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What Interstates Form Your "Home Block"???

Started by thenetwork, January 30, 2018, 11:39:59 PM

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thenetwork

Most of us live in a residence on a block surrounded by at least 2 streets.  If actual Interstate numbers comprised your block's boundaries, or in other words you had to use actual Interstates to circle around your block, what would those interstates (not US- or SR- only routes) be?

** If you live somewhere like the Carolina coast, for example, and only had I-95 as one side of your block, what would be the cross-interstates on either side of you if they were routed right to the beach?

For me, living in Grand Junction, CO literally just south of I-70, my "interstate block" would be I-70/I-25/I-40/I-15, which, BTW is one hell of a big ass block! 

Had I lived north of I-70, my "block" would then be I-70/I-76/I-25/I-80/I-215/I-15. 

My former residence in Parma, OH would have had a much smaller "block" comprised of I-480/I-77/I-80 (Turnpike)/I-71, which I could drive in under an hour.

Get it?  Good.  Now your turn!


TheHighwayMan3561

#1
my block is I-94/I-35/I-29.
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Max Rockatansky

I-5/I-210/I-15/I-80 

Which encompasses most of the Great Basin Desert, Mojave Desert, and Sierra Nevada Range.

Big John


pdx-wanderer


jp the roadgeek

#6
Mine is I-84, I-691, and I-91, which is a manageable 50-mile block: 18 mi on I-84, 22 mi on I-91, and 9 mi on I-691, plus about a mile of ramps.  If I lived 2 miles west of where I do, it would be a 3-state, 300 mile block of I-84, I-87, I-787, I-90, and I-91. If I lived about 4 miles south, it would be a 155 mile block of I-691, I-91, I-95, I-287, I-684, and I-84.  If I lived 10 miles east, it would be a 185 mile block of I-91, I-95, I-395, I-90, and I-84.

I'm going to guess Kevin_224 lives on my block.
Interstates I've clinched: 97, 290 (MA), 291 (CT), 291 (MA), 293, 295 (DE-NJ-PA), 295 (RI-MA), 384, 391, 395 (CT-MA), 395 (MD), 495 (DE), 610 (LA), 684, 691, 695 (MD), 695 (NY), 795 (MD)

Mark68

#7
Parker, CO

I-25/I-225/I-70/I-135/I-235/I-135 again/I-35/I-44/1-40

Covers CO/KS/OK/TX/NM

Denver, Aurora, Topeka, Wichita, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Pueblo, Colorado Springs

Grew up in Anaheim, CA, so my "neighborhood" was surrounded by I-5/I-605/I-10/I-15/I-8/I-805
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."~Yogi Berra

gonealookin

Quote from: pdx-wanderer on January 31, 2018, 12:02:25 AM
I-405 (OR) and I-5.

Enjoy that while you can because it will be a long time after you graduate until you can afford that.

(I'm in the same block as Max Rockatansky.)

kj3400

I-95 and I-695. I-895 has no east facing ramps to I-695 which would have made it even smaller.
Call me Kenny/Kenneth. No, seriously.

corco


kkt


US 89


MarkF

I-5 / I-605 / I-10 / I-15 / I-8 / I-805

Otto Yamamoto

Interstate 87 to the west and south, Interstate 95 to the north, Interstate 278 to the east: the junction of Interstates 87 and 278 form the southeast corner of the 'block'.

P00I


GenExpwy

#15
Since I-86 does not yet reach Binghamton...

I-390 / I-86 / I-90 / I-79 / I-80 / I-81 / I-476* / I-81 again / I-690 / I-90 again
*no direct connection

(How are spurs and stubs counted? If you include going to the ends of stubs, making a U-turn, and returning, then include I-99 and I-180)

Hurricane Rex

I-5 to the east and that is it in Sherwood. The only other possible argument is I 80 600 miles south but that is really far away.
ODOT, raise the speed limit and fix our traffic problems.

Road and weather geek for life.

Running till I die.

CtrlAltDel

I-26 / I-40 / I-81. It's about 216 miles round trip.
Interstates clinched: 4, 57, 275 (IN-KY-OH), 465 (IN), 640 (TN), 985
State Interstates clinched: I-26 (TN), I-75 (GA), I-75 (KY), I-75 (TN), I-81 (WV), I-95 (NH)

hotdogPi

Clinched

Traveled, plus
US 13,44,50
MA 22,40,107,109,117,119,126,141,159
NH 27, 111A(E); CA 133; NY 366; GA 42, 140; FL A1A, 7; CT 32; VT 2A, 5A; PA 3, 51, 60, QC 162, 165, 263; UK A100, A3211, A3213, A3215, A4222; FR95 D316

Lowest untraveled: 25 (updated from 14)

New: MA 14, 123

jeffandnicole

#19
Using what I can: I-195 (NJ), I-295 (NJ, DE), I-95 (DE, MD, DE, VA), I-295 (VA), I-64 (VA)

I don't have a block since there's no N/S interstate to the east of me.  Which means I must have ocean front property!  :-D

SectorZ

I-93, I-95, and I-495.

And if our pipe dreams come true and US 3 becomes something (I-89?), I'd literally live within a true block.

02 Park Ave

C-o-H

webny99

I have no E/W interstate to my north  :-P

So, it'll have to be I-190, I-290, I-90, I-490, I-81. That pretty well boxes in the Lake Ontario shoreline.

jemacedo9

If I ignore the fact that I-78 & I-476 do not have a direct connection, then:
I-76 / I-276 / I-476 / I-78 / I-81 / I-83 / I-283 / I-76

If it has to be a direct connection...then what do I do with the I-81 & I-476 junction?

ilpt4u

I-57, I-64, a little of I-255, and I-55



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