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Lowest-numbered route you haven't been on
1:
This question came up in the joke thread about even-numbered county routes, but this is a legitimate topic.
Positive integers, obviously.
The thread title is slightly misleading taken literally. Taken literally, it would be 1 for everyone except those that have been on every single Route 1, but that's not what I meant.
For me: 14.
US 1 (several states)
MA 2 and less than a mile of US 2 (VT)
US/MA 3 and a single block of PA 3
US 4 (NH) and MA 4
US 5 (and probably I-5, but I wasn't a roadgeek in 2011*)
US 6 via overlap with I-84 (CT)
NY 7 via overlap with I-88
GA 8 (US 29)
NH 9, MA 9, GA 9
NH 10 via overlap with I-89, also GA 10 (US 78)
NH 11 and US 11 (NY), both on overlaps
MA/NH 12
NY 13 and a short segment of US 13 (PA)
I've crossed CT 14 and VT 14 on freeways, but I haven't been on either. MA 14 is closer, though. The lowest number I haven't been on or crossed is 24, which is surprising since MA 24 is a freeway. (Update 3/14/19: I have now been on MA 24. The lowest I haven't been on or crossed now is 36.)
*I visited the San Diego Zoo on a trip that I arrived in Los Angeles by train, and my relative's house was in Irvine. I don't see how I could have gotten there any other reasonable way.
NWI_Irish96:
For me it's 48. I've been on IL 21 and US 34 in Illinois, and I've hit all the other numbers from 1 to 47 in Indiana.
48 and 97 are the only numbers < 100 that I'm missing.
CNGL-Leudimin:
For me is incredibily low: 5. Also the lowest I've never crossed. I've never been to a route numbered 3 in Spain, but have done so elsewhere (Portuguese A3, Italian RA 3).
Edit: Just remembered I went on TF-5 freeway in Tenerife, Canary Islands when I was only 5. I know I traveled on then-A-16 (now C-32) in Catalonia when I was 2. So the lowest numbered route I haven't been on is 18, and I don't know of any routes with that number near me. I have 17 thanks to that C-17/C-25 concurrency.
ipeters61:
28 for me. Can't think of any state whose Route 28 I've actually been on, though I did drive on ALT WV-28 briefly once, but I don't think that counts.
Roadgeekteen:
--- Quote from: 1 on January 23, 2019, 07:39:50 AM ---This question came up in the joke thread about even-numbered county routes, but this is a legitimate topic.
Positive integers, obviously.
The thread title is slightly misleading taken literally. Taken literally, it would be 1 for everyone except those that have been on every single Route 1, but that's not what I meant.
For me: 14.
US 1 (several states)
MA 2 and less than a mile of US 2 (VT)
US/MA 3 and a single block of PA 3
US 4 (NH) and MA 4
US 5 (and probably I-5, but I wasn't a roadgeek in 2011*)
US 6 via overlap with I-84 (CT)
NY 7 via overlap with I-88
GA 8 (US 29)
NH 9, MA 9, GA 9
NH 10 via overlap with I-89, also GA 10 (US 78)
NH 11 and US 11 (NY), both on overlaps
MA/NH 12
NY 13 and a short segment of US 13 (PA)
I've crossed CT 14 and VT 14 on freeways, but I haven't been on either. MA 14 is closer, though. The lowest number I haven't been on or crossed is 24, which is surprising since MA 24 is a freeway.
*I visited the San Diego Zoo on a trip that I arrived in Los Angeles by train, and my relative's house was in Irvine. I don't see how I could have gotten there any other reasonable way.
--- End quote ---
Amazingly, it might be 14, though I think I have been on one but I have no clear memories of it.
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