Take-It-Yourself Route Number Challenge

[Jim]

For I-96, I'll do this one with a big 96 and little 69 in Lansing, Michigan.  June 27, 2012.



I have exactly one US 96 in my collection, this from I-10 in east Texas.  August 28, 2003.



I have 7 or 8 other 96 options, but I'll stick closer to home with New York 96 in Waterloo.  June 29, 2016.

[jbnv]

LA 182-96 Exit Sign with Closure Banner by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

Any reason why the 'EAST' is underlined? Was that an old standard?

It's a Michigan thing.

[paulthemapguy]

Massachusetts 97


IMG_2312 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

A faulty Florida 97 shield that I found going southbound on US29 approaching Pensacola.


IMG_7083 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

An old IL-97 from 2005.


IL-097-123ss by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[formulanone]

NH 97 found on Northbound on I-93:


GA 97 on US 27 in Bainbridge (take the merger of Facebook and Farmville Highway):


OH 97 near US 30:

[okroads]

MO 97, taken 5/15/11:
DSC09443 by Eric Stuve, on Flickr

OH 97, taken 2/6/16:
DSC00742 by Eric Stuve, on Flickr

OK 97, taken 6/25/11:
DSC09994 by Eric Stuve, on Flickr

[Max Rockatansky]

US 97 with a bonus WA 20, weird how Omak and the valleys east of the Cascades are about as close to a desert as you can get without technically being one:



BTW, I noticed the numbers are jumping a lot faster and I obviously missed something awhile back.  Are we doing a 12 hour interval now?

[Jim]

BTW, I noticed the numbers are jumping a lot faster and I obviously missed something awhile back.  Are we doing a 12 hour interval now?

I see no reason to rush things until we get way up into the 300s or 400s where it will be likely harder for people to find examples.

[jbnv]

BTW, I noticed the numbers are jumping a lot faster and I obviously missed something awhile back.  Are we doing a 12 hour interval now?

20 hours. I changed it several numbers ago. You're noticing it now because for a while we were starting new numbers in the mornings consistently. Somehow the window moved into the evening and started moving up.

I see no reason to rush things until we get way up into the 300s or 400s where it will be likely harder for people to find examples.

It's not about accelerating the game. People were jumping the gun on the 24-hour window, so I shortened it to be less anal about that. And it has worked pretty well. Again, it happened that we didn't advance the numbers as quickly for a while, but now we are. (If anybody feels that we are going to fast now, we can discuss that.)

After 200, we will do five numbers at a time. After 1000, we will do 20 numbers at a time.

[Truvelo]

BC97 in the days when the Coq was still tolled.

[AsphaltPlanet]

Local to me, near Cambridge, ON.

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/401_dv_267-5_east_Jul14_24x16.jpg

[formulanone]

I'm backtracking because this thread was missing a NY State Route 9R, back when we tried to get all the suffixed 9 routes:

[Rothman]

I'm backtracking because this thread was missing a NY State Route 9R, back when we tried to get all the suffixed 9 routes:

Heh.  Just ate at Karavalli's up 9R from this intersection today.

[Jim]

For I-97, I'll go with this unusual overhead distance sign.  December 26, 2014.



For US 97, there's no question which I need to use.  This Alaska US 97 is (or at least was, 15 years ago) in the University of Alaska-Fairbanks museum.  June 17, 2001.



And for the third 97, I have to offer BC 97 near Summit Lake on the Alaska Highway.  June 12, 2001.

[jbnv]

A catchup photo: Florida 24.


Florida 24 Exit by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[dgolub]

NY 97 northbound in Port Jervis:


Sunrise Highway (NY 27) westbound at Nicolls Road (Suffolk CR 97):

[jmd41280]

PA 97 trailblazer in Gettysburg, PA

Pa Route 97 Sign by Jon Dawson, on Flickr

I-77 approaching Exit 55 (SC 97) near Great Falls, SC

I-77 near SC Route 97 by Jon Dawson, on Flickr

I-77/64 Exit 42 (WV 16/97) near Crab Orchard, WV

I-64 / I-77 @ WV Routes 16 & 97 by Jon Dawson, on Flickr

[Dougtone]

I'm backtracking because this thread was missing a NY State Route 9R, back when we tried to get all the suffixed 9 routes:

NY 9R, the German Pirate's Highway. I cannot take credit for coming up with that.

[Dougtone]

MA 97, Haverhill, MA.


US 97, Redmond, OR.


Saratoga CR 97, Waterford, NY.

[Truvelo]

Going back a few numbers, and a few years before the loop was replaced with a direct connector. These signs are adorned with button copy. So sad to see them go

[oscar]

Not too soon to start on 98s.

AK 98 in downtown Skagway:



I'll also throw in a backtrack, for a VA 18 cutout I found in 2012 in Covington VA:

[MNHighwayMan]

MN-98 marker from my collection. The route ran from US-61 in Wyoming to US-8 in Chisago City - nowadays it is Chisago CR-22, having been turned back in ~1996. It was the original alignment of US-8 until the mid to late 50s, when US-8 assumed its current alignment.

[Jim]

For US 98, I'll go to I-10 in Mobile, Alabama.  August 27, 2003.



Here's another Alaska 98 in Skagway. Either a different location or an older version of what Oscar just posted.  Mine's from June 23, 2001.



New York 98 and many friends meet in Batavia.  June 1, 2009.

[Truvelo]

Ohio 98 with plenty of button copy below.

[dgolub]

Frowein Road (Suffolk CR 98) at its eastern terminus at Montauk Highway (Suffolk CR 80):


Palisades Parkway northbound at Willow Grove Road (Rockland CR 98):

[AsphaltPlanet]

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/CA/CA/98/CA98_dv_0_west_Apr16_24x16.jpg