Interstate 87 (NC-VA)

[TimQuiQui]

87 continues its westward creep on Google Maps. Now it's all the way to the 440 split!!!

[Strider]

LOL! Wow. somebody had too much time smoking something....

[sparker]

Maybe they're just NY transplants and they're feeling homesick! 

[LM117]

87 continues its westward creep on Google Maps. Now it's all the way to the 440 split!!!

Pffft. I'm won't be inpressed until it takes over US-1 and goes to I-20 in SC. Go big or go home.

[The Ghostbuster]

Isn't there a thread called "Google Maps Sucks"? Apparently this symbolizes why that thread exists to the T!

[Finrod]

Pffft. I'm won't be inpressed until it takes over US-1 and goes to I-20 in SC. Go big or go home.

Well, if you really want to go big: take I-87 to I-20, multiplex it to Augusta, then take over the proposed I-14 route.  After all, I-85 in Alabama goes practically east-west, why not I-87?

(No, I'm not in the least bit serious here.)

[roadman65]

Well, if you really want to go big: take I-87 to I-20, multiplex it to Augusta, then take over the proposed I-14 route.  After all, I-85 in Alabama goes practically east-west, why not I-87?

(No, I'm not in the least bit serious here.)

It would fit the grid being east of I-85 .

[The Nature Boy]

Maybe they're just NY transplants and they're feeling homesick!

*waits for I-87 to also be labeled as the "North Carolina State Thruway" on Google Maps*

[bob7374]

Maybe they're just NY transplants and they're feeling homesick!

*waits for I-87 to also be labeled as the "North Carolina State Thruway" on Google Maps*

It's already got the informal nickname of 'The Southway'.

[sparker]

Maybe they're just NY transplants and they're feeling homesick!

*waits for I-87 to also be labeled as the "North Carolina State Thruway" on Google Maps*

It's already got the informal nickname of 'The Southway'.

I still think it should be called the "Jimmie Johnson/Rick Hendrick Championship Freeway" and the number changed to I-48 (for obvious reasons  - actually, more than one!).  Then get the Hendrick group to pony up some bucks for signage.  Win-win for all concerned!

[The Nature Boy]

Maybe they're just NY transplants and they're feeling homesick!

*waits for I-87 to also be labeled as the "North Carolina State Thruway" on Google Maps*

It's already got the informal nickname of 'The Southway'.

I still think it should be called the "Jimmie Johnson/Rick Hendrick Championship Freeway" and the number changed to I-48 (for obvious reasons  - actually, more than one!).  Then get the Hendrick group to pony up some bucks for signage.  Win-win for all concerned!

Jeff Gordon might feel slighted, he only has 1.6 miles of I-85 named after him.

And don't give NCDOT any ideas, they'll try to number it I-3 and call it the "Dale Earnhardt Memorial Freeway."

[sparker]

Maybe they're just NY transplants and they're feeling homesick!

*waits for I-87 to also be labeled as the "North Carolina State Thruway" on Google Maps*

It's already got the informal nickname of 'The Southway'.

I still think it should be called the "Jimmie Johnson/Rick Hendrick Championship Freeway" and the number changed to I-48 (for obvious reasons  - actually, more than one!).  Then get the Hendrick group to pony up some bucks for signage.  Win-win for all concerned!

Jeff Gordon might feel slighted, he only has 1.6 miles of I-85 named after him.

And don't give NCDOT any ideas, they'll try to number it I-3 and call it the "Dale Earnhardt Memorial Freeway."

NCDOT already moved NC 3 to the Concord area for just that reason; that might keep them satisfied for the time being!  At least my number fits the damn grid!  And since Gordon is a Vallejo native up here in Bay country, maybe we should slap his name on CA 24, since it's not too far from his hometown -- and he probably raced on dirt tracks in the area when he was a kid in any case! 

[Sam]

87 continues its westward creep on Google Maps. Now it's all the way to the 440 split!!!

I think the real problem with Google Maps jumping the gun is that it misleads drivers. If I'm southbound on I-95 headed for Raleigh, and Google Maps tells me to take I-87, I'm looking for signs that say I-87. I wouldn't think to exit on US 64. I'm sure plenty of drivers will just "in one half mile take the exit right", but, still, any mapmaker should try to be accurate.

[WashuOtaku]

I think the real problem with Google Maps jumping the gun is that it misleads drivers. If I'm southbound on I-95 headed for Raleigh, and Google Maps tells me to take I-87, I'm looking for signs that say I-87. I wouldn't think to exit on US 64. I'm sure plenty of drivers will just "in one half mile take the exit right", but, still, any mapmaker should try to be accurate.

It doesn't only mislead drivers, but wikipedia editors who do not use official sources.   

[roadman65]

Isn't our bipolar buddy on here one of the editors of Wiki? You know the big troll who has all the time in the world to be on line.

[WashuOtaku]

Isn't our bipolar buddy on here one of the editors of Wiki? You know the big troll who has all the time in the world to be on line.

Well, anyone can make edits on wikipedia, so the people I swat reverts on are usually anonymous.

[roadman65]

Yes I imagine so.  Heck the one in question could just do it just to be funny. That is why you cannot trust wiki one hundred percent.

[Finrod]

That is why you cannot trust wiki one hundred percent.

I think of wikipedia as expressing an Internet consensus rather than anything else.  A consensus can be and often is wrong.

[roadman65]

Well its whats in the field verses what is legislated rather than wiki verses the DOTs.

[CanesFan27]

NCDOT has begun the process of removing the Future I-495 signs - at least in Nash County.  I first caught on to thus after the NC 581 exit thus morning.  I will confirm how much further West on my way home from work this evening.

The standard I-495 signs in Wake County still remain and may take a little longer as overheads will need to be replaced or updated.

[CanesFan27]

Interstate 87 shields are in the process of being installed on the Knightdale Bypass.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/300176946738649?view=permalink&id=1487186911370974

[plain]

Well I guess now it's official. Though I still think the state should've held off with the postings until US 64 out to at least I-95 is improved.

[WashuOtaku]

Well I guess now it's official. Though I still think the state should've held off with the postings until US 64 out to at least I-95 is improved.

That wasn't going to happen, they are still years away from completing that stretch.  However, I am still awaiting word from NCDOT and the Local News Outlets about I-87 before I update Wikipedia.

[CanesFan27]

follow up with the blog entry with some of the new signing plans and changes to the exit numbers along the Knightdale Bypass for I-87.

http://surewhynotnow.blogspot.com/2017/09/goodbye-interstate-495-hello-interstate.html

[sparker]

Aaaaaaargh!  Looks like the misbegotten I-87 is now fact rather than mistake-to-be-corrected!  Well, this just nails it -- 2016 will go down in history as The Year Of Bad Decisions.  I'll leave it to the rest of you to ponder what the others were.

(Alternately: the year of deliberate stupidity!)