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?
384 feet from MA 110 (not closer, but still very close)
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I live about a half mile from MA 3, but grew up about 250 feet from RI 4.
My dorm this next year is about 400 feet from SR 130, and my house is almost exactly a mile away from I-80.
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
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.
About 100 feet from US 62
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.
About 425 feet to the median of I-264 with some three-story buildings shielding us from any road noise
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.
I live about 2 miles from US 231.
I'm about 300-400 feet laterally and 120 feet vertically from US 1 south of Alexandria.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For another few days, I will have an address on a 4-lane stretch of US 20 with my house under 100 feet from the road. It gets LOUD. Starting next week, I'll be a few hundred feet from a state route (and ~10 feet from an old alignment).
I'm about four blocks from WI 47 here in Appleton. I'm also about a block from the Oneida Skyline Bridge (Fox River), which is an un-numbered 'secret' state highway (it and Oneida St to the south to US 10/WI 441 is owned/maintained by WisDOT).
Mike
My current home is approximately 1420 feet from the outer shoulder of I-12 at its closest approach.
My previous residence was ~250 feet from the edge of I-110. Thanks to concrete construction of the building, the traffic noise was noticeable, but not much of a bother.
QuoteI'm about 300-400 feet laterally and 120 feet vertically from US 1 south of Alexandria.
I had roughly similar dimensions from 2008-2012. My street address was officially Richmond Hwy (US 1).
Then I moved on the opposite side of my building from US 58 in Norfolk. Now I'm over 2.5 miles from the nearest paved road, let alone a numbered route...
Quote from: Roadgeek Adam on August 12, 2014, 03:59:43 PM
Define numbered highway.
Likewise. The front of my building is the outer edge of the sidewalk for a numbered street. Of course, a lot of people in New York City can say that. :-D
If we insist it be a numbered
route and don't count numbered
streets, the closest one of those is about 3000 feet from my front door. No, I am not saying which one publicly on the internet.
I live 1200 feet from U.S. 50, which is a four-lane, 65 mph expressway in my area. It's not a major through truck route, so I'm generally able to tune the traffic noise out. On those few below-zero (F) mornings we have in the winter, the sound is intensified so that it sounds like traffic is coming through my driveway.
About 400 feet from Interstate 75's northbound lanes in North Toledo.
I live a block or so away from Nebraska State Highway 370, at least for now (I may get a new apartment soon).
FWIW, my dad lived in a house on US 75 in Luverne, Minnesota in the 60's. He then moved to an apartment which was on what is now old US 16 there (but I don't know if it was still US 16 then). Of course, that's where my mom lived and the rest is history.
I live a half mile away from US 62-Ohio 3....just over a mile away from I-71 and an interchange there....and about the same distance from I-270 (no interchange)
QuoteHe then moved to an apartment which was on what is now old US 16 there (but I don't know if it was still US 16 then).
Would have been US 16 until ca. 1967. West of US 75 then became MN 17 until ca. 1980.
Until I was 6 years old I lived on MA 145 (aka Pleasant St.); at different times I lived in buildings surrounded by IN 26 (including fronting it on two streets as 26 turned) and by DE 273 (and then Business DE 2), that is, in buildings between the streets making up the pair of one-ways.
I now live 1000 feet or so from the nearest numbered state route, which seems far away compared to those two situations above where I had to cross a numbered route to get to the rest of the universe! :P
I've lived directly on the following NJ county routes:
510, 617 (Morris), 627 (Camden), 657 (Middlesex)
The closest I've lived to an interstate is 0.6 miles (287), 560 feet from a US Route (202), 680 feet from a state route (27 and 41, not at the same time), 0.2 miles from a freeway (Garden State Parkway)
200 feet off (old, but Google Maps still marks it anyway) N-330. In this side of the pond when a route enter a city it turns city-controlled, effectively breaking a route.
PS: The closest route in the USA to me is Alt US 1 in ME accross the border from Grand Falls NB, Canada: 3,229 miles.
Not as close as some of you. I'm 2¾ miles west of US-23, and about 5 miles south of M-50 in Monroe Co, MI
My driveway is about 500 feet long and connects directly to a two-digit Kentucky state highway. My property is at the corner of said two-digit Kentucky state highway and a three-digit state highway.
In previous residences, I've had KY 11 run through my backyard and have lived about one block from KY 1927 and a block and a half from KY 627 (former US 227).
Quote from: hbelkins on August 13, 2014, 02:42:01 PM
In [a] previous residence, I've had KY 11 run through my backyard
Literally? As in, your backyard consisted of land on both sides of KY 11? Or was your backyard simply adjacent to KY 11?
I'm starting to tire of hearing about highways going
through people's yards when they are merely adjacent (or even just close-ish), and I hope this idiom goes out of style.
Quote from: vtk on August 13, 2014, 04:12:58 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on August 13, 2014, 02:42:01 PM
In [a] previous residence, I've had KY 11 run through my backyard
Literally? As in, your backyard consisted of land on both sides of KY 11? Or was your backyard simply adjacent to KY 11?
I'm starting to tire of hearing about highways going through people's yards when they are merely adjacent (or even just close-ish), and I hope this idiom goes out of style.
Interstate 93 runs through my linen closet, and the southbound HOV lane runs through my left pant leg.
Used to have a house in Greenfield, MA with property that abutted to the southbound lanes of I-91. Probably 500-600 feet but fortunately very wooded so traffic noise wasn't an issue.
CT Route 71A ran right past the east side of my house...until the state truncated it a few blocks south at Buell Street, getting closer to the Berlin town line.
Also, my former residence in Old Orchard Beach, ME was along Saco Avenue, a.k.a. ME Route 5.
Quote from: vtk on August 13, 2014, 04:12:58 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on August 13, 2014, 02:42:01 PM
In [a] previous residence, I've had KY 11 run through my backyard
Literally? As in, your backyard consisted of land on both sides of KY 11? Or was your backyard simply adjacent to KY 11?
Actually, there is a narrow piece of property owned by someone else between my property and the slope of the fill for that portion of KY 11.
QuoteI'm starting to tire of hearing about highways going through people's yards when they are merely adjacent (or even just close-ish), and I hope this idiom goes out of style.
Don't we have a thread somewhere for pedantic comments? :)
I am 1500 feet from exit 206 on I-5, which is with WA-531.
I live 2/10 mile from US 17, 92, and 441 in Orlando.
The distance from my back window to the edge of the nearest freeway is about 40 feet.
It's the Central Freeway in SF, but it's the portion that's unnumbered! There's also a soundwall and I've got pretty thick windows and walls... so it's not particularly bothersome, even though where I am (3rd floor) is about the same level as traffic.
I'm a little under 600 feet from a Georgia state route and just under 1/3 of a mile from a US highway.
When I lived on campus as a student at Georgia Tech, my window was about 30 feet (horizontally) from the shoulder of southbound I-75/I-85. Had a pretty nice view looking south toward downtown.
I live 500m (1640 ft) away from route A28 (Pennant Hills Rd/Cumberland Hwy)
I live about 900 ft from CT 10. My dad grew up in a house on CT 10. When I lived in Philly, I was 2 blocks from US 13 and PA 3
I'm approx. 280 ft. from US 22 and OH 3 and 0.1 miles from OH 561, according to Google Maps.
I'm about 1500 feet from KY 913.
0.5 mi from the nearest highway. That is all.
Prior to my move to PA in 1990; I lived right along MA 114 in Marblehead.
Since October of 1990, I've resided along along SR 2017.
During 3 of my 4 college years when I lived on campus, which was located along RI 114; the northern end was located along RI 136.
Quote from: PHLBOS on August 19, 2014, 08:47:24 AM
Since October of 1990, I've resided along along SR 2017.
Are you going to stay there for at least another 3 years? Then the route number will match the year.
As the crow flies, I'm about 1000 feet from US 421 and Interstate 40 is less than 2 miles away.
I'm about a mile from I-55. When I lived in an apartment complex in suburban Atlanta, I-85 was practically in my backyard.
I live about 3600 feet from I-95, late in the evenings when it's quiet I can hear the traffic in my den.
When I lived in Maryland I lived a thousand feet away from both the John Hanson Hwy and the Metrorail Orange Line. Got to hear both quite a bit on the weekend nights.
I live on decommissioned MD 148 and about 3/10 of a mile from US 1.
.2 miles from Kentucky SR 18.
I live about 250 feet from US 22 and about a mile from I-83 and 1-1/2 miles from I-81
I live roughly 0.5 miles from I-30/US 67 in Greenville, TX
My bedroom window is 85 feet from NY 14.
3217 miles from Interstate 95 in Maine. That's the closest Interstate Highway to me.
For a while during my childhood, my front door was about 20 feet from US 6, and there have to be thousands of houses in towns and cities all over the country that are the same 20 or so feet from a highway.
100 meters from the interchange of CT 20 and CT 401, with an address on the prior alignment of CT 20.
Why traffic noise is a secondary consideration at this location is left as an exercise for the reader. :)
I am about 528 feet from DUNBARTON RD, which is SC 39.
I am 0.8 miles from the nearest major highway, US 78, and more than 2 miles away from another major highway, US 278. I am 18 miles away from US 301, and 25 miles away from Interstate 20.
I've always lived at least a few blocks from the nearest numbered highway, so I'm not going to "win".
But I wonder, do any of those buildings over I-95 as is crosses the northern end of Manhattan serve as residences? In that case, if we throw out the third dimension, they would "win" at a distance of 0. If not there, there must be some places where that happens. Candidates that come to mind don't have residences above the highway that I know of. The ones off the top of my head are the Mass Pike outside Boston where there's the supermarket and a hotel above the highway, and some park land above I-90 on Mercer Island, WA. Is all of the land now above the Big Dig in the footprint of the former Central Artery just park land?
QuoteI've always lived at least a few blocks from the nearest numbered highway, so I'm not going to "win".
So far, it seems I win in the "opposite direction". Of the responses thus far, I'm the farthest away.
QuoteIs all of the land now above the Big Dig in the footprint of the former Central Artery just park land?
Most of it is park land or street, yes. But there's a new development now (The Victor Apartments) at the corner of Beverly St and Valenti Way (across from The Garden) that appears to be partially on top of the southbound tunnel.
Quote from: Jim on September 12, 2014, 10:08:41 PM
But I wonder, do any of those buildings over I-95 as is crosses the northern end of Manhattan serve as residences? In that case, if we throw out the third dimension, they would "win" at a distance of 0. If not there, there must be some places where that happens.
The tunnels in Pittsburgh come to mind. It looks like there are neighborhoods on top of the mountains that the Squirrel Hill, Ft. Pitt, and Liberty Tunnels go through.
When I lived in upstate New York, I lived about 1/3 mile from US 9 in Columbia County. When I completed my move from Coral Springs, FL to Milledgeville, GA, I moved to a new home about twice the distance (about 1 mile vs. 2 miles) from the exact same US highway, US 441, but the homes are 582 miles apart from each other.
I live like 2 or 3 miles off old US 66, now CA 66
Quote from: Chris on September 11, 2014, 03:58:16 AM
3217 miles from Interstate 95 in Maine. That's the closest Interstate Highway to me.
I'm 33 miles further from that point :sombrero:.
Silver Spring place - about 535 feet to U.S. 29.
About 1500 feet to Md. 200.
Edgewater place - about 1870 feet to Md. 253.
I'm 445 feet from US 165
Quote from: froggie on August 12, 2014, 08:49:21 PM
QuoteI'm about 300-400 feet laterally and 120 feet vertically from US 1 south of Alexandria.
I had roughly similar dimensions from 2008-2012. My street address was officially Richmond Hwy (US 1).
Then I moved on the opposite side of my building from US 58 in Norfolk. Now I'm over 2.5 miles from the nearest paved road, let alone a numbered route...
I'm about 3.2 miles from M-37.
84% of Michigan residents live within 2 miles of a state trunkline... I figured my county would be an exception to that, but looking at it on Google Maps, I see very few points that are more than 4 away, and probably none over 6. And this is a state with very few state-maintained roads for its population...
I'm a block from MA114, and about 50 feet from a sign erroneously signing my street as such.
Quote from: DBrim on September 18, 2014, 11:05:14 PM
I'm a block from MA114, and about 50 feet from a sign erroneously signing my street as such.
Being a North Shore native; I believe I know the location and the MassDOT D6/D8 signs (aka Paddle LGS') you're referring to. Those signs
should contain the word
TO in front of the 114 shields.
Quote from: PHLBOS on September 19, 2014, 10:33:43 AM
Quote from: DBrim on September 18, 2014, 11:05:14 PM
I'm a block from MA114, and about 50 feet from a sign erroneously signing my street as such.
Being a North Shore native; I believe I know the location and the MassDOT D6/D8 signs (aka Paddle LGS') you're referring to. Those signs should contain the word TO in front of the 114 shields.
I've moved to Salem since the last time I wasn't lazy enough to update my profile.
Surely a countless number of people live in houses or apartment buildings in the middle of the one-way couplets that many numbered highways take through the downtown areas of most cities. Does that count as a negative distance?
I am apporximately 8/10's of a mile from US 93 Business and US 12.
Quote from: dfwmapper on September 20, 2014, 12:29:00 AM
Surely a countless number of people live in houses or apartment buildings in the middle of the one-way couplets that many numbered highways take through the downtown areas of most cities. Does that count as a negative distance?
That reminds me of the Holiday Inn in Charleston, SC being in the median of US 17 south of the Ashley River! It is not a residence, but people are living there either overnight or for a few days. It is interesting as you sleep you have cars on a major US route surround you.
Anyway, I would think it would all count as someone fronting a numbered highway for apartments in the middle of couplets.
The ones that are interesting is where interstate alignments such as I-24 in TN (Monteagle Grade) and I-75 in OH (Cincinnati) that split ways apart and if you were to have someone live in the middle of the two roadways, but far enough in from either of that you cannot be considered fronting.
Quote from: roadman65 on September 20, 2014, 11:17:34 AM
The ones that are interesting is where interstate alignments such as I-24 in TN (Monteagle Grade) and I-75 in OH (Cincinnati) that split ways apart and if you were to have someone live in the middle of the two roadways, but far enough in from either of that you cannot be considered fronting.
I've stayed at the hotel in the median of I-84 in Massachusetts near Exit 1. Apparently, it's a Days Inn now, but I am pretty sure it was something else when I stayed there about 10 years ago.
Driving up NY 30 in Scotch Bush today reminded me of this thread when I passed by the house whose wall can't be more than 8 or 10 feet off the pavement.
https://goo.gl/maps/aKtXZ (https://goo.gl/maps/aKtXZ)
You can see the house in the GMSV link from the above map location.
I'm a block and a half from Delaware 2.
Currently (as the crow flies) I'm 1290 feet from CA-213.
Closest I ever was to a highway was 780 feet from I-5 in the first place I lived.
Perhaps not surprisingly living in California, I've never been more than 1.3 miles from a freeway, and I've lived at 14 different addresses.
Quote from: DBrim on September 19, 2014, 06:07:15 PMI've moved to Salem since the last time I wasn't lazy enough to update my profile.
The only sign that erroneously refers to a road as MA 114 in Salem I'm aware of is the lower D8 panel facing MA 1A Southbounders at the intersection of Lafayette/Derby/New Derby Streets stating that New Derby St. is MA 114 West. Again, there should be a
TO either above or to the left of said-114 shield.
A week from now, I get to move into an apartment in Mason City, Iowa that's on Iowa highway 122, although technically, the street address is on a side street.
I'm 410 feet from KY 146.
The nearest two-digit route is 1.75 miles away, the nearest US route is 3.6 miles away, the nearest 3di is 0.71 miles away, and the nearest 2di is 3.1 miles away.
Quote from: TR69 on November 12, 2016, 09:07:25 AM
I'm 410 feet from KY 146.
The nearest two-digit route is 1.75 miles away, the nearest US route is 3.6 miles away, the nearest 3di is 0.71 miles away, and the nearest 2di is 3.1 miles away.
Isn't everybody in Kentucky within 500 feet of a numbered highway???
My apartment is about half a mile from the Henry Hudson Parkway (NY 9A). There's no entrance there, though, so you have to drive over a mile to actually get on as opposed to just looking down on it from Riverside Park.
It's 334 feet from my back deck to SR-1222 (no one specified signed routes) :spin:
It's 0.48 miles from the edge of my property to US-17 Business for those who demand signage. :)
As a very young child (too young to remember it) my back property line was approximately 500 feet from I-94.
note: distances measured in straight lines not driving distance.
I live 394 Feet from I-94 in Eau Claire, WI
The property line of our building is ten feet from US 41.
I'm about 1000 ft from WI 47, and road noise is not a problem.
This isn't me, but some relatives: My father's parents once lived maybe one-eighth of a mile from U.S. 50/301/secret I-595 outside of Annapolis, Maryland, and not much further from the south end of I-97. My mom's mother, until earlier this year, lived about 1/4 mile from U.S. 17 in North Myrtle Beach.
From the edge of my short driveway, 3200 ft to I-840, 4300 ft to I-24, and 1.2 mi to the center of the intersection of them.
Quote from: JMoses24 on August 26, 2014, 11:18:54 PM
.2 miles from Kentucky SR 18.
Since I moved, my apartment complex entrance meets Ohio State Route 4 1,198 feet away.
I live between a one-way pair containing NY 2. My building takes up the entire block, so one stairwell is at WB and the other at EB. While my address is 6th Avenue, I get into the lot from EB and exit onto WB.
My driveway is attached to US 80. So does this count as 0' away from a numbered highway?
At one time, CT Route 71A went past my house...but then it's northern terminus was truncated to about 3 blocks to my south. CT Route 71 is 5 blocks away, then and now.
I live two blocks from US 21/64, and used to live right on NC 115. Never again.
My address used to be Roosevelt Road in Wheaton, Illinois, which is IL-38. There was barely any front yard, either.
Does anyone live on the block between one way pairs.. Like US13 in Odessa,DE... You could say you live in the middle of the route
LGMS428
Quote from: jwolfer on November 14, 2016, 11:15:41 PM
Does anyone live on the block between one way pairs.. Like US13 in Odessa,DE... You could say you live in the middle of the route
LGMS428
Yes.
Quote from: cl94 on November 12, 2016, 07:10:25 PM
I live between a one-way pair containing NY 2. My building takes up the entire block, so one stairwell is at WB and the other at EB. While my address is 6th Avenue, I get into the lot from EB and exit onto WB.
I don't live within a couple miles of one now but some of them that were under a quarter of a mile that I did were; US 1, FL 50, AZ 51, AZ 101, US 27, M153, and US 41. Surprisingly I've never been all that close to any of them while I've been in California. One more...forgot about US 60 when I was living in the Valley, it was literally in sight of my window overlooking the freeway.
1/4 mile from US 26, I-205 and OR 213.
3/8 mile US60 Grand Avenue Glendale, AZ USA
According to Google Maps, I'm a tenth of a mile away from IL 43.
Quote from: cjk374 on November 13, 2016, 03:31:02 PM
My driveway is attached to US 80. So does this count as 0' away from a numbered highway?
Similar here. But does a non-signed highway count? If so, then unsigned CT 431. Driveway's attached to it.
I don't live near a major highway but for 9 hours a day I'm about 100 yards from the Tri-State Tollway (I-94) in Lake County, IL. I'm lucky enough to have a window "cubicle" but unfortunately the way my desk is configured most of the time my back is to the window, which is too bad because I think I would enjoy watching traffic all day rather than just listening to it.
I split my time between living in a van down by the river, and under I-95 with the other homeless folks..
You can sometimes find me riding my bike along Illinois 7, which is about a mile from my place. Not a strong contender but it's something.
I lived for six years on the route I use as my avatar. I moved a few months before it was turned back to the city of Cambridge (thus blowing my chance at getting one of the signs... :-/ )
Nowadays I'm two miles from IA-5 and three miles from US-69. Of course, neither of those are even close...
At college I lived about 200 feet and 2 stories up on IL-38 in DeKalb
My address is on US 421, and that road is a triplex of US 421, 321, and NC 194
I live 550 feet from NY 5.
SAMSUNG-SM-G930A
If people don't mind me trespassing through their backyards, PA 995 is about 900 feet away.
Quote from: ET21 on November 17, 2016, 09:52:30 AM
At college I lived about 200 feet and 2 stories up on IL-38 in DeKalb
When I lived in Stevenson South I was 2,000 feet and 8 stories up from IL 38.
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?
When I lived in Texas in 2015, my street address was actually something like 8221 North IH-35. It is hard to get any more major than that.My place of residence was actually on the side of the building away from the freeway, so I may now live closer to the centerline of G-4 than I did to I-35.
In the 1980s, I lived in an apartment complex in Sacramento that was bounded by US-50 and CASR-16.
I currently live about 200 m from Santa Clara County Road G-4.
350 feet down the street from me lies CT 302. Pretty darn close, and with a sidewalk too!
Quote from: TR69 on November 25, 2016, 03:39:38 PM
Quote from: ET21 on November 17, 2016, 09:52:30 AM
At college I lived about 200 feet and 2 stories up on IL-38 in DeKalb
When I lived in Stevenson South I was 2,000 feet and 8 stories up from IL 38.
I spent 9 years of my life living about 200 feet from IL 38 in Geneva.
The only numbered highway I've ever lived right on (driveway access) is Arizona 77.
I had not posted on this thread because I thought that the closest to a highway that I ever lived was my current house, about an unimpressive half mile from US 20 in South Bend. It just occurred to me that when I was very young I lived about 800 feet from US 35 in Muncie. I had forgotten that 35 was routed along Wysor Street until some time in the late 1950s. (See the 1956 Shell Indiana highway map from the David Rumsey collection: http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/workspace/handleMediaPlayer?lunaMediaId=RUMSEY~8~1~212070~5500208 (http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/workspace/handleMediaPlayer?lunaMediaId=RUMSEY~8~1~212070~5500208).)
Wysor is the east-west red line near the middle of Muncie:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi68.tinypic.com%2F2i6klqx.png&hash=7ec6901751f8f0291acd1defef0bd0a1731d917c)
Quote from: Mrt90 on November 15, 2016, 09:58:54 AM
I don't live near a major highway but for 9 hours a day I'm about 100 yards from the Tri-State Tollway (I-94) in Lake County, IL. I'm lucky enough to have a window "cubicle" but unfortunately the way my desk is configured most of the time my back is to the window, which is too bad because I think I would enjoy watching traffic all day rather than just listening to it.
When I was a teenager my dads office was on the 5th floor of this building here: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9960618,-87.8661798,540a,20y,239.86h,44.89t/data=!3m1!1e3 (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9960618,-87.8661798,540a,20y,239.86h,44.89t/data=!3m1!1e3)
South facing window, beautiful view of the NW (oops Adams) Tollway and a few of O'hare's runways.
528 ft from TX6 and 2,112 ft from I-69
SM-N915T
Unless I missed someone, sounds like I'm still the farthest away from a state/US/Interstate/provincial route...(~4.5 miles)
Quote from: jwolfer on November 14, 2016, 11:15:41 PM
Does anyone live on the block between one way pairs.. Like US13 in Odessa,DE... You could say you live in the middle of the route
LGMS428
I lived between the eastbound and westbound sides of DE 273/Business 2 for two years (between Delaware Ave and Main Street) and then between the eastbound and westbound sides of IN 26 for a year as well (between State St and two of the streets rounding the square dance of eastbound 26). Plus "living" at Harry's Chocolate Shop which fronted westbound 26 and had eastbound 26 at the other end of the block of Pierce St.
In both cases, I couldn't reach the rest of the universe without crossing one side or the other of the state highway.
I've moved since my previous post in this thread and can now say I live within 500 feet of the nearest numbered route.
As before, I still live directly on a numbered street - actually closer to one than before, since although my current building has some grass between it and the sidewalk, my current apartment is in the front rather than rear of said building.
I currently live directly on US-127, which is Hamilton Avenue here in Cincinnati. I live on the 12th floor, so I can also see parts of both I-74 and I-75.
In my college days, I lived in an apartment on East Grand River Avenue, which is M-43, but was at one time US-16. I also spent a college summer working on Mackinac Island, and lived in a rooming house on M-185, which goes by both Main St and Lake Shore Drive.
My backyard fence is about 13 feet from I-55. I'm glad the previous owners got the fence concrete reinforced.
Quote from: ColossalBlocks on March 07, 2017, 09:14:07 AM
My backyard fence is about 13 feet from I-55. I'm glad the previous owners got the fence concrete reinforced.
Is this stretch of I-55 busy in any way? If so, how noisy is it, and if not, how does it affect you? Incidents, things like that. I'd imagine nothing much happens if it's not a stretch of freeway with a considerable amount of traffic.
About 2000 feet from I-5 and about 3000 from WA 513. Hm, I hope I'm not giving too much information to nefarious stalkers.
According to Google Maps, I'm currently sitting about 325 feet from US 191.
Quote from: index on March 08, 2017, 03:39:25 PM
Quote from: ColossalBlocks on March 07, 2017, 09:14:07 AM
My backyard fence is about 13 feet from I-55. I'm glad the previous owners got the fence concrete reinforced.
Is this stretch of I-55 busy in any way? If so, how noisy is it, and if not, how does it affect you? Incidents, things like that. I'd imagine nothing much happens if it's not a stretch of freeway with a considerable amount of traffic.
Depends on the time of day. Noise never bothers me in any way. There was a time when a pickup pulling a camper spun out of control on a patch of black ice and went through my neighbor's backyard fence.
Closest to me is l-95
Quote from: 1 on April 23, 2017, 12:32:28 PM
Quote from: US71 on April 23, 2017, 12:28:57 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on April 23, 2017, 12:21:20 PM
Quote from: US71 on April 22, 2017, 11:41:51 PM
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Closest to me is l-95
How far?
1 mile by car.
How far on foot?
On foot is almost always the same as by car or close to it. Straight-line distance ("as the crow flies") is often shorter, though.
A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.
Quote from: US71 on April 23, 2017, 12:50:37 PM
Quote from: 1 on April 23, 2017, 12:32:28 PM
Quote from: US71 on April 23, 2017, 12:28:57 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on April 23, 2017, 12:21:20 PM
Quote from: US71 on April 22, 2017, 11:41:51 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on April 22, 2017, 12:10:24 PM
Closest to me is l-95
How far?
1 mile by car.
How far on foot?
On foot is almost always the same as by car or close to it. Straight-line distance ("as the crow flies") is often shorter, though.
A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.
I would put a straight line distance, but I have no clue how to calculate it.
Quote from: 1 on April 23, 2017, 12:32:28 PM
Quote from: US71 on April 23, 2017, 12:28:57 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on April 23, 2017, 12:21:20 PM
Quote from: US71 on April 22, 2017, 11:41:51 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on April 22, 2017, 12:10:24 PM
Closest to me is l-95
How far?
1 mile by car.
How far on foot?
On foot is almost always the same as by car or close to it. Straight-line distance ("as the crow flies") is often shorter, though.
I am about 500 feet from I-265 by foot, but I have to drive 3/4 mile to get on it by car.