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Who lives the closest to a numbered highway?

Started by bugo, August 12, 2014, 03:45:53 PM

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bugo

My front door is about 250 feet from the median of I-44/OK 66.  Does anybody live closer to a highway?  Does anybody live closer to a *major* highway?


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384 feet from MA 110 (not closer, but still very close)
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hbelkins

Quote from: bugo on August 12, 2014, 03:45:53 PM
My front door is about 250 feet from the median of I-44/OK 66.  Does anybody live closer to a highway?  Does anybody live closer to a *major* highway?

Is road noise a problem?


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Brandon

That beats me.  I'm over a mile in any one direction (closest is about 1.1 miles).  However, none of them (IL-7, US-30, US-52, I-55) are over 2 miles from me.
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Roadgeek Adam

#4
Define numbered highway. I live on partially-signed Middlesex County Route 676 and the center line is <10ft from my front lawn. I live 0.19 miles from NJ 27 and .31 miles from CR 514.
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Zeffy

#5
Does US 206 count as a "major" highway? If so, I live less than a 1/4 of a mile away from 206. But looking at what you live by, I'm guessing you want highways with high traffic counts at any time of the day.

EDIT: Misread title, but I still live very close to a numbered highway.
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roadman

Growing up in Lynn (MA), from the front door of my parent's house, it was about a 560 foot walk to MA Route 107/Western Avenue.
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agentsteel53

I once lived 4 blocks from US 64/87 in northeast NM. 

also, less than one block from what may have been US-101W (Ingraham Street in San Diego) but I cannot verify this.
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spooky

I live about a half mile from MA 3, but grew up about 250 feet from RI 4.

pianocello

My dorm this next year is about 400 feet from SR 130, and my house is almost exactly a mile away from I-80.
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US71

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Currently half a mile to US 271

In college, I lived for 3 years on US 71B

One year, I lived on Spur 112, a third of a mile from US 71 (before it was 540 or 49).

Another time, I was 1/4 mile from AR 16 :)

Growing up, we lived for 5 years on AR 45
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The Nature Boy

I-95 practically ran through my backyard as a kid. We didn't get a soundwall for my neighborhood so it was always a constant noise.

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Jardine

The closest point of my house (the SW corner) is 68 feet from the center line of a 2 lane state highway.  When the house was built it was a dirt road, so if it is violating a standard of some kind, it was grandfathered.

We get some road noise and vibration from trucks.

maplestar

About 425 feet to the median of I-264 with some three-story buildings shielding us from any road noise

bugo

Quote from: hbelkins on August 12, 2014, 03:54:27 PM
Quote from: bugo on August 12, 2014, 03:45:53 PM
My front door is about 250 feet from the median of I-44/OK 66.  Does anybody live closer to a highway?  Does anybody live closer to a *major* highway?

Is road noise a problem?

I am used to it.  I listen to music a lot, and at night I turn both my bedside fan and the air conditioner fan on so it's not too bad.

freebrickproductions

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I also collect traffic lights, road signs, fans, and railroad crossing equipment.

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andrewkbrown

I'm about 300-400 feet laterally and 120 feet vertically from US 1 south of Alexandria.
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sammi

I live about 100 m from Yonge St / York RR 1 / Old ON-11. If that doesn't count (because old alignments don't count sometimes), the 407 is about 3 km away.

vdeane

I was just 215 feet away from US 11 my freshmen year in college.  A couple people I knew had an apartment 150 feet off US 11.
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briantroutman

Quote from: bugo on August 12, 2014, 03:45:53 PM
My front door is about 250 feet from the median of I-44/OK 66.  Does anybody live closer to a highway?  Does anybody live closer to a *major* highway?

My front door is almost exactly the same distance from the outside lane of a 10-lane freeway section of US 101–AADT is about 170,000.

Pete from Boston

I'm a block and a half from one state highway, half a block from another.  Neither is as interesting as when I lived a few dozen yards from the Mass Pike. 

TheStranger

When I was in college, I lived on old US 40/99W in Davis so that placed me approximately 200-300 feet from I-80's westbound lanes.
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oscar

I live about 800 feet north of US 50, a little more west from VA 120, and about 1.1 mile south of I-66.
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vtk

My house is adjacent to a township highway that has a number on the street blade where it intersects the county road, about 1/6 mile away. It's about 3/4 mile away from a state route, a US route, and an Interstate.

At The Ohio State University, I lived about 1/2 mile from OH 315, a freeway. I walked to construction projects along it and I-670.
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