Opposite Terminus Mileage

[theroadwayone]

Here's a month-old AA Roads FB post showing some signs that include the distance to the road's opposite end, even if said distance is four figures, from across the country.
https://www.facebook.com/aaroads/posts/10155735981087948

What do you think?

[kkt]

That would be cool. 

[JasonOfORoads]

US-30 needs them for sure.

[theroadwayone]

US-30 needs them for sure.

Good idea: Put up a sign in Atlantic City saying "Astoria, OR 3,073 Miles." Then put another sign in Astoria showing the same distance back the other way.

[ilpt4u]

Chicago and New Orleans on I-55, and for good measure, via the St Louis Bypass route of I-57 listed too

Heading South, right between the Merging Ramps from Lake Shore Drive before reaching the Dan Ryan, and down in NOLA heading North

I-80 having New York and San Francisco mileage listed would be cool

I-10, Jacksonville to Los Angeles or even Santa Monica

And if/when I-69 is ever complete...McAllen, TX to Port Huron, MI

[TheHighwayMan3561]

I've wanted to see signs on I-35 indicating Duluth-Laredo at those termini.

[ET21]

US-30 needs them for sure.

US-20 too!

[Rothman]

US 20 has them.

[ET21]

I-90 then 

[Rover_0]

Extend US-64 to Cambria CA and put opposite mileage between there and Nags Head NC. 

[sparker]

I-90 then 

Got a fun idea/sociological experiment:  Put mileage signs to, respectively, Boston and Seattle at each end of I-90.  Then affix the symbol of that city/region's NFL team (Patriots, Seahawks) next to the city name -- and see just how long it takes local fans to come out with their cans of spray paint! (My money would be on the Bostonians!).   

[kkt]

I-90 then 

Got a fun idea/sociological experiment:  Put mileage signs to, respectively, Boston and Seattle at each end of I-90.  Then affix the symbol of that city/region's NFL team (Patriots, Seahawks) next to the city name -- and see just how long it takes local fans to come out with their cans of spray paint! (My money would be on the Bostonians!).   

You wouldn't find anyone to get against the Bostonians

- from the western end of I-90

[SectorZ]

I-90 then 

Got a fun idea/sociological experiment:  Put mileage signs to, respectively, Boston and Seattle at each end of I-90.  Then affix the symbol of that city/region's NFL team (Patriots, Seahawks) next to the city name -- and see just how long it takes local fans to come out with their cans of spray paint! (My money would be on the Bostonians!).   

We would just have the Seahawks logo with the distance next to it, and the distance would be '2nd & Goal'.

You wouldn't find anyone to get against the Bostonians

- from the western end of I-90

Seahawks logo, with the distance '2nd & goal'...

[ilpt4u]

Lets keep the NFL theme going...

I-41, with distances between Green Bay and the IL/WI Border, complete with Packer and Bear logos

Bonus points to go into Fictional Land, and extend I-41 to end up on Lake Shore Drive and terminate at Soldier Field on the Chicago Lakefront.

Over existing Interstates, that would involve continuing the Multiplex with I-94 to I-55, then an I-55/I-41 Wrong Way Duplex between Dan Ryan Expressway and Lake Shore Drive, and continue I-41 as far north along LSD as you can in the Freeway Section approaching Soldier Field (really not far from the I-55/LSD interchange)

Otherwise, this takes some creativity, and needs a Freeway connector to North Lake Shore Drive and the Edens or Kennedy somewhere. Extending the Ohio Feeder off the Kennedy all the way to Lake Shore would be ugly, or to tunnel it would be really, really, really expensive. But then again, Chicago does have Lower Wacker Drive...

[nexus73]

I-97 anyone?  I-238?  j/k!

Rick

[sparker]

I-97 anyone?  I-238?  j/k!

Rick

As long as we're segueing into sarcasm:  either of the I-375's, I-175 in FL, I-587 (the original NY version), I-381.......yada,yada.................

[vdeane]

I-878 is so short exit guide signs can count:

[Henry]

How about I-95 from Houlton to Miami, or I-5 from Blaine to San Diego?

[Roadgeekteen]

US 20 has them.

And I think a US highway in atlantic city has them, I don't know which one.

[hotdogPi]

US 20 has them.

And I think a US highway in atlantic city has them, I don't know which one.

30, 40, and 322 end in Atlantic City, and the first two of those reach the western United States.

[Henry]

US 20 has them.

And I think a US highway in atlantic city has them, I don't know which one.

30, 40, and 322 end in Atlantic City, and the first two of those reach the western United States.

Only US 30 stretches all the way to the Pacific Coast, and I think US 40 did too, until it was truncated all the way back to Park City, UT.

[sparker]

US 20 has them.

And I think a US highway in atlantic city has them, I don't know which one.

30, 40, and 322 end in Atlantic City, and the first two of those reach the western United States.

Only US 30 stretches all the way to the Pacific Coast, and I think US 40 did too, until it was truncated all the way back to Park City, UT.

Your are indeed correct; from about 1930 to 1936 both US 40 and 50 ended in downtown Oakland, CA, with a ferry connection to San Francisco; in 1936 they were extended directly into S.F. via the new Bay Bridge; that arrangement lasted until the 1964 California route renumbering, which also truncated several U.S. highways, including both 40 & 50.

[kkt]

US 20 has them.

And I think a US highway in atlantic city has them, I don't know which one.

30, 40, and 322 end in Atlantic City, and the first two of those reach the western United States.

Only US 30 stretches all the way to the Pacific Coast, and I think US 40 did too, until it was truncated all the way back to Park City, UT.

Your are indeed correct; from about 1930 to 1936 both US 40 and 50 ended in downtown Oakland, CA, with a ferry connection to San Francisco; in 1936 they were extended directly into S.F. via the new Bay Bridge; that arrangement lasted until the 1964 California route renumbering, which also truncated several U.S. highways, including both 40 & 50.

I thought prior to the Bay Bridge U.S. 40 was routed onto the Berkeley Pier, over the ferry, and onto the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco, where it terminated at U.S. 101?
http://webbie1.sfpl.org/multimedia/sfphotos/AAC-2256.jpg

[sparker]

US 20 has them.

And I think a US highway in atlantic city has them, I don't know which one.

30, 40, and 322 end in Atlantic City, and the first two of those reach the western United States.

Only US 30 stretches all the way to the Pacific Coast, and I think US 40 did too, until it was truncated all the way back to Park City, UT.

Your are indeed correct; from about 1930 to 1936 both US 40 and 50 ended in downtown Oakland, CA, with a ferry connection to San Francisco; in 1936 they were extended directly into S.F. via the new Bay Bridge; that arrangement lasted until the 1964 California route renumbering, which also truncated several U.S. highways, including both 40 & 50.

I thought prior to the Bay Bridge U.S. 40 was routed onto the Berkeley Pier, over the ferry, and onto the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco, where it terminated at U.S. 101?
http://webbie1.sfpl.org/multimedia/sfphotos/AAC-2256.jpg

Actually, the Berkeley ferry was a private operation; US 40 continued down San Pablo Avenue into downtown Oakland, where it joined US 50 on Broadway down to what is now Jack London Square, where the regional public ferry conveyed traffic from both routes to the Market Street pier in S.F.  I haven't seen records or historical photos that would indicate that traffic along US 101 (which would have intersected Market at 10th Street during that time frame) encountered any "trailblazers" for 40 and/or 50 at that intersection -- although there apparently were a multitude of signs directing traffic to the Ferry Building and its terminal complex.  As far as continuous U.S. routes were concerned, the Hyde ferry terminal was utilized not only for the independent Berkeley ferry but also for the US 101 continuation across the Golden Gate strait to Sausalito in Marin County.  Curiously, in the late '20's and early '30's, when US 101 featured a "split" route starting in downtown San Jose, with 101W located where CA 82 is today and 101E going through Milpitas, Warm Springs, the Niles district of Fremont (along today's CA 238) before utilizing MacArthur Blvd., Grand Avenue, and Broadway into central Oakland (as US 50 did for many subsequent years) to access the same ferry terminal along the Alameda Estuary as did US 40; a direct ferry from there to Sausalito provided the continuous US 101E with a connection to northward US 101 toward San Rafael and Santa Rosa and on up to Eureka and beyond.  If you can locate old CH&PW archives from that time, it'll clearly lay out that route complex -- which only lasted 10-12 years until the bridges were constructed.