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Re: Weird Routes
« Reply #50 on: August 14, 2021, 10:17:47 PM »

Another one in my mind: US 68. Goes completely E-W for the westernmost third of the route, then SW-NE for the middle third, then a straight N-S in Ohio. Wasted 2dus number that could've been used on a route like US 412, and US 68 acts like, and fits better as a number like 162.

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« Reply #51 on: August 14, 2021, 11:13:36 PM »

US 101, despite it being a two digit number with three digits, it’s northern hook around to head south again to Olympia, WA is crazy.  It should end in Port Angela’s as you have the Victoria Ferry there to Canada. The rest of the Route could be a WA State designation of some other number.
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Re: Weird Routes
« Reply #52 on: August 15, 2021, 12:49:27 AM »

US-62 has to be on the list. What does that route do? It's several distinct useful state highways plus a variety of segments that only need to be county roads, all branded with one number.
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« Reply #53 on: August 15, 2021, 01:11:23 AM »

US 202 is just overall weird.  North-South in some states, East-West in others (both in CT).  More than half of it is multiplexed with other routes.  In DE, it spawns a state route with the same number after a pair of totally unnecessary concurrencies with DE 141 and I-95 (it begins as a concurrency with DE 141 over 600 miles from its parent).  It could easily be decommissioned and replaced with the extension or rerouting of several routes.
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Re: Weird Routes
« Reply #54 on: August 15, 2021, 06:16:11 AM »

US 101, despite it being a two digit number with three digits, it’s northern hook around to head south again to Olympia, WA is crazy.  It should end in Port Angela’s as you have the Victoria Ferry there to Canada. The rest of the Route could be a WA State designation of some other number.

Having the bulk of the Olympic Loop under one number makes more sense.
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Re: Weird Routes
« Reply #55 on: August 15, 2021, 09:52:32 AM »

US 101 should be upgraded toan expressway it's entire length and be designated I-1.
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« Reply #56 on: August 15, 2021, 09:59:20 AM »

Georgia SR 20.. I feel like GDOT was bored when they made this a route.
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Re: Weird Routes
« Reply #57 on: August 15, 2021, 10:10:49 AM »

US 101 should be upgraded toan expressway it's entire length and be designated I-1.
Why did that read like something that FritzOwl would say?

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« Reply #58 on: August 15, 2021, 10:16:45 AM »

US 101 should be upgraded toan expressway it's entire length and be designated I-1.

Good luck with Last Chance Grade. They can’t even come up with a bypass for it due to environmental impacts of the area, so a freeway there would be next a miracle to obtain.
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Re: Weird Routes
« Reply #59 on: August 15, 2021, 10:37:07 AM »

US 101 should be upgraded toan expressway it's entire length and be designated I-1.

Clearly someone who hasn’t driven it much.
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Re: Weird Routes
« Reply #60 on: August 15, 2021, 10:45:22 AM »

Nope, never been to California, but I mean they have an interstate 2 but not a 1!!! If they had an I-1, I would fly to CA just to drive on it.
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« Reply #61 on: August 15, 2021, 10:52:31 AM »

Nope, never been to California, but I mean they have an interstate 2 but not a 1!!! If they had an I-1, I would fly to CA just to drive on it.


Ugh Texas is I-2. Wrong state.
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« Reply #62 on: August 15, 2021, 11:10:27 AM »

Nope, never been to California, but I mean they have an interstate 2 but not a 1!!! If they had an I-1, I would fly to CA just to drive on it.


Ugh Texas is I-2. Wrong state.

I know it's in Texas, by they I just meant it exists in the US. They should also build an I-995 and I-999 somewhere on the east coast.
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Re: Weird Routes
« Reply #63 on: August 15, 2021, 11:15:23 AM »

The approximately 0.09 miles of CA 225 that still exists as a rail underpass.

In that vein..the portion of Route 275 that still exists (just the Tower Bridge and nothing else of the route)!

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Since Route 18 was already mentioned, another set of California examples:

- the north-south part of Route 84, which navigationally doesn't really jive with the more well known east-west portion (even if Vasco Road corridor someday was actually signed as 84 to  connect the two segments)

- Route 238 even if the I-238 segment was still state route only - the "bump" with 580 means that those two segments really do not operate as one cohesive route at all.  If anything, the state route portion of 238 really should be tied together with 185 instead.

- Route 14U

- Route 121 (which pre-1964 was the original Route 37 past Sears Point) - essentially, direct north then direct east with a concurrency, then direct north with another concurrency, then direct east, before heading north/northeast.  A zig-zag of a route from 37 all the way to the end at Route 128.

- L-shaped corridors like Route 193 and 175, and to a degree Route 70, where it is extremely unlikely one would realistically try to follow the designation end-to-end.


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Re: Weird Routes
« Reply #64 on: August 15, 2021, 11:25:04 AM »

Nope, never been to California, but I mean they have an interstate 2 but not a 1!!! If they had an I-1, I would fly to CA just to drive on it.
There’s a CA 1 that people fly to CA from other countries just to drive on. Why is an I-1 needed in the state and when it’s going to duplicate or replace the numbering of the internationally known PCH?

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« Reply #65 on: August 15, 2021, 12:17:37 PM »

Nope, never been to California, but I mean they have an interstate 2 but not a 1!!! If they had an I-1, I would fly to CA just to drive on it.
There’s a CA 1 that people fly to CA from other countries just to drive on. Why is an I-1 needed in the state and when it’s going to duplicate or replace the numbering of the internationally known PCH?

Do you know how many drivers are losing their minds trying to sleep at night knowing there's an I-2 but not an I-1? It's psychological torture. I live near a route 1 in NJ, big deal, but that beautiful blue red interstate sign...
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« Reply #66 on: August 15, 2021, 12:27:34 PM »

Nope, never been to California, but I mean they have an interstate 2 but not a 1!!! If they had an I-1, I would fly to CA just to drive on it.
There’s a CA 1 that people fly to CA from other countries just to drive on. Why is an I-1 needed in the state and when it’s going to duplicate or replace the numbering of the internationally known PCH?

Do you know how many drivers are losing their minds trying to sleep at night knowing there's an I-2 but not an I-1?
One… Just you.

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« Reply #67 on: August 15, 2021, 12:41:49 PM »

I just realized there are two I-695s in NY, and they are both almost as tiny!
I know of I-695 in The Bronx. Where is the other one?
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« Reply #68 on: August 15, 2021, 12:44:13 PM »

I just realized there are two I-695s in NY, and they are both almost as tiny!
Where’s the other I-695? Normally, 3di numbers can’t be duplicated within a state, and I-95 in NY isn’t that long.

The Throgsneck expressway, and the one near the great NYS fairgrounds. I swear though the Throgsneck expressway should just be part of I-295 and the current I-295 stretch between the Bruckner interchange and the Throgsneck Bridge should be part of I-278.
There isn't an I-695 near the NYS Fairgrounds and I-95 doesn't go anywhere near there to even have a child in that area. That is NY-695 not I-695.
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« Reply #69 on: August 15, 2021, 12:45:56 PM »

WI-47 has almost as much mileage concurrent with another route (notably WI-29, WI-55, US-45, and US-8) as it does by itself.

WI-23, which is 211 miles long, makes a pretty much 90 degree turn roughly halfway through at Reedsburg.

I read there is a triple interstate concurrency in Wisconsin involving 41, 43, and 894, as well as multiple local routes following along them.


US-41 follows I-41 for its entire length, but its not signed regularly.  There are no other routes along that multiplex.

Along this tripleplex, I-41 north runs with I-43 south and vice versa.
More like I-41 follows US-41 for it's entire length.
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« Reply #70 on: August 15, 2021, 12:47:22 PM »

US-62 has to be on the list. What does that route do? It's several distinct useful state highways plus a variety of segments that only need to be county roads, all branded with one number.
Connects Mexico and Canada going east and west.
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« Reply #71 on: August 15, 2021, 12:48:09 PM »

US 101 should be upgraded toan expressway it's entire length and be designated I-1.
Are you related to Fritzowl?
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« Reply #72 on: August 15, 2021, 01:13:35 PM »

US 101 should be upgraded toan expressway it's entire length and be designated I-1.
Are you related to Fritzowl?
It’s FritzOwl’s burner.
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« Reply #73 on: August 15, 2021, 01:50:40 PM »

I hated giving directions on the interstate when I lived in Portsmouth, VA. EB I-64 comes into Norfolk with traffic going SE, then due south, then SW, then due west across the High Rise Bridge, and finally EB I-64 travelers are driving NW into Bowers Hill where it ends at the junction of I-64, I-264, and I-664 (plus US 13, US 58, US 460, and VA 191). Telling out-of-area drivers to drive west on EB I-64 to I-664 to WB I-64 (avoiding the HRBT) to head back to Richmond or DC was always interesting to explain.
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Re: Weird Routes
« Reply #74 on: August 15, 2021, 02:29:17 PM »

I just realized there are two I-695s in NY, and they are both almost as tiny!
I know of I-695 in The Bronx. Where is the other one?

NVM, the other one is just a state route that my glitch maps designated Interstate. I don't think any state has multiple of the same interstate within the same state.
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