Number of in-state control cities on major interstates

[Flint1979]

Then further into my last post, once your on I-96 and coming up to the end at I-75 it just says Toledo and nothing about the Bridge To Canada which at this point is right in front of you. Then once your on the ramp for southbound I-75 it's mentioned as the very last exit on I-96.

This is the actual exit for the Ambassador Bridge:

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3251357,-83.084499,3a,75y,144.21h,87.27t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swH6pyCASZ_x_4EJr5bB1zA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

[djlynch]

I love dramatic, far-flung control cities: Like San Antonio on I-10 in El Paso, Tampa on I-75 in Atlanta and Los Angeles on I-40 in Arizona.

Cheers to that. I'm a big proponent of "real cites"  as control cities. Local traffic know the roads anyway, and rinky dink control cities that nobody has ever heard of are useless for through traffic. Totally in favor of concepts like 5 North - Portland in Sacramento or 80 East - Omaha in Cheyenne.

I'd like to see a change to allow one local or regional control city and one long-distance control city or more than one long-distance city, then get rid of the ones that are basically just standing in for interstate junctions like Barstow and Lake City from the approved long-distance list.

[The Nature Boy]

NH with "All Maine Points" is stranger that West Suburbs.  Maine can do if Indiana is good for Illinois.

Also Milwaukee is used leaving O' Hare for I-294 NB.  That may be cause I-90 also goes to WI.  So using it there for I-294 might be considered controlling all interests of Wisconsin to exclusively use I-294.

"All Maine Points" is even more nonsensical when you consider that Maine and Massachusetts are both control points on I-95 at one of the Seacoast entrances (the exact one escapes me right now).

I don't know why NHDOT resists using Portland as a control city.

[michravera]

NH with "All Maine Points" is stranger that West Suburbs.  Maine can do if Indiana is good for Illinois.

Also Milwaukee is used leaving O' Hare for I-294 NB.  That may be cause I-90 also goes to WI.  So using it there for I-294 might be considered controlling all interests of Wisconsin to exclusively use I-294.

"All Maine Points" is even more nonsensical when you consider that Maine and Massachusetts are both control points on I-95 at one of the Seacoast entrances (the exact one escapes me right now).

I don't know why NHDOT resists using Portland as a control city.

From what I have seen on this on this board, in Europe, they seem to post DISTANCE signs only to the frontier with the next country. In the US we could do it to the border with the next state. California is pretty good about posting DISTANCES to cities in other states (at least to Portland, Reno, and Las Vegas. It seemed that we are a little squeamish about Phoenix.)

But CONTROL Cities are another matter. What additional value is provided by "All Maine Points" over simply "Maine".

Last week I took a trip to Arizona and that "Indio / Other Desert Cities" sign showed up again on I-10. I could see that they are trying to avoid picking one of the Palm/Desert/Hot/Springs or La Quinta or Cathedral City over each other, but why not just pick the most distant and have done with it or simply say "Desert" or just post "Blythe"?

[hotdogPi]

What additional value is provided by "All Maine Points" over simply "Maine".

To make sure it's ALL of Maine, not just Maine in general.

However, at the I-95/NH 16 split, it's used incorrectly; parts of Maine would be better using NH 16 than I-95.

[PHLBOS]

"All Maine Points" is even more nonsensical when you consider that Maine and Massachusetts are both control points on I-95 at one of the Seacoast entrances (the exact one escapes me right now).

It's this location.

What additional value is provided by "All Maine Points" over simply "Maine".

To make sure it's ALL of Maine, not just Maine in general.

However, at the I-95/NH 16 split, it's used incorrectly; parts of Maine would be better using NH 16 than I-95.

All the more reason to use Portland, ME for the I-95 northbound signage.

[kphoger]

From what I have seen on this on this board, in Europe, they seem to post DISTANCE signs only to the frontier with the next country. In the US we could do it to the border with the next state.

I wonder if that is because posting mileage to a point in a foreign country would require access to route logs from that foreign country.  I suppose that would be easier to do between states than between countries.

(I do note that there cases of the US posting distances to foreign cities.)