Roads that are oddly similar looking/feeling

Started by doorknob60, November 08, 2014, 04:23:52 AM

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doorknob60

I always remember as a kid when driving along OR-58 along the reservoirs in the Willamette, it always reminded me of driving through the Columbia Gorge on I-84. I took a quick look at Street View to see if my childhood thoughts were right, and boy are they. These two roads look and feel eerily similar. You have to ignore the fact that OR-58 is a 2 lane highway and I-84 is a 4 lane freeway, but looking out the window to the north, you see railroad tracks, a wide body of water, and foothills in the background. It's practically identical!

Here's OR-58:

Street View Link: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8628282,-122.6843437,3a,75y,32.65h,86.01t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s7eeYXL9iIpHVFROhAAGb3g!2e0

And here's I-84:

Street View Link: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.6884068,-121.692437,3a,75y,337.12h,87.41t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sHICCDPqQFoXPioDeKyQ9bA!2e0?hl=en

And keep in mind there are two spots on the road I randomly picked. I bet if I looked around more I could find something even more similar, but I think that gets the point across well enough.

Are there any other roads out there that look or feel the same?


hbelkins

There's a stretch of KY 11 in Montgomery County, south of Mt. Sterling, that always came to mind when I drove KY 84 west of Lebanon in Marion County. Similar terrain, similar highway alignment and a creek running alongside the road.


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bandit957

This street in Richmond, Virginia...

http://i.imgur.com/5oUKo2M.jpg

...bears more than a passing resemblance to Fort Thomas Avenue (KY 1120) in Fort Thomas, Kentucky...

http://goo.gl/maps/m1oxG
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bandit957

Old North Branch Road in Antrim, New Hampshire...

http://i.imgur.com/QHvfvvS.jpg

...strongly resembles Dayton Pike in Dayton, Kentucky...

http://goo.gl/maps/fIUwQ
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NE2

Any two suburban streets constructed at roughly the same time.
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Darkchylde

The unnumbered part of Blue Parkway (formerly part of US 50) in Kansas City feels eerily similar to some stretches of US 50 I've encountered before in Colorado.

SteveG1988

I70 in eastern colorado until you see the rockies feels identical to I-70 in Kansas west of Salina.
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