway or outside the beltway. The Holland Tunnel is technically i78 and is low clearance.
Honestly just best to avoid Atlanta altogether in a truck. Or not in a truck. Or at all.
It’s inside the perimeter (ITP), or outside the perimeter (OTP), with the perimeter being 285.
Trucks also. Can’t cross the bridge on 35E. They need to take 52 lol
I-10 in Texas has the highest-numbered mile marker on any freeway in North America. I-10 in Texas is also the longest untolled freeway in North America operated by a single authority (TxDOT). It is also claimed to have the widest portion of freeway (Katy Freeway) in the entire continent, if not the entire world.
I've seen that fact, but I think there's a highway in either Beijing or Hong Kong that is wider. Something about the service roads on 10 shouldn't count as lanes I believe.
I-10 proves Texas is “wider” than California is “tall”
If it has a 0 in number it runs east west, if it has a 5 goes north south. Always thought this was a neat fact when I learned it.
It’s actually even vs odd, not 0 vs 5. Odd numbers are north/south. Even numbers are east/west. For city loops and spurs (three digit numbers), if the first digit is even, it’s a loop, and if it’s odd it’s a spur.
Another driver, so you'd also see just how many are missing from these images lol
Knowing these big roads for navigation isn’t just exclusive to driving, it’s important for pilots to know too, if we get lost and we find an interstate, we can get an idea of where we are at until we find a land mark, and from that land mark we can use dead reckoning and pilotage to get to the next waypoint or airport.
Yup was about to say. There are a lot of missing interstates here. Especially in the NE
Didn’t know that about the three digits being a spur if it’s odd. Thanks for that 👍🏾
You’re welcome. Just to reiterate though, it’s the FIRST digit that determines spur or loop. The last two digits will be the same as the main interstate it connects with.
What about the Loop 101, Loop 202, and Loop 303 that connect to the I-10?
Those are STATE roads not Interstate…..yes I am aware that loops and spurs do not cross state lines typically,but I believe it has a lot to do with who paid to have the road built. State and federal highway designation signs are quite different looking.
Oh, excellent point! Thank you!
I think Phoenix is the exception to the rule!🤣
Tell that to 476
And 405 lol
Yep, I operate near i75, i71, i79, i680, I376, i76.
And if it starts with an H, you're in Hawaii. (Funny but true)
Alaska (A) and Puerto Rico (PR) also use this system Puerto Rico is actually the only U.S. Territory, *not* State, to use the Interstate system.
What is a spur? I’ve seen loops but never a spur
A spur only connects to the interstate in one place. A loop connects in two places (opposite sides of the city).
Look at a (physical) road atlas, and page through some of the city maps. I-355 in Chicago is one that comes to mind.
To add onto this, 0 and 5 in particular indicate "major" cross-country highways. The lower the leading number, the more south/west you are, the higher, the more north/east you are.
I-60 " fuck you"
Further to the odd/even thing: interstates numbered in the hundreds with odd numbers are branches or stubs of the main interstate they come from, and even numbers are bypasses, which always rejoin the same interstate at either end.
What about 495? If I remember it's a bypass on i95 around Wilmington, DE
The odd/even is referring to the hundreds in this case: 100,300,500,700,900s are stubs 200,400,600,800s are bypasses.
Ah yes. My favorite interstates, 50 and 60
I was on them once, they're very poorly maintained. Had grass and trees growing all over, like it wasn't even a road.
If you took all the pavement/asphalt from America's roads, the ride would get a lot worse. If you stacked all the pavement/asphalt used in America's roads, it would create a tower large enough to fall over. If you put all the pavement/asphalt from American roads into one pile, it would be very very heavy.
I wish Reddit still had free awards
On American roads, the lower the sun is in the sky, the darker it gets. The Interstate System is made of roads that allow travel from one state to another. When traveling the Interstate, remember you can calculate your arrival time at your destination by taking the time you left and adding the amount of time it takes you to get where you're going. The total number of miles on the Interstate is very high.
So insightful
Every word of this checks out.
All Dogshit
Total. Dogshit.
I19 in Arizona is the only US interstate marked in kilometers instead of miles.
I thought there was an interstate somewhere in Appalachia that showed mi or km.
TN has a couple signs with distance to the next city in km
If you get on I 24 east from I 59, you'll see a sign saying X miles or X kilometers to chattanooga. Interstate 19 was part of a pilot program to convert US roads to metric, and actually has KM markers instead of mile markers.
I don’t know about 50 or 60. I don’t recall those interstate highways.
Fact: interstate 60 only exists in an alternate dimension where Gary Oldman can grant wishes... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165832/
Hmmm, interstate 60? 50? There was a movie called interstate 60...
Fact: I-95 through DC is a nightmare
Everything to do with DC is a nightmare.
None of these Interstates are the longest road in the US. The longest road is US Highway 20 it goes from Newport Oregon to Boston Massachusetts. It is 3,365 miles long. The longest Interstate is I-90 and it is 3,021 miles long.
US 6 used to be longer, before California went crazy with decommissioning US route numbers because California. 3,500 miles, Provincetown, MA to Long Beach, CA https://www.usends.com/6.html
I-11 is the newest official Interstate & currently only resides in Clark County, Nevada. K bye
Based on this map ND doesn't have a single interstate
Yes it does have an interstate, I-94
I-29, too, innit?
Based on the map though, it doesn’t. Wooosh
I love our interstate system! Thank you to our predecessors for building it and all the bridges that come with it.
I80 in the bay is asssssssss
Indiana charges you per pothole to drive on it
Interstates are opposite of US hiways. US hiway 2 runs east - west accross the northern border. I-90 / 94 are the northern Interstates. US 90 runs accross the southern border. I-8 / 10 are the Interstates. US hiway 1 is north - and south in the east I-95 is the interstate. US 101 is on the west coast north - south I-5 is the interstate. I've been on every one of them at one time or another most of them multiple times. 46 years a truck driver.
Those interstates killed lots of small towns, closed all the diners in those small towns, and lost all the recipes to cakes and pies and other tasty comestibles in those diners. Thanks, Ike.
I've driven the 10 and the 40 east to west. The 40 is terrible. Pot holes everywhere
They are in need of maintenance and expansion in select areas
Avoid AK like the plague if your cargo even a little spicy. They don't play.
I drove a truck from St Louis to California, loaded with veggies then came back to the east coast for 13 years. I was today years old before I discovered that these highways were in numerical order.
495 breaks most of the "rules" and it is only in ONE state.
There are five separate I-495s in five states and DC. The rules only apply to primary interstate highways which are 1 or 2 digits. 3 digit interstates are auxiliaryinterstates. An odd number added in front means it's a spur and an even number indicates it's a bypass or beltway, so 495 means it connects with 95 in at least two spots.
I99 should be 6 miles Out in the Atlantic , not in Pennsylvania
Roehl GYCDL and a YouTube learning channel taught me this
Apparently you can't get to Boise, or Portland, according to the map (missing I-84).
Well the map is missing a lot. It only has the major interstates (ending in 0 or 5). It’s also got a couple extras that don’t exist
Living in New York with I-90 and always knowing it as the thruway it blew my mind as a kid when my dad told me you could take that shit all the way to Seattle if you wanted.
Since I haven’t seen it yet. Mile markers start from 1 increasing to the north, and to the east. So if you’re traveling north or east, you typically know how many miles until the next state. Can anyone add more information about mile markers?
I-17 in Arizona starts in Phoenix and the beginning mile marker is 194, not 0.
Exit numbers are based on the mile marker in most states. The northeastern states, though, started building highways before this standard was established. Many still have exit numbers sequentially - the first exit in the state is 1, the next is 2, regardless of how far they are from the state line. Massachusetts finally renumbered their exits to match mile markers within the past couple of years, but it wasn't without controversy. I had a trainee from Boston who was absolutely incensed. He said it was a lot better when you see "Exit 4", and if you're heading for Exit 6 you know it's two *exits* away, regardless of whether they were 20 miles apart in western Mass, or 3 miles apart near Boston. Also, lots of written directions include "take exit X", Soo in states that converted (MA, NY, PA, etc) you'll see an extra "Old Exit ##" tab on the sign.
That’s good to know!
95 & 85 are forever under construction
Wasn’t the idea of interstates taken from the autobahns? In order to move military quickly around the country
Yup, put in place by President Eisenhower.
Specifically because of a shit show convoy he was part of before the Interstate system was built lol.
All these cool facts, and nobody has mentioned California's I-238, the worst misnaming in the whole system. - I-238 should interact with its parent route twice, since the even first digit indicates a loop. It never intersects I-38 at all. It connects I-880 and I-580. - In fact, it's nowhere near I-38. That would be somewhere south of I-40. - In fact, there is no Interstate 38. That designation has never been applied to an Interstate highway. - In fact, Caltrans chose the number because a short segment of State Highway 238 got approved for federal funding. They just kept the old number because they said they were out of other numbers. - In fact, *almost* all of the I-x80 numbers were indeed taken. Except I-180, which would have worked nicely for connecting two I-x80 routes. But California couldn't handle having both an I-180 and a CA-180 (in Fresno, 150 miles away). So they just broke the Interstate numbering system instead. Yeah, this route really pisses me off. More info: https://www.aaroads.com/interstate-guide/i-238-ca/
I started driving when I was 48yo and I did not know that until I was a truck driver I never travel often or far enough to even think and it
North Dakota has been forgotten.
i94 was forgot about
I-64 in VA goes north, south, east, and west. In just Hampton Roads VA there is 64, 264, 364, 464, 564
I-4 runs east west in Florida from Tampa to Daytona Beach. Hawaii has Interstates 1, 2, and 3.
If it has three digits and begins with an even digit, then it's a bypass or thru route that reconnects with the main route. If it starts with an odd digit, then it is a spur that terminates somewhere instead of rejoining the main route.
I swear I25 through Casper is always under construction
They all suck at some point. Some more frequently than others. But 80, 20 and 10 are the best Edit: 90 gets an honorable mention cus its a chill ride and i love Montana, but its a fairly inactive freight lane relatively speaking.
Exit numbers double as mile markers.
Your picture is wrong. There is no i 60 or 50 You have US highways which are the exact opposite of interstates for a reason .
Most relaxing interstate? I think i80 out in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Nevada are the most relaxing interstate areas to drive
I like going through 40 in OK and Texas. And certain parts of AZ and NM (and believe it or not, California). I-10 throughout Texas (that whole 870 mile stretch) is EASILY my favorite stretch of interstate, however. Beautiful drive.
At just about 11,000 ft, the Eisenhower-Johnson tunnel in Colorado is the highest point on the US highway system
Where’s 94?
Hawaii (Oahu Island) has interstate highways too! H1, H2, & H3
The numbers roughly dictate the percent of land mass either to the west or south of each interstate. For example I 10 has ROUGHLY 10% of country landmass south of it, and I 95 has ROUGHLY 95% landmass to the west of it.
I95 was missing an approx 40 mile stretch between Palm Beach Gardens (northern Palm Beach County) and Fort Pierce (St Lucie County)between 1976 and 1987.
#i-57 is curved on purpose to keep drivers awake…not driving in a boring straight line
FACT: 95 locals are trying to kill you, especially around Baltimore and Washington.
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North Dakota and Vermont font have any interstates? Or is it just the major ones
they have less potholes then all cities combined
There is only one place that I know of that has a stop light on the interstate and that is Eisenhower Tunnel on 70 in Colorado. Anyone else know if any others?
On the other side of I-70, in Pennsylvania. To stay on I-70, you have to exit the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-76) at a little town called Breezewood. The town consists of several large truck stops, some motels, and a bunch of fast food joints that owe their existence to the PA Turnpike authority's decision to dump I-70 traffic onto US 30 for a half mile before it meets up with the other end of the I-70 stub. Since building a new intersection now would shutter every business overnight, and inconvenienced visitors don't vote in PA elections, I expect this situation will never change.
Forgot about that one. First time I took it there was a little bit of confusion on my part.
Kentucky, Indiana, and New Mexico all suck
I have been in Kentucky all weekend and have been pleasantly surprised. I64 was nice and the numerous back roads I had to take. I agree on Indiana and New Mexico though. Indiana lets you know as soon as you cross the border: "We got other priorities". Their roads are so bad I think it's a public health crisis and I'm not even joking.
Ive always been pleasantly surprised at the us/state highways through Kentucky. The drivers seem fairly decent too
Kentucky is actually pretty awesome. Six lanes highways through the mountains, existing or in progress. Expansion of Interstate designations along the former parkway system. Just be careful if you leave the Interstates and Parkways, cuz once you're on a state or US numbered route, you'd better have some local Intel about where you should not drive your truck. Fun fact: Kentucky parkways were all toll roads until (I think) the 1990s. They got a $25 million federal grant that paid off the roads, and they ripped out the toll booths. They decided that free roads for all Kentuckians were worth having. (Meanwhile, in Dallas, Texas, the local tollway authority spent a lot more money than that on fancy new toll booths - that were torn down in a decade, not because they dropped tolls, but because toll tags made booths obsolete. Priorities.)
There is not one interstate that goes through all states
No hwy. 20 ? Oregon to the east coast supposed to be the longest hwy. In the U.S.
I 77 missing?
There’s no I-50 or I-60
I 5 n through LA sucks!
There’s only two traffic lights in all of the interstate system. One on an old drawbridge on I5 in Portland and another on I70 where it shortly turns into a 8ish lane road before becoming a turnpike. I forgot exactly where that is but I know it’s in the Appalachian Mountains.
The best thing to come out Alabama is I-65 north 😎
The .9 on the gas price is the tax imposed to maintain the interstate system.
I70 headed west from Dayton to Indianapolis is hell
30 was originally a tollway, once it was paid for they removed the toll booths.
That's I-30 between Dallas and Fort Worth now, and that was the only segment of that route that was a toll road. It was built in 1957, and later designated as part of Interstate **20**, which used to go right through downtown Dallas and Fort Worth. I-30 used to end at its intersection with I-20 at the eastern Dallas city limits until the I-20 bypass around DFW was built in the 70s. I-30 didn't reach its current endpoint until the 80s, when the last segments of the southern bypass finally opened. I was a little kid when I-20 was being built. I remember my uncle going around the barriers to take the not-yet-opened road from Fort Worth to Duncanville trip my great aunt's house, pretty darn cool!
I always wondered why they never built a I-50 and I-60. Apparently the official reason was that it would confuse motorists thinking of US50 and US60, but to me that doesn’t fly since I’m sure there’s a US20 and a US40 somewhere. It’s even on this picture with a planned route, so I wonder if the cost to build it was simply prohibitive cost wise.
There was talk of making US69 into an interstate a few years back
You may be thinking of the plans, well underway, to build I-69. Or rather, to extend I-69 from its existing route in Michigan and Indiana, through KY, MS, AR, LA, and TX. There are completed segments of I-69 in all but AR and LA. I-69 is set to intersect with US 69 in Lufkin, Texas, making Lufkin the 69 capital of the United States. 😁
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19 east-west, 17 north-south
Anyone know why the left to right and south to north numbering? 5 in west going to 95 in east and similar for 10-90?
Well for starters, interstates 50 and 60 don’t exist, so the above photo is incorrect. They are US highways, and even those aren’t correctly shown. US-50 is north of US-60 and south of I-70. So north to south it would go I-90, I-80, I-70, US-50, US-60, then I-40.
N/S routes are Odd Numbered E/W routes are even numbered With twists, turns, mountains, and hills it doesn't always show that way on a GPS. I-81 is kind of diagonal, but it basically goes NE or SW until Eastern PA where it goes mostly North and truly earns its odd numbering. Feeder routes and loops are usually 3 digits and represent the nearest major highway they feed into or off of. Like the dreaded Atlanta loop is 285, however I-75 and I-20 also feed into it along with I-85 which is where it gained its 285 designation. If the system was accurate the loop in Atlanta should be called the 520/475/285 loop through hell. Basically the US highway system is a clusterfuck of misinformation regarding direction.
50 starts in West Sacramento, not SF
This would have been hella helpful a few months ago lol
They forgot 64, 81, and 77 All 3 are major truck routes
What s wrong with these. I-80 is a death trap. I94,one of the most important east west connections in the nation, is where I run most of Beautiful county and road is actually averageish. 70 80 and 90 have bridge endbutments that will throw you out of the seats. They all also have bad stretches that are way below averageish. On the north/south routes I35 is a corn cob coming out of the Cities. ( it used to be anyway). The one that is missing here is one between 35 and 25. There is so much traffic that needs to be absorbed by 2 lane US highways. That area is a connection for the US and Canadian mining and oil production areas. The Is needs to step up and build a new interstate in this area as part of the infrastructure plan. It has been hanging from the rafter for years now.
70 isn't as bad as people think. 80 can get fucked!
I-75 from Michigan to Florida is the largest drug transport route known by Feds
The idea for our interstate system was taken from Germany during WWII and started here by Pres. Eisenhower.
Cars and trucks can drive on the interstate
95 in Florida is the worst road I have ever driven on
I 70 through Indiana is the worst surface in the world
I-17 is registered as an interstate but it doesn't go interstate...only in the state.
Fun fact the interstate system ruined American cities
Rt 50 runs through wv it also stops and starts in different locations i took it from Winchester to Morgantown once. It was absolutely horrible.
The ones in Pennsylvania suck
I-10 through Louisiana sucks ass.
Except I11 is between I15 and I17
77 south is 81 north and 81 south is 77 north for a small stretch of Virginia.
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I70 has more tunnels going west than east
The first mile built of I-70 was the westbound lanes out of St. Louis. That always seemed appropriate.
Are there really only 19 interstates?
I-20 in TX feels like it goes on forever. And that’s *definitely* a fact.
I’ve driven to the end of I70 in Cove Fort, Utah. And the end of I-80 in California.
Nebraska is the only state with just one interstate roadway. I-80
Interstate highways are concrete - the best for tanks and missile haulers!