What Interstates Form Your "Home Block"???

[ibagli]

I-70, I-270, I-71, I-76, I-277, I-77

[ftballfan]

For me, my home block using all classes of highways:
North: I-94
East: I-275 -> US-24
South: M-50
West: US-23

[DandyDan]

My interstate block would be I-35 to the west, followed by I-90, which is concurrent with I-94, I-39, I-88, and I-80. I-380 dead ends in my block.

[bdmoss88]

85-65-459-20-285

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Those who said their block is bounded by a coast or border actually live in the same block as me and almost everyone in this world .

[CtrlAltDel]

Those who said their block is bounded by a coast or border actually live in the same block as me and almost everyone in this world .

Ah, the old:

90 / 94 / 41 / 43 / 41&94 / 94 / 90&94 / 90 / 80&90 / 94 / 69 / 94 / 75 / 80&90 / 90 / 91 / 93 / 95 / 78 / 81 / 83 / 76 / 95 / 64&95 / 95 / 4 / 75 / 10 / 10&35 / 10 / 8 / 5 / 5&10 / 5

(Or at least I think it is, counting only 2DIs. I wouldn't be surprised if I made a mistake somewhere though.

[doorknob60]

I guess mine would have to be I-84, I-5, I-80, and I-15  (I guess throw in I-205 and I-215 to cut off the corners but that doesn't change it much)

I guess I'll update mine for other types of highways. And going under the assumption that my home is within the shape created by my block (eg I live south of I-84, so I couldn't use I-90 as the northern border and I-84 as the south) and that the block is a complete loop.

Interstates only: I-84, I-205, I-5, I-80, I-215, I-15 (1,990 miles)

US highways only: US-30, US-20/26, US-95, US-50, US-93 (1,040 miles)

State highways only: Not possible to make a full loop without using another highway type

Any highway: I-84/US-30, ID-45, ID-78, ID-167, ID-67, ID-51 (148 miles)

[inkyatari]

I-80 / I-55 / I-39

[hotdogPi]

State highways only: Not possible to make a full loop without using another highway type

Meridian, ID is several hundred miles from both the Canadian border and the Pacific Ocean. Are you saying that it is possible to reach one of the two without touching ANY state routes?

[thenetwork]

Depending on how CDOT feels like recognizing US Highways on any given day, my US block would be:

US-6 / US-24 / US-285 / US-50

[hubcity]

No "Home Block" for me until the Cape May-Lewes Bridge-Tunnel's opening causes the Garden State Parkway to be re-designated as I-101.

Then it'd be I-95 -> I-195 -> I-101.

(Oh, wait, I-195 becomes NJ 138 before it hits the GSP, it'd have to be extended. Failing that, I-101 would have to be extended south to I-64 before I'll have a home block!)

[paulthemapguy]

Mine is a triangle.  I-55, I-80, and I-355.

[adventurernumber1]

With me living in Dalton, Georgia, which is directly east of Interstate 75 and in the northwest part of the state:


Going clockwise, my "Interstate Home Block" is:

1 => Interstate 75 from Atlanta (I-285) to Knoxville, TN (I-40), which is on my west, for 182 miles.

2 => (with the I-75/I-40 concurrency being treated as solely I-40 for the purposes of this activity) Interstate 40 from west of Knoxville, TN (I-75) to Asheville, NC, which is on my north and northeast, for 129 miles.

3 => Interstate 26 from Asheville, NC (I-40) to Spartanburg, SC (I-85), which is on my east, for 58.1 miles.

4 => Interstate 85 from Spartanburg, SC (I-26) to Atlanta (I-285), which is on my east and southeast, for 153 miles.

5 => Interstate 285 in Atlanta (the northern part of the beltway) from I-85 to I-75, which is on my south, for 14.7 miles.


For a more concise summary:

My "Interstate Home Block" is I-75/I-40/I-26/I-85/I-285 (clockwise).

[DandyDan]

Just to continue, my US Highway block is 18 to the south, 169 to the west, 14 to the north and 218 to the west, with 65 and 69 having dangling ends in Albert Lea. It was possible that if I chose a different apartment building here in Mason City when I moved here that it would have been US 65 NB to my east and US 65 SB to my west.

The all highways block is US 18 and IA 27 to the south, US 65 to the west, IA 9 to the north and US 218 to the east, with IA 122 having a dangling end.

My state highway block is Iowa 9 to WI 82 to WI 35 to WI 133 to WI 35 again to WI 11 to WI 80 to IL 84 to IL 64 to IA 64 to IA 136 to IA 3 to IA 13 to IA 56 to IA 150 to IA 3 again to IA 27. Too many dangling ends to count.

[roadfro]

My current home block:
*Interstates: I-80, I-215 (UT), I-15, I-210 (CA), I-5, I-80
*State Routes: NV 659

Just moved less than two miles to a new apartment. My previous home block was quite different:
*Interstates: I-80, I-215 (UT), I-15, I-84, I-205 (OR), I-5, I-80
*State Routes: can't do it with NV Routes alone


Can't do either location with US Routes as it leaves a major gap. Current US 50, US 395, US 20 & US 101 form the significant chunk with a small gap in southern CA. Change 101 to 97 makes a smaller block but a bigger gap to close the loop. If former US routes were considered though, it would go 395, 20, 97, 99, 40.

[empirestate]

Mine is 84/684/287/87. In practical usage, though, the Taconic Parkway to my east cuts the block down by about a third.

[roadman65]

When I lived in NJ, from 1986 to 1990 it was I-95 on the south and east.  I-78 on the north, and I-287 on the west and south.  Before that it was I-95 as is after, and because I-78 was not completed through Watchung Reservation, it was I-280 and part of I-80 on the north.  Then I-287 on the north, west, and part of the south.

So I lived in two blocks for a while.

[mvak36]

My current place in Overland Park: I-35, I-435, I-49, and I-44

Previous places
Omaha, NE: I-80, I-680, I-29, I-90, I-25
Ames, IA: I-80, I-35, I-90, I-29, I-680

[doorknob60]

State highways only: Not possible to make a full loop without using another highway type

Meridian, ID is several hundred miles from both the Canadian border and the Pacific Ocean. Are you saying that it is possible to reach one of the two without touching ANY state routes?

Depends on what you mean by "touching". If you mean "driving on", then yeah I can get to the Canadian border via I-84 (or US-20/26) and US-95. Obviously that intersects plenty of state routes. Same deal for the Pacific, I-84, I-405, US-26 (or US-30, which avoids an OR-47 concurrency).

But that's not the question I was trying to answer in my original post. The question I was trying to answer was, can I create an enclosed polygon around the place that I live using only state routes (no US or Interstates, though if a state route is multiplexed with one that's okay). I can't.

To use an example where I could, let's say I lived in downtown Eagle, ID. I could make a loop with state routes, using ID-44 (on the south), ID-16 (on the west), ID-52 (on the north), and ID-55 (on the east), which fully encloses Eagle. When ID-16 eventually gets finished down to I-84 (no timeframe currently), then most of Meridian will be able to be enclosed as well (as ID-55 is concurrent with I-84 between Exit 46 and 33 as the south boundary).

[hotdogPi]

State highways only: Not possible to make a full loop without using another highway type

Meridian, ID is several hundred miles from both the Canadian border and the Pacific Ocean. Are you saying that it is possible to reach one of the two without touching ANY state routes?

Depends on what you mean by "touching". If you mean "driving on", then yeah I can get to the Canadian border via I-84 (or US-20/26) and US-95. Obviously that intersects plenty of state routes. Same deal for the Pacific, I-84, I-405, US-26 (or US-30, which avoids an OR-47 concurrency).

But that's not the question I was trying to answer in my original post. The question I was trying to answer was, can I create an enclosed polygon around the place that I live using only state routes (no US or Interstates, though if a state route is multiplexed with one that's okay). I can't.

To use an example where I could, let's say I lived in downtown Eagle, ID. I could make a loop with state routes, using ID-44 (on the south), ID-16 (on the west), ID-52 (on the north), and ID-55 (on the east), which fully encloses Eagle. When ID-16 eventually gets finished down to I-84 (no timeframe currently), then most of Meridian will be able to be enclosed as well (as ID-55 is concurrent with I-84 between Exit 46 and 33 as the south boundary).

Sorry I didn't believe you. Wow. I didn't realize that every state route that touches US 195 ends there.

[GHayesNRP]

I-290 back when I lived in Worcester, MA

[empirestate]

I-290 back when I lived in Worcester, MA

Did you live in the median?

[ilpt4u]

I-290 back when I lived in Worcester, MA

Did you live in the median?

Obviously not Worcester, MA...but there are a few spots where people do live within the Interstate median...

I-75 in Cincy, OH comes to mind https://goo.gl/maps/QAPDbwRJBVA2
I-24 at Monteagle, TN also https://goo.gl/maps/T52PktNMzR22

[MantyMadTown]

Back home my block used to be I-43 to the west and Lake Michigan to the east, but since I moved to Madison my block is now I-39/90 to the east, I-90 to the north, I-35 to the west, and I-80 and I-88 to the south.

[catsynth]

If we count US 101 (which I suspect we don't), then it would be I-80, I-280, US 101.  Technically, there is no other interstate to the west between me and the ocean unless you count H-1.