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Mountain West / Re: Colorado

Last post by LilianaUwU - April 15, 2024, 11:42:02 PM

Looks like the state highway shield got a redesign. I personally don't like it much standalone, but I've seen it on BGS plans and I really like it there.

#2

General Highway Talk / Re: What's the Closest Interst...

Last post by Scott5114 - April 15, 2024, 11:41:03 PM

I'm roughly equidistant from both I-17 and I-210 in CA.

#3

Off-Topic / Re: Random Thoughts

Last post by jlam - April 15, 2024, 11:34:51 PM

Today marks one year since I converted to taking horizontal road pictures.

The only way to take road pictures. There's typically much more to look at on the sides of the road than in the sky.

#4

Off-Topic / Re: Technology Random Access T...

Last post by Scott5114 - April 15, 2024, 11:26:33 PM

To that grade school/junior high/high school teacher who insisted that calculators be banned and that we had to figure it out manually, with the reasoning that you would never carry a calculator around with you... how many scientific calculator apps are available for download now? Of course, because of cheating and such, there are only certain calculators that are approved for major exams, and they better have no WiFi connectivity.

Not to mention that, in the real world, anyone that cares about your answers being right would absolutely prefer you to use a calculator rather than relying on your thirty-year-old memories of the times table. When I worked as a casino cashier they supplied one of those huge ten-key adding machines for each cashier window. We were encouraged to use it any time we had even a shadow of a doubt that we had the total right. Better to take a minute to punch up the total on the ten-key than to think you have it right and overpay someone.

#5

Mid-Atlantic / Re: Virginia

Last post by Dirt Roads - April 15, 2024, 10:40:28 PM

Is it my understanding that Y suffix routes in the commonwealth are designated for spur or branch routes connecting other highways?

Y routes have been used to do two things in Virginia:

1. connect two routes, usually (but not always) in a Y-intersection setup
2. short spurs of a route to a town/village

Virginia no longer designates new Y routes.  The last one was added in the 1970s.

We railroaders prefer to spell it as "wye-intersection".   

#6

General Highway Talk / Re: What's the Closest Interst...

Last post by Great Lakes Roads - April 15, 2024, 10:35:58 PM

2di: I-99 (PA/NY)
3di: I-165 (KY)

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Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Ohio

Last post by lepidopteran - April 15, 2024, 10:33:55 PM

On I-75, the Hancock County Rd. 99 interchange is to be replaced with a diverging diamond.

#8

Southeast / Re: Interstate 42

Last post by bob7374 - April 15, 2024, 10:24:34 PM

Google Maps has updated its Street View coverage along US 70 between US 17 in New Bern and NC 101 in Havelock. I have made many screen captures of construction through James City:


and of the western end of the Havelock Bypass:


and have placed them on my Future I-42 in NC page:
in the Segment 6 and 7 photo sections.

#9

Sports / Re: Arizona Coyotes players ap...

Last post by Hunty2022 - April 15, 2024, 09:46:56 PM

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordfinder/classic/ends/all/-1/zz/1

How bout the Utah Razzmatazz?

#10

General Highway Talk / Re: What's the Closest Interst...

Last post by Hunty2022 - April 15, 2024, 09:43:04 PM

2di: I-70 (possibly I-68)

3di: I-395 (VA/DC)