Walking on Active Interstates

[Darkchylde]

I walked about a quarter mile from the exit ramp back onto I-12 along the shoulder to get a close-up pic of the new mile markers they've been putting in place here.

Did I mention it was in driving rain?

[1995hoo]

Hahaha, the interstates are my playground.

About a year or so ago, I was at a friend-of-a-now-ex-bf's apartment near the I-495/I-66 interchange in northern VA. I noticed that the door in the soundwall was cracked open, and needless to say convinced the ex to follow me onto 495. We played on the guardrails and steel, took pictures of the construction, and made out to the applause of car horns.

Also, on another day in broad daylight, I "preserved" a shield from I-95 that was in a gigantic pile of construction debris.

It wasn't on an Interstate, but I recall a similar experience of lots of beeping horns acknowledging an activity on the shoulder on a Boy Scout trip to Prince Edward Island for the 1989 Canadian Jamboree. We were on our way across Route 9 in eastern Maine, which is in the middle of nowhere, and we all had to take a leak, so we stopped on the shoulder. Picture a line of six Boy Scouts and two adult leaders, all in full uniform, lined up pissing on the side of the road (backs to the road, of course). The truck drivers in particular seemed to take great amusement from this and were beeping their horns like mad as they sped by.

[yakra]

In 2005, a fatal accident stopped all traffic at the Presumpscot River. I wasn't very far back, right about here. People shut off their cars, milled about and chatted, speculated on what was going on up ahead. I may have scampered up the hillock to the right...
Eventually, troopers directed us back south to the median crossover, to return to Portland.

[kendancy66]

Does Hitchhiking count?

[rmsandw]

I-35 at the OK/KS Line...walked from median to side to get a few pics for about 10 minutes before seeing another car.

[golden eagle]

January 2000: my car stopped on me in the middle of the night of I-55 south of Winona, MS.  I waited until sunrise to walk back to the previous exit (about a mile) to call someone to come and get me. I didn't have a cell phone at the time.

[kkt]

Approx. 1996, I-95 in Philadelphia was at a complete stop due to an accident for an hour.  We got out to stretch our legs and in vain hope that we'd be able to see what was the cause of the blockage.

Stopped on shoulders a few times for photos -- trains alongside I-80 in Nebraska, the views in Wyoming.  To switch drivers in rural areas where there are wide shoulders, too many times to count.