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Title: Stories of interstates
Post by: WISFreeways on September 29, 2009, 08:43:51 PM
(I-94 speaking)
Hi. I'm I-94. I started my route when I-90 got inspired by Seattle when I-5 started him. So, he decided to let me loose after he went through Billings, Montana :clap: :clap: :clap:. I was very close friends with him, but he betrayed me while we were in Chicagoland by taking I-80 from me  :pan:  :banghead: :pan:. So, I decided to go to Detroit because it had the Big Three and end in Canada while I-69 started his route from Canada :ded:.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Alps on September 29, 2009, 11:16:32 PM
Hi, I-38 speaking.  My parents decided to use contraceptives, so I was never even born.  However, rumor is that somewhere along the way an illegitimate stepchild slipped out... my dad had a relationship with I-80.  I don't really want to talk about it.  From what I understand, everyone is shunning my "cousin" except for I-80.  It's hard to feel badly toward my dad's affair when my parents are such terrible parents.  (I-8 and I-3... and where are they now?  See?)  So... remember me as the lesson for what could have been.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: SSOWorld on September 30, 2009, 12:03:41 AM
This is I-39.  I don't even remember who my biological parents are.  I-90 and I-94 seem to never want to let me go, in fact for a short time while in Wisconsin, they fought over me so we ended up traveling as a triple team.  I've also got friends who wouldn't ever leave me alone.  especially US-51.  He felt so important, that he wanted "TO US 51" to join me for the 6 miles I actually got to travel alone, but I turned that offer down on the count that everyone has to be themselves.  Hell, US 51 told me I couldn't have my own Exit numbers in Wisconsin - what gives?  I still hope for the day that US 51 gets stuck in Bloomington.  I could never find a mate to give me the chance to let I-239 into the world at Madison.  They also told me it would not be legitimate, since we got four squabbling US routes on that path.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: mapman on September 30, 2009, 02:18:47 AM
Hi, my name is I-880.  I grew up in Sacramento, California, helping to get people up to their ski vacations in the Sierra Nevada mountains.  Then all of a sudden my father, I-80, orphaned me, taking over MY route!   :angry:

Did he at least swap me with his old route?  No, he gave it to my step-brother, Business I-80!  (Why does he deserve a freeway, anyway?)   :confused:

Anyway, my good friend California 17 offered to give me some of his route through the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area -- said he needed my help to upgrade himself.  So I was only happy to oblige.   :sombrero:

Now, I'm a wider freeway than I ever was, and named after a famous Navyman, to boot.  Everything's great.  (Well, except for that time twenty years ago when I temporarily lost my hair in an earthquake.  But other than that ...)   :cool:
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: mapman on September 30, 2009, 02:22:25 AM
My name is I-380.  Most people know me as the way to the San Francisco Airport.  But I have much bigger dreams.  When I grow up, I'd like to have my own bridge over San Francisco Bay, connecting to my big brother, I-880.  But alas, that's probably never going to happen.     :no:


The name's I-605.  My beat is the Los Angeles metro area.  No one knows where I go, because Caltrans only signs my destinations as "Thru Traffic."  What the @^%$ is with that, Caltrans?  I mean, I go places -- Duarte, City of Industry, Norwalk, Cerritos, even Long Beach, for crying out loud!  I'll be happy with any one of those!  Or, give me a name -- I parallel the San Gabriel River, so why not "San Gabriel River Freeway?"  I'm sick and tired of I-405 constantly bragging about being the freeway to San Diego.  You don't go anywhere near San Diego, nimrod!   :pan:

Anyway, thanks for letting me vent.  That's been building for quite a while.   :biggrin:

---Lets not double post in order to put two stories in a row please - ms
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: SSOWorld on September 30, 2009, 07:26:58 AM
Hi, I'm I-76

and I'm I-84

and I-86

and I-88

[together]and we have evil twins out west, mwahahahaha!  We think I-74 has an identity crisis! mwahahahaha! :happy:
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: kurumi on September 30, 2009, 02:29:02 PM
I'm I-295. No, not that one. Not that one either. Just listen for a second. I connect with I-95 on the east coast. No, not Providence, although that's very nice. Yes, 895, I heard about that. Richmond, too. Yes, but they're calling it VA 895.

No, that's the Jacksonville one. Do you really think we all look alike, you bigot? No, not New York; though I agree, that could have been called anything. Yes. Portland. Very good.

(Sigh) No, then I would have been I-205, right? Look at a map.

Yes, I'm longer now. You can probably tell. It's helped my confidence a lot with the other interstates.

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I go from Tampa / St. Pete to Daytona, via Orlando. I guess you could call me the vacation interstate... I know, I don't cross a state line. Actually, a lot of interstates don't. So what's your point?

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I-10 here. LA, Phoenix, San Antonio, Houston, New Orleans, Jacksonville. If it doesn't snow, that's where I go. Y'know, at my west Texas state line, it's actually closer to LA than it is to the east Texas line; and at the east Texas line, it's closer to JAX than to the west Texas line.

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Hi, I-99 here. Highest number in the nation. All you haters can suck it. Hey, I had a shirt like that... before I got a job. Is that your girlfriend? Oh, your wife? Nice ****s, but kind of a butterface. Not that it would matter in the dark.

Damn, that's a long line at the bar. 'Scuse me. Out of the way, old lady. Hey barkeep! Beer me! No? Do you know who I am? That's better. Make it two. Keep the change. What? Eleven-fifty? Here's a ten, I'll getcha back next time.

What a boring crowd here. Where's the hot women at? Guess I'll need those beer googles sooner than later... glug glug. Hey baby why don't you take that ring off, then come to my place and take everything else off Ow! What's your problem, b*tch?

Hey cutie, heaven must be missing an angel becBLAUUUAARGHHHHH
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: ssummers72 on September 30, 2009, 02:51:13 PM
Hi I'm I-294.

I go around Chicago connecting I-80/94 South of Chicago to I-94 North of Chicago. I once entered Indiana in the early 1960's along with I-80 and 90. Then I was pulled back to I-94 on the South side when I-90 moved to the Tollroad/Skyway. Then Indiana tried to extend me again in 1968 but the FHWA said no way.... So, I'm stuck with my tolls and congestion for the rest of my life skooting are Chicaga'

I came close to having a twin brother in Metro Detroit but he was replaced with I-275...what a drag.

Maybe I'll get a companion when the build the O'hare West Bypass..

Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: agentsteel53 on September 30, 2009, 04:04:11 PM
I-99... the Glen Quagmire of interstate routes??
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Bryant5493 on September 30, 2009, 06:02:16 PM
Hi, I'm I-285 and I encircle Atlanta.

Some kids from Georgia State University produced a video called 55: A Meditation on the Speed Limit, where they drove 55 m.p.h. across all lanes of traffic. Thought-provoking, but very dangerous.

I'm not signed as inner-outer. I have cardinal directions. I turn north, south, east and west. I'm north-south between I-85/Old National Hwy. and I-75 (Westside). I then turn east-west between I-75 and I-85 (Top End). I'm north-south again between I-85 and I-20 (Eastside), and I then become east-west again between I-20 and I-85 (Southside).

I'm over-worked. I really need an alternate (i.e., the Northern Arc).


Be well,

I-285
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: WISFreeways on September 30, 2009, 06:03:45 PM
Hi. I'm I-394. My secret mission was to help my father not be scared of the Twin Cities(it was almost too late, but he managed to swerve just in time in the midst of the Lowry Hill neighborhood), but I told my brother that it was to help upgrade US 12.
I almost have a twin brother in Illinois, but they'll need to build the Peotone airport if they want to get me a twin brother.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Ian on September 30, 2009, 08:21:29 PM
Whazzup dawg?? I'm I-476. My peeps south of Plymouth Meeting know me as my nick name The Blue Route, but my AIM screen name (some of my peeps call me that) is The Mid County Expressway. North of Plymouth Meeting, my homies call me the Northeast Extension, where I steel money from passers by who go through my tolls. I run from the great city of Philadelphia (well, more like Chester, but if I say that, I'll sound like a looser  :-() to north the small city of Scranton in the northeast (home to The Office!). My north end is at I-81 in Clarks Summit while my south end is at I-95. At 132 miles, I am the longest auxiliary interstate in the country! Take that I-495 in Massachusetts! In Springfield, I got me a junction with US 1 at a rare(ish) 3-level diamond interchange. In 1996, I was accused of the murder of PA route 9 north of Plymouth Meeting. Unfortunately, I plead guilty :-(. As punishment, I cause heavy backups on the Blue Route and at times, the Northeast Extension. That's bad for me because people don't want to drive me and they take alternate routes! Uh, so thats it!
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: SSOWorld on October 01, 2009, 02:04:28 PM
I-894 here - from the department of redundancy department, I pretty much only exist because of the exit numbers.   Otherwise my North-South leg is essentially US 45 and my East-West Leg is essentially I-43.   :-/
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: mightyace on October 01, 2009, 02:36:59 PM
Quote from: Master son on October 01, 2009, 02:04:28 PM
I-894 here - from the department of redundancy department, I pretty much only exist because of the exit numbers.   Otherwise my North-South leg is essentially US 45 and my East-West Leg is essentially I-43.   :-/

If only that pesky I-43 extension hadn't come along, I wouldn't feel so irrelevant.  I remember when I was the only number between US 45 and I-94.

Such is progress. <sigh>  X-(
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: exit322 on October 01, 2009, 04:11:41 PM
Hi, I'm I-585.  Yes, the illegitimate one.  My daddy hates me so much that he moved just to get away from me.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: WISFreeways on October 01, 2009, 05:03:51 PM
Quote from: mapman on September 30, 2009, 02:22:25 AM
My name is I-380.  Most people know me as the way to the San Francisco Airport.  But I have much bigger dreams.  When I grow up, I'd like to have my own bridge over San Francisco Bay, connecting to my big brother, I-880.  But alas, that's probably never going to happen.     :no:

And when I'm six feet under  :ded:, I'll extend toward the Cabrillo Hwy.

[Fixed quoting. -S.]
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Scott5114 on October 02, 2009, 07:05:03 PM
Oh, um, hello. I'm I-44. I connect Wichita Falls to St. Louis. Pardon my manners--would you like me to get you a drink? No? Oh, okay then. Well, yes, I do run through Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Springfield, MO. I work for OTA...I'm their top source of income! Hey, it makes it up for them having me extended if I help them pay the bills. Don't want to seem ungrateful, you know. The guy I replaced was pretty well liked but it was time for him to retire, so, uh, here I am now! Let me know if you need anything!
Title: Interstate 27- BigMatt
Post by: BigMattFromTexas on October 02, 2009, 08:33:10 PM
Well howdy, Im I-27, you know in North Texas, wait you don't? Prolly cause im so short i mean im only 124 miles long.  :eyebrow:
Well I kinda took over part of US 87 :ded:
I would love to get taller and maybe even grow South to hmm, Mexico? And definetly North towards, possibly Canada. :clap:
If that doesn't happen I'll prolly cry. :-( You don't want dat to happen do you? :no:
A short story by BigMatt
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: WISFreeways on October 02, 2009, 09:32:27 PM
Hi I'm I-794. I got bitten off by mayor John Norquist because he didnt want it to be built :ded:, but my tail still grew a little (Now WIS 794). The Blues Brothers went over the Hoan Bridge - to my then-dead tail while filming their movie. I also am Pennsylvania Ave to my tails terminus at College Ave.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: SSOWorld on October 09, 2009, 05:56:02 PM
I-305 here, not many people know who I am, really.  You would think I would be some freeway in San Diego or Los Angeles?  Nope.  I'm in Sacramento.  But no one would know that since I'm hidden.  I'm actually referred to as Business Loop I-80 or the Capital City Freeway. - at least part of it.  See they wouldn't let me have all of it because they told me it doesn't meet the standards.  I should be I-880.  The current I-880 should be I-180 and that California state route in Fresno should be a different number.  There are other freeways that don't meet standards that have interstate designations, why can't my junior cousin that is linked to me?
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: mapman on October 09, 2009, 07:16:21 PM
My name's I-980, and no one exactly knows where I came from.  I live in Downtown Oakland, California, but don't really go much of anywhere.  Can someone please extend me?  Please?  I hear Walnut Creek is nice.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: DanTheMan414 on October 09, 2009, 10:54:34 PM
As I-894, I forgot to mention that thanks to me, Chicago isn't the only city with an "L"...Milwaukee has one, too.  :sombrero:
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: SSOWorld on October 09, 2009, 11:32:51 PM
Quote from: DanTheMan414 on October 09, 2009, 10:54:34 PM
As I-894, I forgot to mention that thanks to me, Chicago isn't the only city with an "L"...Milwaukee has one, too.  :sombrero:
FAIL :pan:

I-394 reporting in, make sure you're in the right lane on me.  If you're too far left, you better have a transponder from MN-DOT, cause you're about to be raped for a toll.  Of course - you can have someone hitch a ride with you and get away with it :P
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: florida on October 12, 2009, 02:34:29 AM
I-395, here. The one that helps shuttle you to South Beach. Nobody likes me except for my parent. All the other roads like that backstabbing 836, or give me small shelds shoved to the bottom of a guide sign. My other siblings have tons of friends (I'm jealous of my sister I-595, she has a BFF who follows her everywhere).
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: WISFreeways on October 16, 2009, 08:35:27 PM
Quote from: Master son on October 09, 2009, 05:56:02 PM
I-305 here, not many people know who I am, really.  You would think I would be some freeway in San Diego or Los Angeles?  Nope.  I'm in Sacramento.  But no one would know that since I'm hidden.  I'm actually referred to as Business Loop I-80 or the Capital City Freeway. - at least part of it.  See they wouldn't let me have all of it because they told me it doesn't meet the standards.  I should be I-880.  The current I-880 should be I-180 and that California state route in Fresno should be a different number.  There are other freeways that don't meet standards that have interstate designations, why can't my junior cousin that is linked to me?
Ah, but the thing is, I-880 wants to be with his sprawling 8-through lane corridor (not to mention his BFF CA-17), NOT I-305  :-D
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: City on October 16, 2009, 10:18:53 PM
Hi, Interstate 25 here. I love high altitudes! Ahh... Wyoming, in the middle of the Rockies! Sadly, I end at I-90 at my northern terminus, and at I-10 at my southern. Oh, by the way, I-27, if anybody was to be extended to Canada and Mexico, it'd be probably me. Don't cry, it's ok. I'll try to make you extended to Denver!  :biggrin:

Anyways, I want more 3dis for myself. All I have on my entire 1,062 mile trek to myself is an 11 mile long freeway called I-225! How annoying!

One last thing: I am part of the Pan-Am Highway, which is the longest drivable highway in the world! How cool is that?

Welp, I'll be headed off (oh, and you should drive me, I'm scenic!).
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: agentsteel53 on October 16, 2009, 10:29:25 PM
Quote from: City on October 16, 2009, 10:18:53 PM
the longest drivable highway in the world

so how precisely do you plan on getting across the Darien Gap in north Panama?? 
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: njroadhorse on October 17, 2009, 10:54:42 AM
Hi, I-195 here.  No, not the Providence one.... or the Richmond one.... or the Maine one for the smart ass in the back of the room.  Anyways, I smuggle my daddy from his toll road around Trenton with my brother, I-295.  My brother's the only family that really "understands" me.  I mean c'mon, by two best friends are two overcrowded toll roads!  My brother tells me I might get some of his and daddy's route in a few years if dad can get an interchange operation done in time.  He says its being done by some medical group called the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, and that they're kind of jerking dad around.  Anyways, maybe I'll be longer someday and can see Pennsylvania.  Until, then I'll just stick to shuttling people to Six Flags and the Shore.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: algorerhythms on October 17, 2009, 11:53:36 AM
Quote from: njroadhorse on October 17, 2009, 10:54:42 AM
Hi, I-195 here.  No, not the Providence one.... or the Richmond one.... or the Maine one for the smart ass in the back of the room. 
Are you the Baltimore one? What, you don't go to the airport?
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: WISFreeways on October 18, 2009, 12:24:04 PM
Quote from: HighwayMaster on October 18, 2009, 11:57:13 AM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on September 30, 2009, 04:04:11 PM
I-99... the Glen Quagmire of interstate routes??

You are aware that njroadhorse put that into his sig, right?
looks like he is  :pan:
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: WNYroadgeek on October 24, 2009, 10:00:14 PM
Hi, I'm I-990, a.k.a THE HIGHEST NUMBERED INTERSTATE IN ALL THE LAND!

Of course, I'm also one of the shortest interstates in all the land. When the hell will NYSDOT extend me to Lockport and beyond?
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: OracleUsr on October 25, 2009, 08:54:37 PM
I-99 Giggety Giggety Giggety...ALL RIGHT

(digressing)

Hi, I-229 here.  I have no control cities from my southern terminus because my northern terminus is at a gravel road.

------------------------------------------------

I-74 here.  Some psychopath chopped up my lower leg and scattered the parts through umpteen places in NC

------------------------------------------------

Hi, I-95 here.  Some joker says I end in Daytona Beach at I-4  (as of 2008, those END I-95 signs were still there)
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Darkchylde on October 26, 2009, 01:47:51 PM
'Sup? I-12 here. Just consider me a little sister of sorts to I-10. Some people say I should be an x10, but I'm important enough for two digits! Honest! I don't cut through the traffic misery that is New Orleans, and I'm shorter if you have no reason to go there. I'm a little overwhelmed by the responsibility and the traffic, though. Others are talking about extending me, but I'm comfy where I am.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: cu2010 on November 25, 2009, 09:32:18 PM
Hello. I-790 here. For some reason, nobody can trust me. Instead of letting me have my own free reign of central New York, NYSDOT decided to partner me with NY5, NY8, and NY12! How rude! Sure, some people say that I'm a bit strange, saying that I barely qualify as a real Interstate, but I'm still here! My biggest dream right now is to finally break free of this current road and re-align myself with the Utica-Rome Expressway instead.

Howdy. I-587 here. I really shouldn't even exist, as I'm merely the last little tiny bit of NY28 near Kingston, but somebody decided to stick an Interstate shield on my anyways. How nice. I'm a little separated from my parent, though, as I'm only connected to I-87 by a roundabout. 
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: hbelkins on November 27, 2009, 11:36:24 PM
Hey folks, I'm I-265. What's that? You say you can see right through me, as if my middle isn't even there? Well you might be right. My top half doesn't connect to my bottom half. Now if those idiots in Kentucky and Indiana would get their sh*t together and connect my ends and build that f-ing bridge already, I could be whole.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: hbelkins on November 30, 2009, 12:01:20 AM
Howdy, y'all. I'm I-265.

Wait, wait!!! WTF? I don't exist anymore? My parent ate me? OMG!!!! The horror, the horror!

OBTW ... Rocky Top sucks. :ded:
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: njroadhorse on November 30, 2009, 04:27:22 PM
Hey there! I'm I-296.  Screw you 131! Nobody likes you anyway!  Plus, me and M-6 are much better friends anyway.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: hbelkins on November 30, 2009, 06:19:12 PM
Greetings, fellow forum goers. I'm I-64, and like Rodney Dangerfield, I get no respect. I have the red, white and blue Interstate shield, the mightiest road designation of them all, yet on my western end I'm relegated to second-class status. Everybody insists on calling me "40" even though the RWB shield trumps the black-and-white shield. I just don't get it. I've even been rebuilt and am being extended to end at an honest-to-goodness two-digit interstate that ends in "0" and they still call me "40 around here. No wonder the football Cardinals left. This place sucks.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: SSOWorld on November 30, 2009, 06:55:59 PM
Hey, I-70 here, I lost a couple teeth in my endeavors - one was replaced with Breezewood and the other replaced with single-lane tunnels
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Dougtone on November 30, 2009, 07:41:30 PM
There was a thread on MTR about 6-7 years ago called "The sad, broken family of X-78's".  I think that for the purposes of this thread, it may be amusing to read the thread in the Google Groups archives.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: hbelkins on November 30, 2009, 08:14:30 PM
Greetings from Hoosier Country. My number is 164. I'm afraid that a slimmer, smaller number that just moved in to the north of me is going to take me over. I'm hearing that 69 is going to one day run from Indianapolis all the way to Texas and wants to use me as part of the route. At least my parent isn't going to gobble me up like what happened to 265 down in Tennessee, but it's sad all the same to know that I'll be gone in a few years. Give my regards to 390 in New York, I hear the same thing's gonna happen to him once they link 99 from the State College area into New York.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Scott5114 on November 30, 2009, 08:21:20 PM
Quote from: dougtone on November 30, 2009, 07:41:30 PM
There was a thread on MTR about 6-7 years ago called "The sad, broken family of X-78's".  I think that for the purposes of this thread, it may be amusing to read the thread in the Google Groups archives.

http://www.nycroads.com/history/I-78_broken/
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Dougtone on November 30, 2009, 09:49:30 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on November 30, 2009, 08:21:20 PM
Quote from: dougtone on November 30, 2009, 07:41:30 PM
There was a thread on MTR about 6-7 years ago called "The sad, broken family of X-78's".  I think that for the purposes of this thread, it may be amusing to read the thread in the Google Groups archives.

http://www.nycroads.com/history/I-78_broken/

That's the one.  I thought it was fitting for this topic.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: mightyace on December 02, 2009, 04:28:30 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on November 30, 2009, 12:01:20 AM
Wait, wait!!! WTF? I don't exist anymore? My parent ate me? OMG!!!! The horror, the horror!

OBTW ... Rocky Top sucks. :ded:

Hi, I-440 here!  I-265 should be glad he was put out of his misery, Music City doesn't treat it's 3dis well.  It took forever for me to be built as the NIMBYs were busy.  Hey some of the bridges over me are landscaped to disguise the fact that you're crossing over an interstate!  By the time I was finished, it was clear my four lanes were too few but I doubt the NIMBYs will let me expand.

My east end is a convoluted mess.  I'm signed from I-40 along a short duplex with I-24 but not eastward.  I don't know if I end at I-24 or at I-40 and my daddy won't tell me.

Oh well, at least me and my pal, I-65 have the only stack interchange within a 100 miles!

And, being close to Vanderbilt University, don't like Rocky Top either.  But, that's mainly because those $%^%$&*#@ UT fans play it all the time when they come to town to beat Vandy up!
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Brandon on December 02, 2009, 06:02:04 PM
I-69 here.  Never had any desire to go beyond Indianapolis to Texas, much less Mississippi.  I understand that Mississippi has been signing an imposter of me on one of their state routes.  Only one child route, I-469, but plenty of business loops in Michigan.  Shoot, I even swing both ways there, north-south and east-west!
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: njroadhorse on December 03, 2009, 06:31:03 AM
I-271 here.  My sole purpose in life is to bypass people around the booming city of Cleveland.  Not that great of a purpose, right?  There is a perk that makes me an individual in the Interstate world though.  I am the only one in the entire country to have a multiplex with my own 3di kind!  I-480 is my best buddy in the world, and we would do anything for each other.  So, if your ever near Cleveland...
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: hbelkins on December 03, 2009, 03:00:14 PM
Hey, I'm I-181 and I can relate to my Hoosier cousin 164. At least when my Tennessee cousin I-265 disappeared, his parent swallowed him. When it happened to me, 26 was the guilty party. Hope those of you who knew me have fond memories. At least US 23 lives on to preserve my legacy.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: WillWeaverRVA on December 04, 2009, 01:01:22 AM
Quote from: OracleUsr on October 25, 2009, 08:54:37 PM
Hi, I-229 here.  I have no control cities from my southern terminus because my northern terminus is at a gravel road.

Actually, per Google Street View, the county road past the northern terminus of I-229 is now paved.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: PATurnpikeFan816 on July 12, 2016, 11:51:57 PM
Hello, I am I-81. I connect Bristol, Staunton, D.C., Harrisburg, Hazleton, SWB, and Syracuse to Canada and I am part of the fastest route from DC to Ottawa.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Max Rockatansky on July 13, 2016, 12:01:45 AM
Really 2009 this thread got necro-revived from?   I know a lot of people have been asking for old threads to be brought back when a topic returns...but damn.  :-D
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: TravelingBethelite on July 13, 2016, 01:22:31 AM
Sure, I'll help with this thread revival...

Hi, I'm I-384! I provide a major link here in the Northeast...at least I think I do. Stupid NIMBYs and the city of Providence stunted my growth. I have a sister in New York and two stunted brothers in downtown Hartford. Part of me was amputated in Willimantic and I never got it back!  :no:  :spin:  :-/
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: formulanone on July 13, 2016, 06:28:25 AM
Hi! I'm I-375 in Saint Petersburg. Well, see you later.

Hi! I'm I-175 in Saint Pete. Well, see you later.

Hi! I'm I-375 in Detroit...well, gotta go.

Hello, my name is I-595 in Annapolis. Top-secret and important bridge stuff, so I can't talk. US 50 will answer any questions on my behalf.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Max Rockatansky on July 13, 2016, 07:10:26 AM
Hello, I'm I-60 and part of my route goes through a nuclear test site in the Nevada Test Site.  I've come from the future to warn you...stop FritzOwl now before he builds his army of Interstate Shield wearing shock troopers.  Countless US Routes met their end in the great war and the highways are in ruins.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: hotdogPi on July 13, 2016, 08:28:03 AM
Hello, I-2 here. For some reason, I seem to be disconnected from the other Interstates. I'm also really close to Mexico, which has its own route numbered 2 close to the border. No, I do not support a border wall. When will I ever reach Laredo?






Hello, I-366 here. I used to be VA 28, which seems to be a common number for a state route freeway, as Pennsylvania and Massachusetts also have routes numbered 28 with freeway portions. Now I'm 366. I provide access to the Dulles airport, just like VA 267.




My name is I-278. You separated me from my father. Prepare to die.




Hello. I'm 89. No, I am not 89 years old. I start in Concord, New Hampshire, go through Burlington, Vermont, and end at the Canadian border where Canada forgot to continue the freeway. They remembered to continue with I-91, but not me. Other than Concord and Burlington, I go through no major cities. Someone, please increase the speed limit to 70 or even 75.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Max Rockatansky on July 13, 2016, 09:51:54 AM
-  Hello I'm I-19.  Everyone hates me because I'm a short route and wants me to go away so I-11 can move in.  I think it has something to do with the fact that I use the metric system...total roadism here in Arizona...  :eyebrow:

- I-17 here.  People complain that I don't have uphill truck lanes, but I complain about you racing back to Phoenix from Sedona every Sunday night in droves.  Don't you people have anything better to do like bother AZ 87 or AZ 260?

-  Hi, I'm Interstate 4.  I used to have a much better western end point but everyone likes I-275 better than me to St. Petersburg.  I'm kind of like your uncle that keeps his ratted out Firebird with the Screaming Chicken in his front yard who drinks too much...because I'm a train wreck in Orlando.  I'm seeking out help for my problems but it will be years before I'm sober enough to be good for anybody.

-  I-27 checking in.  How many of you actually knew I existed?  Sometimes I feel like I'm completely forgotten and it's lonely out her Lubbock.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: roadman on July 13, 2016, 02:22:34 PM
Hi- I'm I-695 from "Bawstn".  People still call me "The Inner Belt", although the correct term these days should be "The Missing Belt".  You see, despite having a bunch of land cleared for me - some of which was eventually used for an oversized local street that people now want to downsize, I was never built - save for a short double deck section that was subsequently stolen by my distant cousin I-93, as well as a pair of stub ramps over rapid transit and train tracks.  One of these ramps was never used, and the other ramp is now part of an exit to the local road network by a large sports arena.  Never had any signs identifying me put up on the section that was actually constructed, although they did provide lots of signs with my parent's crest (I-95) on them around me - most of these signs remain, but the crest has since been removed from them.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: LM117 on July 13, 2016, 09:20:20 PM
Hi! I'm I-73 and I would really like to expand my horizons and see what lies beyond NC while making friends and bringing people together, but for some reason, everybody thinks I'm an asshole and won't give me the time of day. I didn't ask to be born! I just wanna be loved, dammit! Is it t-t-t-too much to ask?! :-(

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Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Max Rockatansky on July 13, 2016, 11:26:29 PM
Interstate 69 here.  Yes I'm the one with the name that sounds like a 1970s porno movie.  I'd change my name to I-45 with all the CANMEX extensions....nah....who would give up being called I-69?  I've been the go to Interstate for inflated ebay signage prices since the site opened up in the late 1990s.  I'm worshiped in the man caves of many a Viagara huffing repressed male individual named Harold going through a mid-life crisis trying ever so desperately to recapture his youth.  US 69 and may not be blood but his my brotha from anotha motha.   :cool:
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: slorydn1 on July 14, 2016, 04:23:17 AM
Hi everybody, I'm I-42.

Officially, I haven't been born yet. Heck, I wasn't even a twinkle in NCDOT's eye when this thread was started!!

But, when I am born I will be the link that gets people from the Capitol to the Crystal Coast. I cullda been a 3di, but that would have pissed off I-476 in PA. I keep telling everyone it's not the size of the Interstate that matters, it's how well you use it!

SO now I'll be my very own 2di, and when I grow up maybe they'll let me hook up with US-70 and we can have some children of our own.


Oh, and stop picking on my brother I-87-he's not even born yet and already is having identity issues-it's not his fault they want to name an east-west Interstate after a north-south one waaaay up there in New Yawk-fuhgedaboutit......
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Henry on July 14, 2016, 10:33:32 AM
Allow me to introduce myself: I-55, the highway with the blues. The reason for that is because I always seem to visit cities associated with that type of music (Chicago, St. Louis and Memphis), and there's even an NHL team near me named the Blues. I wish I could go to New Orleans, but I stop a little short of there to the west. I hear they have some great jazz down there. What do you mean, I can't piggyback on I-10 just to go there?

Hi, I'm I-83, the Baltimore-Harrisburg Interstate. I could've gone to Annapolis as well, but they gave that part to the bastard I-97 that I hate so much. Why wasn't it named I-995? Anyway, I have lots of potential to extend both ways. I wonder how the Rochester and Greensboro efforts are coming along? Especially Rochester, because I want to beat that criminal I-99 to it!

Hey guys, this is I-77, the Interstate that almost didn't exist. Guess the rumors are true, that I love cities that start with the letter C. There's Cleveland, Canton, Cambridge, Charleston (not the SC city, I don't even come close!), Charlotte and Columbia (thank God they extended me to SC in the 70s and 80s because just ending in Charlotte wasn't good enough for me). And I'm so happy for LeBron James and the Cavaliers for winning the NBA championship that I'd be honored to have the part that goes from Cleveland to Akron maned after him.

Hello, we're I-30 and I-45, twin highways that suffer from stunted growth. We were born in Dallas/Fort Worth, and branch eastward to Little Rock and southward to Houston and Galveston. Other highways that end in 0 and 5 stretch from one end of the country to the other, or most of them do anyway, so why can't we? Extensions would do both of us a lot of good.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: hm insulators on July 21, 2016, 07:42:13 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on November 27, 2009, 11:36:24 PM
Hey folks, I'm I-265. What's that? You say you can see right through me, as if my middle isn't even there? Well you might be right. My top half doesn't connect to my bottom half. Now if those idiots in Kentucky and Indiana would get their sh*t together and connect my ends and build that f-ing bridge already, I could be whole.

Hey folks, I'm I-265's twin brother I-710. What's that? You say you can see right through me, as if my middle isn't even there? Well you might be right. My top half doesn't connect to my bottom half. Now if those idiots in South Pasadena would get their sh*t together and connect my ends and build that f-ing tunnel already, I could be whole.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: sparker on August 03, 2016, 02:39:51 AM
Hey guys, I'm I-210.  Yeah, the California one, not that poser in Louisiana!  I used to be fat, happy, and complete, until some yahoos decided I needed an extension out through Fontucky and San Berdoo.  Guess they thought with my number the whole thing'd be 7 times better than with the previous number they wanted to use.  But I got my sorry ass caught in bureaucratic hell -- they took my rear end away from me, although someone says I still own it -- but now it has big green "57" numbers slapped all over it like it was a bottle of Heinz sauce.  I was supposed to just walk my butt out to Redlands like I owned the road, but somehow those same mofos that talked me into getting that extension in the first place have hung me out to dry.  Now there's more goddam big-ass green signs, with MY number, on the road that should've been ME!  My uncle I-15 and cousin I-215 laugh like hyenas every time they cross what should have been my path.  I can't really blame 'em, not with my d--k hanging out in San Dimas with nowhere to go!  Shit, am I pathetic or what?  If I ever get hold of one of those morons who got me into this mess, I'm going to take one of those green 210 shields and shove it, point-first, right up their..........(transmission mercifully cut off here).       
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: noelbotevera on August 03, 2016, 02:53:14 AM
Hi, I'm I-283. The only one in existence. I'm not even a loop! I'm so short, that my father forgets about me and all I have is this rich guy called I-76...he never talks to me, cause I'm too short and my life was not worth the number. Kill me, please!

Ayy, wussaup dawg, I'm THE real I-76 heuh! Nawt dem posuhs out west. I'm da guy who deals in evurythang, scams, 'igh pricin, huge tolls, and I'm fillllthy riech. I'm da guy who got connnectuns to evurythang, and I don't care 'bout dem losers who say that dey a bettuh root dan me! Naw, I'm the real OG, not that I-80 n I-68 guyz. Dey losuhs.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on August 04, 2016, 10:03:30 AM
I am Interstate 635 - I am all kinds of jacked up.  My mileposts increase counterclockwise unlike my other Texas cousins, and my northern terminus is a state highway (and yes, I have a terminus).  I live in a city where my father has a second personality, and I don't know this other personality, which scares me.  Back in the late 70s, my friend I-20 asked me if he could borrow my legs, and I said yes.  Then in the 80s he chopped them off, and now he walks around on those old legs of mine. How rude!!!  Because of this, I only see my father once.  I have very high blood pressure and no one knows how to fix it :(.   I am in the loop family but I act like a spur.... was I adopted?
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on August 04, 2016, 10:07:06 AM
Interstate 180 here - Yep, that one.  Definitely the black sheep of the family.  No one, and I mean no one, likes to talk to me, or about me, even my dad.  I am extremely deformed, so much that none of me looks like the other kids.  My father was traveling through Cheyenne one day and had a "fun night" and I was illegitimately born.  My legs were broke, my face looks like a brick building, and I look more like our very distance ancestors, the US Highways!  Doctor says I will never grow out of it though.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: jbnati27 on August 04, 2016, 12:11:53 PM
Hi, I'm I-77! I-326, get in my belly!!  :bigass:
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: capt.ron on August 04, 2016, 01:00:10 PM
Hi, I'm I-240. The Okie from.... Oklahoma City (well, that went over like a lead balloon!). Well, I'm here to confuse the hell out of all of you. Why you ask? Because I somehow inherited mile markers from my parent, I-40 just to my north. My west end was cut off for no reason at all, other than to make travelers lives, dare I say, more challenging. I used to connect to my parent in two places, but the powers at be thought that one connection to my parent was sufficient.
I just don't fit in anymore. I connect to my cousin, I-44 but my relationship with him is totally dysfunctional and awkward.
I feel like a spur now instead of a bypass.
Perhaps I need a name change? I have become irrelevant in today's times.
I have two brothers. My eldest lives in Tennessee. My youngest lives in North Carolina. Me and my youngest are jealous of our big brother. Especially me because I'm the middle child and have only one connection to my parent.
My parent has all new concrete and I'm withering away.
Speaking about my parent, I-40, he has something to say as well. He has had a troubled past.

I-40: "Shut up and let me talk!"
Hi, I'm I-40. I got my start by borrowing from my uncle that has passed away: US 66.
He gave me a LOT! From west of El Reno, Oklahoma to Barstow, California, I got his inheritance from early on. He watched me grow as a new whippersnapper in the late 1950's but he kept me in check as I grew older. By the mid 1970's, he began to advance on in age as I took over his duties of moving people and freight little by little. By 1985 my uncle US 66 passed away.
I gave birth to my 3 I-240 sons with my first one in Memphis, Tennessee. I gave birth to a second son in Oklahoma City in the mid 1970's. I got lucky again with a 240 son in North Carolina.
I ran into trouble in Memphis. I was thinking about cutting through Overton Park but the residents wouldn't have any of that. I was told to move north so I did. I like it fine where I'm at. I'm getting a makeover east of Memphis. I'm sure you all will like it!
I have other offspring as well. I have two 440 sons. One lives in Little Rock. He's kind of diabolical though. He has a strange twin called AR 440 just north of me.... but I don't talk about him much.
I have a daughter  I-540 in Fort Smith. She serves Fort Smith quite well. She recently got a makeover. Boy she looks good!
I have another son I-440 in Nashville. He's got stunted growth and is quite constricted. My fault. I gave him coffee when he was an infant. I'm so mean...
I have a bastard also in Tennessee. He goes by TN 840.
I have also another daughter in Tennessee. Her name is I-140. She's kinda short though but is rather feisty. Don't cross her!
Another son in Tennessee is I-640. He's kinda loopy though and I don't understand him much.
On my east end, I have other sister 540 in North Carolina. She is confused though. She thinks she is a bypass and has an estranged sister going by NC 540.
Another sibling 440 also lives in Raleigh. He thinks he's a bypass but really isn't much of one. Kind of an ego problem.
As for me, I'm getting long in the tooth as well. I give motorists fits in Arkansas from Little Rock to Memphis. I need to put on a bit of weight there since I'm so skinny.
Oh yes, I have another I-140 in Wilmington but she's a mess right now. She has a lot of growing up to do.
Annnd, I have a weird relationship with I-15 in Barstow. You see, there is no direct connection from me to I-15 north. Traffic must exit off of me right where I end, drive on a section courtesy of my dead uncle, US 66,  in which the cousin of I-15 took over. I-15 business, which took over my uncle in Barstow.
I have had a long life and I need fixing up all over. Parts of me have been fixed but other parts are in dire need of reconstructive surgery. That's the price you pay for taking over for your uncle.
I get a lot of flack for killing many a small town out west but hey, you got to take the bad with the good nowadays.
Well, that's all I have to say.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: sparker on August 04, 2016, 08:58:54 PM
Hey, all you good folks, it's I-680 up here in NorCal.  Not doing too badly, considering that all my neighbors dump all their traffic onto me!  Take my work buddy CA 24 -- ever since they denied him that promotion that would have taken him out to Pittsburg, just about every bit of work he does winds up on one of my on-ramps!  Sure, I can pass some of it on to that new kid, CA 242 (he's actually related to CA 24, but you wouldn't know it from looking at him!), but I still have to do a lot of grunt work before I can wave it goodbye.  And my sister, I-580, who works for the same company, ends up dumping all her San Jose traffic on me, even though it has to backtrack and take this little piss-ant loop ramp to get to me!  But that's all right, I'm tough enough to take all the crap that gets loaded onto me!  After all, I'm 71 miles long, bigger than most of my 3di brethren.  Being that long (and lean, if I don't mind saying so myself!) I've gotta expect to attract a lot more trouble than most of my family and friends.

And my landlords DID give me a nice, big new bridge just recently.  And they had the good sense to relocate the toll booth before the new bridge instead of where it was with the old one -- right smack at the north end!  Now I don't have traffic backing up onto my new toy!  But I still have issues with my ends -- both of them!  Down in San Jose, I really don't end (although every boss I've had thinks that I do!); I just pass about 70% of my traffic onto my brother, I-280.  Both of us used to have "END" signs at US 101, where all this happens, but they seem to disappear as soon as the landlord puts them up.  Frankly, once the burden's off me, I don't give a rat's ass where it goes!  Now let's get to the north end.  My little sister, I-780, got my old room in Vallejo; that was rather sparsely furnished, with a really dinky cloverleaf connecting to my dad's (I-80's) "man-cave", but my new room, which I got when they kicked that pesky CA 21 tenant out back in '74, is even worse.  It's really skinny, only 4 lanes total, and connects to my dad's room by this crappy old trumpet.  They're supposed to fix this problem, but they're not changing much except for adding a lane here and there -- all my dad's money went into a new set of truck scales east of that damn trumpet.  He does like his toys -- he partied for a year or two after he got that new "Zampa" bridge over the Carquinez (why they called it that is beyond me; if it were "Zappa", I could understand it, but whatever....it isn't my business!).  We'll just have to see what that trumpet looks like when -- and if -- the dust settles.  Oh, here's my dad now; he's got a question:

I-80 here.  Tell me, where do I end?  The state says I go all the way to US 101, but the Feds think I end where the Bay Bridge touches down in S.F.  I got signs saying I'm on the Skyway, but nobody gives me any money to touch up that thing, and it's a hell of lot older than I am, must be pushing 70!  And don't get me started on my son, 280 -- I never get to see him anymore.  Every time someone in the city gets a bug up their ass, they tear off a piece of him.  And they won't even put up decent overhead trailblazer signs on 101 saying to use it to get from him to me and vice-versa!  It's like they're ashamed of us or something!  I feel like the Marxist peasant in "Holy Grail":  "Help, Help, I'm being repressed!"  I'm just a poor parent who wants to have at least some contact with his kid, even it's just through signs!  Will someone help me......please?   
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: CtrlAltDel on August 06, 2016, 06:21:45 PM
Hello, I'm 290 in Illinois. Why don't you stop on by for a while?
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: epzik8 on August 10, 2016, 02:31:59 AM
My name is Interstate 97, or I-97 for short. And I am short. I'm less than 18 miles long and am situated entirely within one county! People think I'm weird for that, but I'm an important Interstate. I connect Baltimore, Maryland's largest city, to Annapolis, the state capital. I go right past the BWI Airport too. And I'm a vital part of the route from Baltimore to Southern Maryland and Richmond, Virginia! Some people think I'm too short for a mainline interstate, but the State Highway Administration seems content to keep me this way for now. I am I-97. I am the Baltimore-Annapolis corridor.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on August 10, 2016, 10:16:07 AM
Quote from: epzik8 on August 10, 2016, 02:31:59 AM
My name is Interstate 97, or I-97 for short. And I am short. I'm less than 18 miles long and am situated entirely within one county! People think I'm weird for that, but I'm an important Interstate. I connect Baltimore, Maryland's largest city, to Annapolis, the state capital. I go right past the BWI Airport too. And I'm a vital part of the route from Baltimore to Southern Maryland and Richmond, Virginia! Some people think I'm too short for a mainline interstate, but the State Highway Administration seems content to keep me this way for now. I am I-97. I am the Baltimore-Annapolis corridor.

Hey I-97.  Don't you think it's funny that you are the shortest mainline interstate terminating in the south at that longest unsigned interstate? Or is it ironic?  Or maybe just coincidence?  Or maybe its just kinda cool?

Sorry every one, he's part of my family, the Sevens.  I can give him a hard time.  My name is Interstate 37.  I live in South Texas and I am 143 miles long.  I start in the south in Corpus Christi the only joint terminus of a Interstate Highway, a US Highway and a State Highway in the country.  I leave the beach and go north to San Antonio and terminate into my cousin, Interstate 35.  For some reason, I continue as a freeway, but that jerk US 281 takes over my pavement.  I would like to continue north as an alternative to Austin (heck maybe a back road to Dallas/Ft. Worth).  I may be short, but I am pretty important.  I am a hurricane evacuation route, and I take that seriously. I go through some rough terrain, but not hilly, just tough if you don't have any water with you.  All my life I have been the connection from Corpus Christi to San Antonio, and indirectly to The Valley, but this new guy is coming in, maybe you know him.  I-69.  Yeah, but he goes by the name I-69E (or I-69W, I think he has a identity crisis down here).  Anyway, he will help me connect to all those people down in The Valley.  Isn't that sweet.

I have a brother in Texas with me.  I think you know him, Interstate 27.  Yeah, that guy.  He is kinda useless.  He terminates in the north at Interstate 40, all well and good, and he is short like me, but shorter at 124 miles.  Then he goes through Lubbock and just ends!!  Into a freeway too., but his evil twin Is US 87.  If he would stretch his legs just another 100 miles he could actually hookup with Interstate 40s brother, I-20.  Many think he needs to go north of Amarillo, which I agree, but he would then leave me in Texas alone. 
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: sparker on August 10, 2016, 05:32:54 PM
Can you hear me?  I'm so tiny, some folks completely forget I'm here.  I'm Oregon's version of I-405, the runt of the litter.  Compared with my middle brother in Seattle and that big bully brother in L.A., I don't really have all that much to do except distribute traffic from US 26 and 30, and serve as an object of scorn from local planning folks, especially at PSU -- their offices overlook my southern flanks.  At only a little over 4 miles long, I'd certainly have an inferiority complex.....

except......I'VE GOT THE BEST F---ING BRIDGE OF ALL YOU 405's!!!!  BIG OL' TIED ARCH, DOUBLE-DECKED!!  SO TAKE THAT AND PUT IT WHERE THE SUN DOESN'T SHINE!!!

Yeah, I know, I'm in Portland, and as just another road, I'm supposed to let the light rail, the trolley, and even the Amtrak Cascade service take center-stage, but......thanks, ODOT, for putting me on the neatest bridge in the state (sorry, Coos Bay).  By the way, when I'm not totally packed up with traffic from my white-shielded cohorts, I'm also the best way to get to Powell's* from just about anywhere in the metro area.  So I've got that going for me.....which is nice!

*for those not familiar with Portland, Powell's is 1 square city block of books.  Chances are if it's been published anywhere, Powell's has a copy.   
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: KG909 on September 01, 2016, 11:10:23 PM
Quote from: sparker on August 03, 2016, 02:39:51 AM
Hey guys, I'm I-210.  Yeah, the California one, not that poser in Louisiana!  I used to be fat, happy, and complete, until some yahoos decided I needed an extension out through Fontucky and San Berdoo.  Guess they thought with my number the whole thing'd be 7 times better than with the previous number they wanted to use.  But I got my sorry ass caught in bureaucratic hell -- they took my rear end away from me, although someone says I still own it -- but now it has big green "57" numbers slapped all over it like it was a bottle of Heinz sauce.  I was supposed to just walk my butt out to Redlands like I owned the road, but somehow those same mofos that talked me into getting that extension in the first place have hung me out to dry.  Now there's more goddam big-ass green signs, with MY number, on the road that should've been ME!  My uncle I-15 and cousin I-215 laugh like hyenas every time they cross what should have been my path.  I can't really blame 'em, not with my d--k hanging out in San Dimas with nowhere to go!  Shit, am I pathetic or what?  If I ever get hold of one of those morons who got me into this mess, I'm going to take one of those green 210 shields and shove it, point-first, right up their..........(transmission mercifully cut off here).       
"Fontucky"
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Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Darkchylde on September 02, 2016, 12:09:36 AM
Hello, I'm I-49. I wasn't originally planned, but I started out with a fairly important job - connecting three of western Louisiana's larger cities. And I did it well. But I'm not like that little girl over in the southeast part of the state, content to be a glorified I-10 bypass. I've got bigger aspirations. Now I'm going through some growth spurts, starting to make my presence known in Arkansas and Missouri. Hell, I'm even going to poke into Texas a little bit just because I can. As soon as I'm done filling out in all the right places, I'll connect Cajun Country to the Midwest... and you are going to love me.

I'm a little miffed about my north end though. Sure, I get to Kansas City... technically... but I end at two 3dis. Grandpappy 71 really needs to get rid of those three damn lights.
Title: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on July 06, 2022, 11:16:43 AM
Let's pretend every interstate is a person.  What would they say about themselves when introducing themselves?

I will go first with a bland one:

My name is Interstate 2.  I am the lowest numbered interstate.  Some people also call me by my nickname, US-83.  I am from South Texas and haven't traveled anywhere in my life.  I am a city boy so I don't know the country life.  I have never seen hills either.  I have two friends I see a lot, Interstate 69E and Interstate 69C, but they too haven't ever met any other interstates besides me.  I will one day grow to be a much more important figure, but sadly, I will still not leave the state of Texas, but I do have random mile markers that prove I will eventually travel outside of bubble! 
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: thspfc on July 06, 2022, 11:28:12 AM
Illinois I-180: I was born a mistake.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: Max Rockatansky on July 06, 2022, 11:28:47 AM
My name is Interstate 238.  Everyone hates me and bullied constantly by the road fan community.  I just want to get you between I-880 and I-580, why do you hate me so much?
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: NWI_Irish96 on July 06, 2022, 11:34:10 AM
My name is the Indiana Toll Road/I-80/I-90. I'm a prostitute. I cost money and get a lot of traffic.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: US 89 on July 06, 2022, 11:36:50 AM
I know I’ve posted this before, but the only thing I can think of whenever I see a thread like this is this insanity (https://intertropolisandrouteville.fandom.com/wiki/Intertropolis_%26_Routeville)
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: MATraveler128 on July 06, 2022, 01:21:13 PM
Hi. I'm I-180, the one in Wyoming of course. I'm an arterial in Cheyenne with traffic lights and a diamond interchange at my parent that just so happens to be an Interstate.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: JayhawkCO on July 06, 2022, 01:24:12 PM
Hello, I'm I-70. I'm a little bit of a introverted extravert. I love climbing mountains and running in deserts, but I also like to just hang out at a nice Park & Ride. Baltimore is my favorite city and I'm glad I live there.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: skluth on July 06, 2022, 01:54:44 PM
I'm I-180 in Illinois. I'm stubborn and no how much you want me to go away, I'm still here.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: MoiraPrime on July 06, 2022, 02:02:13 PM
Quote from: US 89 on July 06, 2022, 11:36:50 AM
I know I've posted this before, but the only thing I can think of whenever I see a thread like this is this insanity (https://intertropolisandrouteville.fandom.com/wiki/Intertropolis_%26_Routeville)

Ha, I've seen that before. It keeps randomly popping up in search engine results when I try looking for real highway information. Really annoying. They seem to have accidentally cornered the SEO market on wiki pages about roads..
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: CtrlAltDel on July 06, 2022, 02:07:38 PM
I'm I-295. I'm one of a group of octuplets, but we are all very different from one another. Most of us aren't really close, but some of us are.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on July 06, 2022, 02:08:24 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on July 06, 2022, 01:24:12 PM
Hello, I'm I-70. I'm a little bit of a introverted extravert. I love climbing mountains and running in deserts, but I also like to just hang out at a nice Park & Ride. Baltimore is my favorite city and I'm glad I live there.

You didn't mention that I-70 has a severed leg that forces you to use someone else's leg to get to the rest of the leg. 
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: Great Lakes Roads on July 06, 2022, 02:23:42 PM
Hello, I'm I-69. I have started up the routing from NE Indianapolis to Lansing, but I have been extended EASTword to Port Huron, MI. I have recently been extended south to Evansville and beyond to Texas with THREE separate endpoints: Laredo, McAllen, and Brownsville. 

It's been a work in progress with Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana having no funds for work on me.  :angry:
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: SkyPesos on July 06, 2022, 04:11:20 PM
Hello, I'm I-366. I don't exist yet, but when I do, you all will enjoy driving at 85 mph.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: SkyPesos on July 06, 2022, 04:17:58 PM
Quote from: ethanhopkin14 on July 06, 2022, 02:08:24 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on July 06, 2022, 01:24:12 PM
Hello, I'm I-70. I'm a little bit of a introverted extravert. I love climbing mountains and running in deserts, but I also like to just hang out at a nice Park & Ride. Baltimore is my favorite city and I'm glad I live there.

You didn't mention that I-70 has a severed leg that forces you to use someone else's leg to get to the rest of the leg.
Relationships for I-70:

US 40 - Father
US 50 - Mother
US 6 - Uncle
US 30 - Aunt (thanks for taking care of my broken leg)
I-68 - Sibling
I-80 - Half-sibling (their mom is US 30)
I-66 - Half-sibling
I-76 - Cousin (parents are US 6 and US 30)
I-84 - Cousin (parents are US 6 and US 30)
I-75 - love interest (somehow got together after both getting rejected by I-95)

Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: Evan_Th on July 06, 2022, 04:25:05 PM
Quote from: SkyPesos on July 06, 2022, 04:17:58 PM
I-75 - love interest (somehow got together after both getting rejected by I-95)

Nah, they passed by each other in Dayton but didn't actually stay together.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on July 06, 2022, 04:26:22 PM
Quote from: SkyPesos on July 06, 2022, 04:17:58 PM
Quote from: ethanhopkin14 on July 06, 2022, 02:08:24 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on July 06, 2022, 01:24:12 PM
Hello, I'm I-70. I'm a little bit of a introverted extravert. I love climbing mountains and running in deserts, but I also like to just hang out at a nice Park & Ride. Baltimore is my favorite city and I'm glad I live there.

You didn't mention that I-70 has a severed leg that forces you to use someone else's leg to get to the rest of the leg.
Relationships for I-70:

US 40 - Father
US 50 - Mother
US 6 - Uncle
US 30 - Aunt (thanks for taking care of my broken leg)
I-68 - Sibling
I-80 - Half-sibling (their mom is US 30)
I-66 - Half-sibling
I-76 - Cousin (parents are US 6 and US 30)
I-84 - Cousin (parents are US 6 and US 30)
I-75 - love interest (somehow got together after both getting rejected by I-95)

What about I-15?  He has a hand in I-70's birth correct?
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on July 06, 2022, 04:27:59 PM
Quote from: Evan_Th on July 06, 2022, 04:25:05 PM
Quote from: SkyPesos on July 06, 2022, 04:17:58 PM
I-75 - love interest (somehow got together after both getting rejected by I-95)

Nah, they passed by each other in Dayton but didn't actually stay together.

Summer fling?
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: SkyPesos on July 06, 2022, 04:29:15 PM
Quote from: ethanhopkin14 on July 06, 2022, 04:26:22 PM
Quote from: SkyPesos on July 06, 2022, 04:17:58 PM
Quote from: ethanhopkin14 on July 06, 2022, 02:08:24 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on July 06, 2022, 01:24:12 PM
Hello, I'm I-70. I'm a little bit of a introverted extravert. I love climbing mountains and running in deserts, but I also like to just hang out at a nice Park & Ride. Baltimore is my favorite city and I'm glad I live there.

You didn't mention that I-70 has a severed leg that forces you to use someone else's leg to get to the rest of the leg.
Relationships for I-70:

US 40 - Father
US 50 - Mother
US 6 - Uncle
US 30 - Aunt (thanks for taking care of my broken leg)
I-68 - Sibling
I-80 - Half-sibling (their mom is US 30)
I-66 - Half-sibling
I-76 - Cousin (parents are US 6 and US 30)
I-84 - Cousin (parents are US 6 and US 30)
I-75 - love interest (somehow got together after both getting rejected by I-95)

What about I-15?  He has a hand in I-70's birth correct?
I-70 didn't meet I-15 until they got older. I-25 was one of the first people I-70 has met though.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: CtrlAltDel on July 06, 2022, 04:39:32 PM
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on July 06, 2022, 02:23:42 PM
Hello, I'm I-69. I have started up the routing from NE Indianapolis to Lansing, but I have been extended EASTword to Port Huron, MI. I have recently been extended south to Evansville and beyond to Texas with THREE separate endpoints: Laredo, McAllen, and Brownsville. 

It's been a work in progress with Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana having no funds for work on me.  :angry:

I-69 is still going through puberty.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: tsmatt13 on July 06, 2022, 04:45:36 PM
Hello, I'm I-49. A random segment of me exists between Barling and White Bluff, Arkansas, and I am going through an existential crisis every day until that segment finally connects with the rest of me.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: SkyPesos on July 06, 2022, 05:02:56 PM
For a long time, I-70 was jealous that his older sibling I-80 had two branches to the west coast (San Francisco and Portland) and was hoping that his brother can give the San Francisco one to him after he makes it out of Denver to SLC. But I-70 was a procrastinator, so he didn't try to get from Denver to SLC the first moment he could; he waited for a while. Unfortunately, he waited too long and, a new rule passed that highways can't have self-numbered branches. Because I-70 wasn't even close to SLC yet, US 30 gave birth to a new child (I-84) to take over Portland from I-80. This shattered all dreams of I-70 making it to San Francisco, and the west coast as a whole. After some years, I-70 made his trek west across the mountains and desert but following his mom and uncle (US 50 and US 6) instead of his dad as he originally wanted to. In the middle of the desert, he came across I-15. Those two quickly became friends, with I-15 offering to permanently accommodate I-70's west end in this remote environment, and where it has been since.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: Hobart on July 06, 2022, 10:24:21 PM
My name is Interstate 57. I'm 63 years old. My birthplace is in the southwest section of Chicago, where all the villas are, and I am not married.

My father, I-94, told me, "You, my son, you will have all of the figgy pudding." He told me the story about how he was a mama's boy, always coming back to I-90... my grandmother, if you will. He seemed to take the less efficient route... seeing her join with prostitutes (toll roads) really upset him, even after their lovely time together in Wisconsin. "We tried to have you and I-55 sooner (further north, in Wisconsin)," he said, "but some... government agency in Illinois put a stop to it."

He said he had me because he was worried about my brother, who seemed more obsessed with going to Saint Louis than anything. He was worried about the beeline I-55 made, how it wasn't an effective way to go south, but told me about a wonderful place called Little Rock, the land of Bill Clinton, an epic saxophone player. I wanted to go there, so I started.

I was a bit nervous at first... the south side is scary. I'm pitted up by it to this day. I eventually got out of there, met a kind fellow named I-80, and continued southwest. He seemed like a jolly old guy... I heard from the grapevine that I-80 told I-94 about me, and that it was a very good goal, extraordinarily commendable.

I roamed south across Illinois, joined hands with I-70 and I-64 and sang koom-by-yah I guess, but... they weren't really my type. I-70 was the most beautiful woman I've ever met, and I-64 was the most handsome, but... I don't know... I had one kid, I guess... I think it was from 64. I sent Interstate 24 to Florida. "Conquer the southeast for me," I told him as a little boy. "Go over the mountains and get me to Disney World!" I could tell my time was getting close. I couldn't do it myself... I barely even made it halfway to Little Rock!

The hills ended, and I hopped the Mississippi, like my father, mother, and the east-west friends I made along the way. I even made friends with US 60, we shared real estate for a bit.

In Sikeston, I met my brother. He killed me, but I took it. No children, no x5 glory, no major cities outside of Illinois... I had nothing. I told 60 to get to Little Rock for me... He said he might know a guy. I hope he was right.

Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: Flint1979 on July 06, 2022, 10:46:19 PM
Hi I'm I-75 I'm a pain in everyone's ass.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: Max Rockatansky on July 06, 2022, 11:47:09 PM
I'm Interstate 305, I live in Sacramento.  You've probably never heard of me, but I've been around for a while now.  Most people in Sacramento don't recognize me since I dress up like a US Route.  I'm related to Interstate 80, but I don't talk about that because of California State Route 51.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: kurumi on July 07, 2022, 02:17:23 AM
See also: "Stories of Interstates (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=1722)" thread from 2009
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: WillWeaverRVA on July 07, 2022, 08:34:46 AM
Quote from: US 89 on July 06, 2022, 11:36:50 AM
I know I've posted this before, but the only thing I can think of whenever I see a thread like this is this insanity (https://intertropolisandrouteville.fandom.com/wiki/Intertropolis_%26_Routeville)

oh hell, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread's title (and its creator's dedication to it honestly frightens me)
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: Henry on July 08, 2022, 10:52:44 AM
Hello, I'm I-40. I go from the Golden State to the Tar Heel State, and have been to many great cities in the South and Southwest, such as Albuquerque, Oklahoma City, Little Rock, Memphis and Nashville. Originally, I was going to end in Greensboro, but then I wanted to see the Atlantic Ocean, so they sent me to Wilmington via Raleigh. I despise I-85 because it runs east-west alongside me, and I also hate I-26 because it runs north-south through Asheville to the Tri-Cities of TN and Charleston, SC, but that's for another story, and I would like to hear them explain themselves why they got mixed up the way they were. Anyway, my dream was to go to Los Angeles, until I-15 and I-10 denied me that opportunity, but I'm hoping to reach Bakersfield and somewhere even further west of I-5, because I want to reach the Pacific Ocean someday. Caltrans needs to make it happen, and soon, because Barstow is not exactly a tourist destination, but knowing them, they're notorious for procrastinating on things like this. Oh, and one more thing: I'm good friends with Route 66, and I felt bad for taking over most of the western half of its path, so they made it a Historic Route, which I call a victory for both of us.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: bing101 on July 08, 2022, 02:01:51 PM
Hello I am I-710 and I am one of two 3dis in California most known for Truck Traffic because we happen to be located near ports. The other interstate in California in this situation is I-880.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: ethanhopkin14 on July 08, 2022, 03:17:47 PM
I-8 here.  I was born in the prefect beach weather of San Diego, California and immediately met two friends as a youngster, I-5 and I-15.  Life was cool and hip and exciting in my youth, so I decided after college to head east and see the world.  I passed the mountains east of El Cajon and wack!!  I was in the desert.  No water, no shade...I wasn't prepare for that.  I spent my 20s and 30s trying to get out of California (and not accidently end up in Mexico).  I had never felt more alone.  Then I cross the Colorado River into Arizona and finally saw a good sized city.  It was okay, but people don't do much out in Yuma, so I went on...and on... and on...  Unfortunately my 40s and 50s were much the same.  Empty and alone.  I even crossed Telegraph pass where my legs got tangled and I was really messed up.  Toward the end of my life, I was ragged.  I was only 55 years old but had the face of a 122 year old man! I finally met another friend after all these years, I-10.  He's another main interstate, which is all I have ever known...but he killed me.  As I was dying, he said "let me take your soul where I am going".  He did.   I was able to see the rest of the USA!  When I-10 finally comes to rest in Jacksonville, FL, I am there.  I am there in spirit.  Most people don't remember me.  I seem to be forgotten because I-10's family of zeros overshadow me.  I may not be a zero, but I do act like it.  Please, don't forget me.  I am always there in your hearts when you reach the east coast for the sacrifices I made in the west!
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: I-55 on July 11, 2022, 11:42:07 PM
Hi, I'm I-840. My parents planned to have me in 1991, but it took them a few years to actually come through. I was born August 2, 1995 and stopped growing in 2017 when I was 17. I graduated from Interstate University in 2016 in just 3 years. I'm 6'4 (76") but I wish I was about 9' 3" taller so I could reach my friends in the northern suburbs of Middle Tennessee. I still live off my mom, I-40, who feeds me most of my traffic. As the area grows, I believe I will have the opportunity to be more independent of my mother as more traffic will come from within the region. I'm jealous of my brother, I-440, because I'm a baseball fan and he gets to watch Vandy play all the time while I'm stuck with MTSU. I guess that's what I get for being the youngest in the family. I-640 is still recovering from this recent postseason. He's probably on his third bottle of Jack Daniels by now. I-240 still thinks she's recovering form the 12 inches she's lost to Mom in the "incident". Oh well, I gotta get back to lobbying for my northward expedition so I can steal more traffic from my neighbors, I-24 and I-65. See y'all 'round.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: Henry on July 12, 2022, 02:33:24 PM
Here's the story of the stillborn I-50 and I-60:

When Dwight Eisenhower first laid out the Interstate Highway System in 1956, he decided to reverse the grid of the existing U.S. Highways so that duplication would not be a problem. And for the most part, he had everything covered except for the areas that contained US 50 and US 60. The large gap between I-40 and I-70 is very obvious, in part because I-50 and I-60 would've run through the exact same states that their same-numbered US counterparts did, so it was best to abort them and let them only exist in a fantasy world. The closest either of those two routes have come to exist is the 2002 film Interstate 60 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_60), and also in the Fictional Highways section of this forum, but as a consolation prize, we saw US 400 and US 412 rise from the ashes.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: Hobart on July 13, 2022, 08:49:27 PM
I-190 in Chicago would be rather brief.

"Wow! I can't believe my dad gave me the Kennedy! Everything's gonna be so exciting... there's Rosemont with that convention where people wear animal costumes in December, there's I-294! Hi, I-294!"

"Who the heck is Bessie Coleman?"

"Am I entering... an airport? Are those... CDOT guys maintaining me?"

I-190 would begin to scream as it faces agony that is only ended by hitting the actual entrance part of O'Hare Airport. Its high hopes given to it by taking over the Kennedy Expressway from its father, I-90, would be dashed in a cruel end to its short life.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: Roadgeekteen on July 14, 2022, 02:14:34 AM
I created a fictional road universe with interstates as characters as a kid. I tried posting it here and the mods locked it instantly.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: triplemultiplex on July 14, 2022, 04:33:59 PM
I-90 and I-94 would have a sort of on again, off again thing going on between them.
They got together in Wisconsin, but then things got weird when they tried to become a throuple with I-39 so 94 bailed.  90 stayed with 39 for a while, but couldn't resist the pull of the big city.  39 is a country girl, though so they broke up.  While in the city, 90 and 94 ran into each other again and got back together.

See, after bailing on the three-way, 94 hooked up with 41, but 41 up and died on 94.  So 94 was still on the rebound when it bumped into 90 again.  But it wasn't as good as the first time so they broke up again.  94 found a younger mate in the form of I-80.  But when they bumped into the ex in Indiana, that sneaky bastard 90 up and stole 80 from 94.  So 94 headed off to retire up by the lakes while 90 and 80 stayed together quite a while.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: highwaytuna on July 14, 2022, 07:57:30 PM
Hey there, I'm I-895. My parents love children dearly and have an extraordinary capacity to raise them. They are free spirits; they lived fruitful lives travelling up and down the East Coast, visiting all the major cities, and having children as they went. Unfortunately, their plan to grow a large family didn't quite turn out the way they wanted it to. One of my siblings didn't make it past his first birthday, and two didn't even make it out of the womb. I do have one brother though; he lives in a nice little place next to the river in the Bronx. He's about to reach his 50's, but he had to go through reconstructive surgery a few years back. They took out quite a number of body parts from him, something he calls "a degrading experience". As for myself, I am 43 and live in Baltimore. Miraculously, I am a triplet, and the three of us leech off of each other all the time. When I was born, I got to keep my name, but since I was the first one to come out of the womb, the others are simply called A and B -- some weird naming convention my parents came up with, probably. I don't really know what's going on between the two of them, but rumors has it that they're both competing over I-97, who due to her shortness is just as much of an outlier as they are.

(Context: Almost all designations of I-895 were either planned but cancelled, or withdrawn at some point in a highway's history.)
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: KCRoadFan on July 14, 2022, 11:08:40 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on July 14, 2022, 04:33:59 PM
I-90 and I-94 would have a sort of on again, off again thing going on between them.
They got together in Wisconsin, but then things got weird when they tried to become a throuple with I-39 so 94 bailed.  90 stayed with 39 for a while, but couldn't resist the pull of the big city.  39 is a country girl, though so they broke up.  While in the city, 90 and 94 ran into each other again and got back together.

See, after bailing on the three-way, 94 hooked up with 41, but 41 up and died on 94.  So 94 was still on the rebound when it bumped into 90 again.  But it wasn't as good as the first time so they broke up again.  94 found a younger mate in the form of I-80.  But when they bumped into the ex in Indiana, that sneaky bastard 90 up and stole 80 from 94.  So 94 headed off to retire up by the lakes while 90 and 80 stayed together quite a while.

What would be the metaphor for the start of I-94 on I-90 in Montana? Met as high school classmates, went their separate ways in college, and found each other later, working at the same company in Tomah, Wisconsin?
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: WillWeaverRVA on July 15, 2022, 08:21:55 AM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 14, 2022, 02:14:34 AM
I created a fictional road universe with interstates as characters as a kid. I tried posting it here and the mods locked it instantly.

Given the horror that is Intertropolis & Routeville, that seems a little unfair as there's no way your fictional road universe could be as bad as that.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: SEWIGuy on July 15, 2022, 08:38:13 AM
Quote from: KCRoadFan on July 14, 2022, 11:08:40 PM
Quote from: triplemultiplex on July 14, 2022, 04:33:59 PM
I-90 and I-94 would have a sort of on again, off again thing going on between them.
They got together in Wisconsin, but then things got weird when they tried to become a throuple with I-39 so 94 bailed.  90 stayed with 39 for a while, but couldn't resist the pull of the big city.  39 is a country girl, though so they broke up.  While in the city, 90 and 94 ran into each other again and got back together.

See, after bailing on the three-way, 94 hooked up with 41, but 41 up and died on 94.  So 94 was still on the rebound when it bumped into 90 again.  But it wasn't as good as the first time so they broke up again.  94 found a younger mate in the form of I-80.  But when they bumped into the ex in Indiana, that sneaky bastard 90 up and stole 80 from 94.  So 94 headed off to retire up by the lakes while 90 and 80 stayed together quite a while.

What would be the metaphor for the start of I-94 on I-90 in Montana? Met as high school classmates, went their separate ways in college, and found each other later, working at the same company in Tomah, Wisconsin?


Got divorced around Madison - the threesome with I-39 was a little too much to handle for I-94.

Eventually they had a final fling in Chicago (after I-94's weird relationship with I-41 unexpectedly ended) before I-90 finally hooked up with I-80.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: VetteDriver16 on July 15, 2022, 10:28:38 AM
I'm Interstate 99.  I was "fathered" by Bud Shuster out of wedlock.  Everyone hates me because (1) I'm always "out of place" and (2) spend a lot of time with my cousin US-15.

I'm Interstate 285.  I matured too fast and never had a chance to develop and grow like most of my interstate brethren. 

I'm Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway).  I'm the butt of political jokes.

I'm Interstate 4.  For some reason I'm identified with suburban swing voters.

I'm Interstate 275 (Cincinnati).  I'm neglected by most I-75 motorists once they figure out I'm bloated and worthless. 

I'm Interstate 696.  I'm just an ugly 8-lane slab of below grade concrete.

I'm Interstate 894.  It seems everyone on the AA Roads Forum wants me to just go away. 

I'm Interstate 210 (California).  I want to be an official member of the club, especially in San Bernardino.  But Caltrans or someone won't include me.   

I'm Interstate 495 (Massachusetts).  I'm a grown-up now. 
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: JayhawkCO on July 15, 2022, 11:45:58 AM
Hi. I'm I-225. I'm an only child. I like to play with trains.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: Henry on July 15, 2022, 01:27:45 PM
We're the quadruplets I-395 and I-695. We are very close to each other, because half of us reside in Baltimore and the other half in Washington. The Baltimore version of I-695 was always the very popular kid because it knew how to direct motorists around the city while going through the nicest suburbs in the state. I-395 in DC was sort of a rebel because it stole its parent's route in 1977 after plans to go through the District were scrapped. I-395 in Baltimore was the busy guy who helped I-95 users get in and out of downtown. And finally, DC's I-695 was the forgotten one, because no one knew or cared that it ever existed in the first place. Lots of people thought it was an extension of I-295, which it never was, and even after signs began to pop up, everybody assumed that it would somehow warp them to the same-numbered Beltway 35 miles to the north. I-495 is our big brother who acts as a bully and is easily overloaded with through traffic to the east, no wonder even I-95 hates it. But I-95 will do anything for us because it loves us all the same.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: MoiraPrime on July 19, 2022, 01:53:21 AM
I'm Mississippi's Interstate 110. Everyone hates me because I cut the city of Biloxi in half. I feature a drawbridge that rarely opens, but when it does have to open it always gets stuck. Both of my southbound offramps at US 90 have insanely sharp and dangerous curves.

I set such a bad example in Biloxi that I caused my sibling in Gulfport, Interstate 310, to never get built.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: bing101 on July 19, 2022, 09:41:36 AM
I-280 California
Hello I seen both San Jose and San Francisco but I also take a scenic tour near the Bay Area portion of the San Andreas fault along the way where there are some wonderful hills and forest section. However I was originally supposed to connect to CA-480 and I-80 back when Mission Bay was an industrial wasteland. Now I see this area as the most gentrified part of San Francisco for the past two decades. Well I am not like US-101 Bayshore where I am near businesses.

I-380 I was supposed to connect to Half Moon Bay to I-238 but was prevented from doing so for landslide reasons and I am near the airport too.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: MATraveler128 on July 19, 2022, 10:43:34 AM
I'm I-476. Some call me the Blue Route and others call me the Northeast Extension of my cousin the PA Turnpike. I've been the longest 3 digit Interstate for 26 years since overtaking I-495 up in Massachusetts. Although some want to get rid of me because I function more as a 2di.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: skluth on July 19, 2022, 02:32:42 PM
Quote from: ethanhopkin14 on July 06, 2022, 02:08:24 PM
Quote from: JayhawkCO on July 06, 2022, 01:24:12 PM
Hello, I'm I-70. I'm a little bit of a introverted extravert. I love climbing mountains and running in deserts, but I also like to just hang out at a nice Park & Ride. Baltimore is my favorite city and I'm glad I live there.

You didn't mention that I-70 has a severed leg that forces you to use someone else's leg to get to the rest of the leg.

That's because I'm old. I'm the oldest interstate. Not as impressive as being the oldest human art (https://www.history.com/news/prehistoric-cave-paintings-early-humans) or the oldest bridge in Europe (https://greekreporter.com/2022/05/29/greece-home-oldest-bridge-europe-still-use/), but still pretty cool (https://www.theclio.com/entry/39514). There are some older highways that are now interstate but I was the first highway built specifically as interstate (https://www.theclio.com/entry/39514) which makes me pretty special. Some people argue this (https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/when-and-where-was-the-first-highway-built-in-the-us.html); they can get off my concrete.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: epzik8 on July 20, 2022, 11:29:55 AM
I'm Interstate 97. I used to be called Maryland Route 3, and then they upgraded me. A lot of people think I should have three numbers. Why? Doesn't connecting the state capital and the largest city merit only two?
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: skluth on July 20, 2022, 04:52:19 PM
I'm I-11. I'm just a child compared to most of the other interstates, born in 2017 (https://www.reviewjournal.com/traffic/2-5-mile-segment-of-southbound-i-11-opens-to-traffic/). I may be young and small now but I have big plans. My goal is to extend from Southern Arizona to at least I-80 though it may take decades before I reach my full size. I may even grow as far as Boise or Redding. I have a lot of friends who can barely wait for me to grow up but fortunately I'm a patient highway.
Title: Re: If Every Interstate Were a Person, What Would Their Story Be?
Post by: kurumi on July 21, 2022, 04:52:18 PM
So my big brother was going to move to Providence way back in the day and I had my own place for a while. Pretty small, but they were doing a complete remodel and my neck of the woods was going to look really nice and modern. Also I would extend across the river to I-91 in Wethersfield, how cool would that be?

But my brother (I-84) ran into some problems and eventually had to come back home and kick me out. However, meanwhile I was able to find a new place in Idaho, next to a guy with the same name as my brother! What a coincidence. I was also small there ("small potatoes" hahaha get it, it's Idaho), and didn't even cross a state line.

But that's not the end of it! A couple decades later, I'm back in the northeast, in New York state! (but also in Idaho... I'm nationwide!) I'm intersecting I-90 again! And I'm almost as long as "big" brother eastern I-84 already -- and later on, I'll be much longer (about 370 miles), and will be intersecting my big brother again. But things will be different now.

So TL;DR I'm back, I'm here to stay, I'm better than ever, and no hard feelings but all you haters can suck it.  I-86 out.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Gnutella on July 26, 2022, 06:58:16 AM
Hi, I'm I-84 of the East. Though many people forget that I exist, I serve a vital purpose, helping people travel between Pennsylvania and New England without having to pass through New York City. Not only am I built for your convenience, but I'm also quite scenic, and the leaves around me in the fall change colors like this: :colorful:
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: Hunty2022 on September 06, 2022, 08:23:45 PM
Hello, I'm the Eastern I-264. I enjoy bragging to all my siblings on how I get to be at the beach! My parent (I-64) tried to replace me back in 1997, but I got to consume VA-44, which allowed me to be at the beach! I've grown up to 8 lanes in parts, but I get to take all the tourists to the oceanfront!  :D
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: gonealookin on September 06, 2022, 08:47:36 PM
I'm Interstate 580.  Most people think I'm in California but they don't know who I really am.  I am in Nevada.

It has taken over 50 years to build me to my full length and we're still not done.  Somebody needs to pay for the SPUI at my south end and that doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon.  Get to it, Nevada!  There are some politicians from the Las Vegas area who think I look fat in this six-lane dress from south Reno to Washoe Valley.  They would have preferred a slimmer four-lane look and maybe that's why the SPUI funds are being withheld.

Only the geekiest of road geeks even knew I existed until about 10 years ago when I finally got some red, white and blue shields.  Prior to that people called my various bits and pieces "US 395".  Well, ha, "US 395" is my maiden name now; I'm pretty much universally known as "I-580" locally and although I have black and white US 395 shields posted for my entire length that designation is mostly ignored.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: bing101 on September 07, 2022, 05:35:34 PM
Quote from: SSOWorld on October 09, 2009, 05:56:02 PM
I-305 here, not many people know who I am, really.  You would think I would be some freeway in San Diego or Los Angeles?  Nope.  I'm in Sacramento.  But no one would know that since I'm hidden.  I'm actually referred to as Business Loop I-80 or the Capital City Freeway. - at least part of it.  See they wouldn't let me have all of it because they told me it doesn't meet the standards.  I should be I-880.  The current I-880 should be I-180 and that California state route in Fresno should be a different number.  There are other freeways that don't meet standards that have interstate designations, why can't my junior cousin that is linked to me?
Howdy there I am I-505  we are two of three interstates with the I-x05  that have a NorCal location. Initially I was originally born as I-5w connecting from I-5 to  I-80 and when US-50 went to Oakland. Note parts of me became cut up as I-580, I-205 and I-80.  I started out as a bypass around downtown Sacramento and went from Winters,  Vacaville, to Oakland via I-80, from Oakland to Tracy on then US-50.  This is before US-50 met you in Downtown Sacramento.  I am a remainder of I-5w at my core I deal with people from Redding who want to go to the Bay Area and vice versa.
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: bing101 on September 07, 2022, 05:42:53 PM


Hello I am I-405 Washington I get mistaken for I-405 Los Angeles but then again in my case the famous people I see are Amazon and Microsoft management heading to their offices. But I get asked the question about seeing celebrities in traffic and I go huh??? But still there is traffic in the Seattle area.

Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: CtrlAltDel on September 07, 2022, 07:22:48 PM
I-180: "Look Mom, I'm an interstate."
Title: Re: Stories of interstates
Post by: bing101 on September 07, 2022, 09:43:22 PM
I am I-405 San Diego Freeway in the Los Angeles area I am the butt of jokes for most jammed freeway in North America. However, I have been tied with ON-401 the most jammed road in Canada, I-610 In Houston and I-95 for most jammed freeway in the USA.

Hello I-605 here I have the strangest control cities on my route it's Thru Traffic. However I am really going from Seal Beach to Duarte. I am near the industrial areas of Los Angeles County along this route.

Hello I am I-105 I go from the i-605 to I-405 my siblings but I don't see my parent I-5 in the Southland. Yes I was CA-42 when I was considered but then again at least I am turning 30 soon.