Title says it all. The "rules" of the "game" are that you cannot turn onto any other road and must follow a road until it either (a) dead ends, (b) prohibits access (i.e. reach a fence or gate), or (c) ends at a T intersection. You must calculate the furthest distance from your home.
Rules/Exceptions:
-If you live in a neighborhood, you can turn until you reach the main exit of your subdivision. From there, choose the longest distance. This also includes driveways.
-Loops DO NOT count for this game. Sorry, no infinite answers. To clarify: If your measurement takes you onto a beltway, it continues until you reach your starting point. Then it ends.
-You don't have to stick to numbered routes; in fact you might be forced off of them. Quality does not matter as well.
-If a road curves, but also intersects another road, follow the main movement (i.e. pavement markings/road with more lanes/road with better maintenance).
-You may choose places you have previously lived to find the longest distances. You cannot choose hotels/houses you have temporarily stayed in.
-If a road ends at a ramp, you must choose the ramp that goes straight (for example, trumpet interchanges; you can only go straight). Your measurement ends when you must turn onto a ramp or if a ramp splits.
-Merges do not count, but exit only lanes do. In other words, you cannot change lanes; you must exit the road and follow the movement that does not require a turn.
Let the games begin.
For me, I got 10.7 miles. Not impressive; I'm sure those who live in more rural areas can likely garner 20+ miles.
A whopping 0.4 miles, but a street a few blocks away goes on for about 70.
2 1/4 miles.
1.31 miles from my current apartment, and that's being generous (my apartment has 3 exits, 2 onto the main road, so I used the one farther away from the far end of the road)
1.78 from my previous apartment in Rome, NY
9.11 miles from the house I grew up in
22.47 miles from college
25.76 for the apartment I rented for three months while I had my internship
12.2 miles north from my house. Had I been permitted at least one turn it would have been close to 30 miles.
About 50 miles.
VA-165, VA-149, General Booth Blvd, Pacific Ave, US-60, and VA-168 ending at the stub in Ocean View where the HRBT used to connect to before I-64 got built in '76.
If the VA-168 stub at Ocean View seamlessly continued onto I-64 instead of dead-ending and requiring you to to turn on, I could go another 240 miles without turning by following I-64 to Downtown Richmond which seamlessly flows onto I-95 North, follow I-95 to I-495 in Northern Virginia where it seamlessly continues onto the Beltway east, and follow the Beltway back around to the I-95 / I-395 / I-495.
Out of the driveway? 3/8ths of a mile (3 blocks).
4.2 miles. If I took three more turns, I could go 1,912. :)
19.6 :sombrero:
8.5 miles. At my previous address, 154 miles.
My official address is inside a mobile home park so my streets are short. They dead end at the east side, but end at a border street on the west end. I would say my street is about 0.2 miles long.
Turn left, half a block. Turn right, about 17 miles/28 km.
Mike
Leaving my driveway to my street, I can only go about a fifth of a mile either direction. If I take a right and get to the main road, I could go about 18 miles north on CT 10 and a local road to end at CT 185 in Simsbury. If I head south: if I follow the main movement (CT 10) at the curve, I could go about 8 miles, and eventually end up heading north for much of the distance and end at CT 229 just south of CT 72. If I continued straight into the local road, I could go at least 25 miles, and would eventually rejoin CT 10, and follow Whitney Ave into New Haven, then Temple St, then curve into MLK Blvd and North Frontage Rd (CT 34 West) to end back at...you guessed it: CT 10.
Another good one: you could go from JFK to Logan without making a full turn. I-678, Hutch Parkway, CT 15, I-84, bear east onto I-90 and then exit at Logan. If you continued straight past Logan, you would continue onto MA 1A North, then MA 60 West, and US 1 North to BYP US 1 through Portsmouth Circle and up the Spaulding Turnpike and NH/ME 16 to end at ME 27 in Eustis.
Question...for a highway that enters a traffic circle/roundabout. Do I end there or follow the "through" movement that keeps me on the numbered highway?
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Quote from: bassoon1986 on September 08, 2019, 12:56:21 PM
Question...for a highway that enters a traffic circle/roundabout. Do I end there or follow the "through" movement that keeps me on the numbered highway?
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Choose whatever movement has the most traffic. If it's a tie (two or more movements have roughly equal traffic), then choose the longest possible distance.
From my typically-used exit from my parking deck: about 350 feet if I turn right until the street becomes one-way in the "wrong" direction, or about 450 feet if I turn left until it ends into a parking lot.
If I were to drive around to the other exit, though, a left turn would get me about 18 miles before the road ends.
About 2 miles, but if I'm allowed one turn it goes up to 53.
18.20 miles, from my home in Indian Trail, NC, to between Van Wyck and Indian Land, SC. It ends at the junction between SC 75 and US 521.
For my old residence in Lorton, Fairfax County, VA, I get 30.94 miles, ending at the junction between VA SR 123 and 120, at the Chain Bridge.
18.9 miles, from my home in Lee County, Ky., to the T intersection of KY 52 and KY 1571 in Ravenna in Estill County.
Applying strictly the rules, as I exit my garage on the only direction allowed I hit a T intersection before even going 0.1 miles. However, from one side of my block I can go 36 miles before hitting a T intersection.
30.2 miles going west then north on IN-257
From my current house, 5.0 miles after leaving my neighborhood.
From my parents' house, 60 miles (right out of their neighborhood onto VA-236 west, straight ahead when it becomes US-50, follow that out to Winchester).
From where we lived when I was a little kid, 0.2 miles (short road after leaving our neighborhood).
From college: 115 miles (US-29 Business becomes US-29, continue straight ahead onto US-50 at Fairfax Circle, continue on US-50 until it hits a T-intersection at Pennsylvania Avenue in DC). If you consider the split at the ramp to the Roosevelt Bridge a "turn" (I don't), it's 112 miles.
From law school: 1.9 miles (Erwin Road south to the light at NC-751).
Left out of my driveway, 1.4 miles before a T-intersection.
Right, 1.0 miles before a T-intersection.
If allowed 1 turn, I could go 19.9 miles.
If I follow the intent of your question, if I turn left, it's 4.6 miles, and if I turn right, it's about 145 miles.
However, since I live on a numbered highway (US-127), if I follow the number to the end it's about 356 miles to the left and 402 to the right.
The parking lot of my apartment has 2 exits, the north one to the N/S street I officially live on and the south one to an alley which is E/W. Going out the north exit, it's .3 miles to the left and probably 100 feet at most to the right, since my street officially ends at the alley. Going out the south exit, if I make a left and go to the east end of the alley, it's .3 miles north and .5 miles south. If I make a right to the west end of the alley, it's slightly more than 1 mile to the right and 2.5 miles to the left, as it deadends when it approaches US 18.
I would have preferred to have my street address be the road outside my window, IA 122. It's 106 miles at a point SW of Spencer, IA. It would be 15 miles to County B30 and US 18 east of Rudd, IA.
After leaving my neighborhood: 1 mile if left, 2 miles if right.
If I just turn up the hill from my apartment and make a left at the top, 10 Miles to the southern most tip of my Island. If however, I turn left at the State Route... 56.5 Miles from Clinton, WA, over SR 525, I-405, and SR 518 to Lake Burien School Memorial Park, in Burien, WA.
My current road...barely 0.5 mi north and maybe 2 miles north.
The longest would be my childhood home...7 miles north and close to 20 miles south/west.
Current residence: 6.6 miles north on Hohman/Sheffield Avenues until T-ing into Calumet Ave.
Longest distance for a former residence: 74.0 miles east on US 6 until T-ing into OH 49 in Edgerton, OH.
Nearly 1,800 miles from the end of my block if I make an illegal left turn. TX 71 to I-10 (the through route merges) to I-12 back to I-10 to I-95 (counting this as taking one side of a fork rather than a turn) to VA/DC I-395 to DC I-695 to DC/MD 295 (again treating the split at the end of a highway as a fork rather than a turn) and eventually to central Baltimore before hitting a T-junction.
If I make the right turn, it's 65 miles to the TX 71/TX 16 junction in Llano.
Quote from: djlynch on September 10, 2019, 08:54:17 PM
If I make the right turn, it's 65 miles to the TX 71/TX 16 junction in Llano.
Where US-290 and TX-71 split east of Austin, the thru movement actually follows US-290, so you'd end up near Johnson City at a T-intersection with US-281.
When going from Greenville to Raleigh, About 70 miles i can go without turning (this is my mentor, not me).
I grew up in a house on Highway 70 in the Safford, az area. Going west, it's 518 miles going west: 70 becomes 60; staying in my lane, that lane becomes right lane of I-10 which becomes the left lane of I-17 a few miles later. That route goes north to Flagstaff, dumps off on Milton Ave, which becomes Route 66, which becomes US 89 and goes on up into Utah. If I go straight at the light in Kanab instead of following the right turn of 89, the road goes through a neighborhood and ends up on Powell Drive, which eventually becomes a dirt road and ends at some sort of water holding pond south of Kanab near the Arizona border.
Going east on US 70 from my old home, the road enters a Trumpet interchange at Motel Drive in Lordsburg, NM which dumps onto Main Street and turns into NM 494, ending at a locked gate at the entrance to the old Banner mine. Total of 83 miles.
I used to live in Utah at an apartment complex on State Street in Midvale. Going left it was 10.2 miles to the state capitol. going right it was 8.4 miles to a cul de sac at the end of Minuteman Drive.
When I used to live in Orlando at first if I left my subdivision off Orange Blossom Trail turning left would go over 50 miles to end at US 27 in Leesburg. When FDOT realigned the US 441 and 27 intersection for 441 to be main body, it now would be 200 miles as US 441 would go straight all the way to Lake City before becoming US 41 which has no turns until Jasper, FL in Hamilton County just south of the GA Border.
From my current house: only about a mile from the main exit in either direction.
From my former house: 5 miles west to a Y-junction the heart of the city, or 11 miles east to a T-junction the heart of the country.
If I turn south out of my driveway, I can only go one long block before turning. Turn north, and I can go about 3/4 of a mile.
But if I understand the rules correctly, I'm allowed one more turn to "get out of my subdivision".
To the south, that doesn't improve things much, because my street T's into another street that is only 2 short blocks long.
To the north, I can turn east or west at the end of my street onto a substantial county road.
- If I turn west, it goes for 18 miles before ending.
- I could follow eastward about 4 miles, at which point the road bends north (with the same name for another 1/4 mile or so). Then it joins with another road for a little over a mile, taking that road's name, before bending back south to join it's original alignment and original name. From there it continues about 7 miles to it's end. Through all the curves and name changes though, it retains "mainline" status, so I'd consider the entire 12+ miles as one "road without turning". Still, not as long as the 18 miles turning west.
Quote from: noelbotevera on September 07, 2019, 10:33:53 PM
Title says it all. The "rules" of the "game" are that you cannot turn onto any other road and must follow a road until it either (a) dead ends, (b) prohibits access (i.e. reach a fence or gate), or (c) ends at a T intersection. You must calculate the furthest distance from your home.
Rules/Exceptions:
-If you live in a neighborhood, you can turn until you reach the main exit of your subdivision. From there, choose the longest distance. This also includes driveways.
-Loops DO NOT count for this game. Sorry, no infinite answers. To clarify: If your measurement takes you onto a beltway, it continues until you reach your starting point. Then it ends.
-You don't have to stick to numbered routes; in fact you might be forced off of them. Quality does not matter as well.
-If a road curves, but also intersects another road, follow the main movement (i.e. pavement markings/road with more lanes/road with better maintenance).
-You may choose places you have previously lived to find the longest distances. You cannot choose hotels/houses you have temporarily stayed in.
-If a road ends at a ramp, you must choose the ramp that goes straight (for example, trumpet interchanges; you can only go straight). Your measurement ends when you must turn onto a ramp or if a ramp splits.
-Merges do not count, but exit only lanes do. In other words, you cannot change lanes; you must exit the road and follow the movement that does not require a turn.
Let the games begin.
For me, I got 10.7 miles. Not impressive; I'm sure those who live in more rural areas can likely garner 20+ miles.
In Austin, I lived -ON- IH-35. I believe that I was on the Northbound side, so I guess that I could theoretically have gone into Canada without having to turn.
In Sacramento, I lived on the on-ramp to Southbound CASR-99, so after merging, a few hours later, I would have been in Mexico.
Currently, I live just a bazooka shot from I-880 in South Fremont. If I am allowed to take the on-ramp southbound, I would eventually end up on CASR-17 and might be able to follow your rules getting onto CASR-1 southbound and get to somewhere near Long Beach, but, if I recall correctly, you have to make some turns to stay on CASR-1 in San Luis Obispo. If I am allowed to take I-880 northbound, I believe that I can follow your rules and end up on Westbound I-80. If I avoid turning onto the ramps that allow one to stay on I-80 in West Sacramento, I could be on US-50 all of the way to Ocean City, MD (I am not sure that all moves to stay on US-50 will follow the rules).
That sounds like what used to happen in Zaragoza, Spain. Before the tram (streetcar) was built, someone living on Calle Corona de Aragon could go from home well into France without turning at all.
A weird one also involves Zaragoza. Someone living on Gran Via can get South of Teruel on the old highway (first N-330, then N-234) without turning, but then is forced back North on the A-23 freeway, ending just 2 miles away from the starting point.
However neither one counts for this thread, as I have never lived in either street (In fact I have never moved).
My sister's neighborhood has multiple exits:
60th St (at South Grove Drive)
Left (East): 5.7 miles, ending at a T intersection along Thornapple River Dr at 68th St (60th curves into Thornapple River Dr)
Right (West): 4.8 miles, ending at a dead end along 60th St just west of Division Ave
52nd St (at Bailey's Grove Drive)
Left (West): 11.9 miles, ending at a T intersection along Barry St at 8th Ave (52nd curves into Kellogg Woods Dr, then 54th St, then Gezon Pkwy, then 56th St before crossing into Ottawa County and becoming Barry St)
Right (East): 2.8 miles, ending at a dead end along 52nd St just east of Kraft Ave (52nd used to extend to a T intersection with Thornapple River Dr before the airport built its north/south runway)
East Paris Ave (at De Blaay Drive)
Left (North): 1.2 miles, ending at a T intersection along Barden Dr at M-37/Broadmoor Ave (East Paris curves into Barden not far north of 52nd St)
Right (South): 1.6 miles, ending at a dead end along East Paris Ave just south of 68th St
2 miles. Thanks I-71.
From my place in Wise County, VA, about 120 miles. I pick up US 58 Alt all the way out to Cumberland Gap, merge onto 25E to Corbin, KY.
Quote from: milbfan on September 13, 2019, 10:56:23 PM
From my place in Wise County, VA, about 120 miles. I pick up US 58 Alt all the way out to Cumberland Gap, merge onto 25E to Corbin, KY.
Gotta call foul on this one. I'm not sure where you are in Wise County, but Alt. 58 exits 23 at Big Stone Gap, then turns left downtown. And it ends at Jonesville, where you would have to turn right to hit 58 to go to Cumberland Gap. From Norton, you have to turn twice just to stay on Alt. 58 to Jonesville.
Making a left out of my neighborhood, I can go about 11.5 miles before dead-ending at the river in Poquoson.
Quote from: hbelkins on September 13, 2019, 11:24:11 PM
Quote from: milbfan on September 13, 2019, 10:56:23 PM
From my place in Wise County, VA, about 120 miles. I pick up US 58 Alt all the way out to Cumberland Gap, merge onto 25E to Corbin, KY.
Gotta call foul on this one. I'm not sure where you are in Wise County, but Alt. 58 exits 23 at Big Stone Gap, then turns left downtown. And it ends at Jonesville, where you would have to turn right to hit 58 to go to Cumberland Gap. From Norton, you have to turn twice just to stay on Alt. 58 to Jonesville.
First off, US-58 Alt to US-58 is a seamless, straight movement in Jonesville. The turning movement is US-58 to US-58.
Second, if he lives in Big Stone Gap, then the whole exiting off US-23 isn't a problem.
So I wouldn't call it "foul" .
If I turn left out of the entrance to my "back door" in my townhouse complex, 1.1 miles.
If I turn right, 292 feet.
If I go from my front door (the street my address is), turning left is 92 feet before it dead ends short of US 165.
Turning right from my front door it's 0.2 miles.
Quote from: sprjus4 on September 14, 2019, 10:14:42 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on September 13, 2019, 11:24:11 PM
Quote from: milbfan on September 13, 2019, 10:56:23 PM
From my place in Wise County, VA, about 120 miles. I pick up US 58 Alt all the way out to Cumberland Gap, merge onto 25E to Corbin, KY.
Gotta call foul on this one. I'm not sure where you are in Wise County, but Alt. 58 exits 23 at Big Stone Gap, then turns left downtown. And it ends at Jonesville, where you would have to turn right to hit 58 to go to Cumberland Gap. From Norton, you have to turn twice just to stay on Alt. 58 to Jonesville.
First off, US-58 Alt to US-58 is a seamless, straight movement in Jonesville. The turning movement is US-58 to US-58.
Second, if he lives in Big Stone Gap, then the whole exiting off US-23 isn't a problem.
So I wouldn't call it "foul" .
OK, I had forgotten about the configuration of the intersection in Jonesville.
But the end of US 58 still is a foul. You have to exit right to hit northbound 25E. The straight movement is across the four lanes of 25E and then onto southbound 25E. And it makes a left turn at New Tazewell, so the straight movement is southbound on TN 33. Not sure how far you can go on that route before you have to turn; I drove it once but don't really remember.
From my current residence, 1.4 miles.
Best for me would have to be from my college, 48 miles up the El Camino Real (CA 82) to San Francisco, then onto a bunch of streets in the city ending at Laguna & Bay.
From the entrance to my neighborhood in Bel Air, MD, 14.2 miles or 36 minutes in an almost complete loop! https://goo.gl/maps/Zw8c9mxwL4vSzavB7
Starting at the intersection of Richwood Road and Brierhill Drive, follow Brierhill until it turns into Ring Factory Rd, into Whitaker Mill Rd, into Connelly Rd, into Old Fallston Rd, into Carrs Mill Rd, into Vale Rd, into Moores Mill Road, into the shopping center road which goes behind the shopping center and ends at Brierhill Drive about 400 feet from the starting point.
Quote from: noelbotevera on September 07, 2019, 10:33:53 PM
-Merges do not count, but exit only lanes do. In other words, you cannot change lanes; you must exit the road and follow the movement that does not require a turn.
WTF? I can't change lanes because that would be considered a turn? Whereas actually
exiting the road
wouldn't be considered a turn?
Quote from: hbelkins on September 15, 2019, 07:41:29 PM
Quote from: sprjus4 on September 14, 2019, 10:14:42 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on September 13, 2019, 11:24:11 PM
Quote from: milbfan on September 13, 2019, 10:56:23 PM
From my place in Wise County, VA, about 120 miles. I pick up US 58 Alt all the way out to Cumberland Gap, merge onto 25E to Corbin, KY.
Gotta call foul on this one. I'm not sure where you are in Wise County, but Alt. 58 exits 23 at Big Stone Gap, then turns left downtown. And it ends at Jonesville, where you would have to turn right to hit 58 to go to Cumberland Gap. From Norton, you have to turn twice just to stay on Alt. 58 to Jonesville.
First off, US-58 Alt to US-58 is a seamless, straight movement in Jonesville. The turning movement is US-58 to US-58.
Second, if he lives in Big Stone Gap, then the whole exiting off US-23 isn't a problem.
So I wouldn't call it "foul" .
OK, I had forgotten about the configuration of the intersection in Jonesville.
But the end of US 58 still is a foul. You have to exit right to hit northbound 25E. The straight movement is across the four lanes of 25E and then onto southbound 25E. And it makes a left turn at New Tazewell, so the straight movement is southbound on TN 33. Not sure how far you can go on that route before you have to turn; I drove it once but don't really remember.
I'm on Powell Valley Road..
I skipped over the trumpet interchange part on accident, so you're correct with the movement.
Quote from: milbfan on September 17, 2019, 08:57:23 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on September 15, 2019, 07:41:29 PM
Quote from: sprjus4 on September 14, 2019, 10:14:42 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on September 13, 2019, 11:24:11 PM
Quote from: milbfan on September 13, 2019, 10:56:23 PM
From my place in Wise County, VA, about 120 miles. I pick up US 58 Alt all the way out to Cumberland Gap, merge onto 25E to Corbin, KY.
Gotta call foul on this one. I'm not sure where you are in Wise County, but Alt. 58 exits 23 at Big Stone Gap, then turns left downtown. And it ends at Jonesville, where you would have to turn right to hit 58 to go to Cumberland Gap. From Norton, you have to turn twice just to stay on Alt. 58 to Jonesville.
First off, US-58 Alt to US-58 is a seamless, straight movement in Jonesville. The turning movement is US-58 to US-58.
Second, if he lives in Big Stone Gap, then the whole exiting off US-23 isn't a problem.
So I wouldn't call it "foul" .
OK, I had forgotten about the configuration of the intersection in Jonesville.
But the end of US 58 still is a foul. You have to exit right to hit northbound 25E. The straight movement is across the four lanes of 25E and then onto southbound 25E. And it makes a left turn at New Tazewell, so the straight movement is southbound on TN 33. Not sure how far you can go on that route before you have to turn; I drove it once but don't really remember.
I'm on Powell Valley Road..
I skipped over the trumpet interchange part on accident, so you're correct with the movement.
Are the cutouts still standing in Big Stone Gap, along with the circle-in-a-white-box secondary route markers? It's been a long time since I have been there. Last time I was in Wise, all the unusual signage there was gone, but Norton still had plenty of cutouts.
Based on a post I saw on Facebook earlier this week, I fear a lot of the Tazewell cutouts are gone.
My road, MO 740 dead-ends near where I live, but going the other direction I go just about exactly 20 miles on it to MO 124 after 740 turns to Hwy E. If I'm allowed one turn, I can make it all the way to Iowa 2 near West Grove on 63 north.
Quote from: kphoger on September 17, 2019, 01:55:00 PM
Quote from: noelbotevera on September 07, 2019, 10:33:53 PM
-Merges do not count, but exit only lanes do. In other words, you cannot change lanes; you must exit the road and follow the movement that does not require a turn.
WTF? I can't change lanes because that would be considered a turn? Whereas actually exiting the road wouldn't be considered a turn?
I poorly worded this rule. What I'm trying to say is that this situation (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2541165,-78.1030418,3a,41.1y,212.3h,78.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-h5bJyW2v0RMo_twPFvBkw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) doesn't count as a turn. You can stay in this lane for as long as you can go straight. If the lane ends, then you continue onto the next lane. If the lane exits, then you exit off the highway. If the lane changes highways (i.e. the lane becomes a ramp) then you continue onto that highway.
Let me clarify this better: how far can I travel
without using a turn signal?
Quote from: noelbotevera on September 18, 2019, 08:17:42 PM
Let me clarify this better: how far can I travel without using a turn signal?
You might want to have that read: how far can I
legally travel
without using a turn signal? Otherwise then you have all the nincompoops who
never bother using turn signals being able to travel as far as they want. :bigass:
1 mile for either direction
Quote from: hbelkins on September 18, 2019, 12:37:31 PM
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Quote from: hbelkins on September 15, 2019, 07:41:29 PM
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Quote from: hbelkins on September 13, 2019, 11:24:11 PM
Quote from: milbfan on September 13, 2019, 10:56:23 PM
From my place in Wise County, VA, about 120 miles. I pick up US 58 Alt all the way out to Cumberland Gap, merge onto 25E to Corbin, KY.
Gotta call foul on this one. I'm not sure where you are in Wise County, but Alt. 58 exits 23 at Big Stone Gap, then turns left downtown. And it ends at Jonesville, where you would have to turn right to hit 58 to go to Cumberland Gap. From Norton, you have to turn twice just to stay on Alt. 58 to Jonesville.
First off, US-58 Alt to US-58 is a seamless, straight movement in Jonesville. The turning movement is US-58 to US-58.
Second, if he lives in Big Stone Gap, then the whole exiting off US-23 isn't a problem.
So I wouldn't call it "foul" .
OK, I had forgotten about the configuration of the intersection in Jonesville.
But the end of US 58 still is a foul. You have to exit right to hit northbound 25E. The straight movement is across the four lanes of 25E and then onto southbound 25E. And it makes a left turn at New Tazewell, so the straight movement is southbound on TN 33. Not sure how far you can go on that route before you have to turn; I drove it once but don't really remember.
I'm on Powell Valley Road..
I skipped over the trumpet interchange part on accident, so you're correct with the movement.
Are the cutouts still standing in Big Stone Gap, along with the circle-in-a-white-box secondary route markers? It's been a long time since I have been there. Last time I was in Wise, all the unusual signage there was gone, but Norton still had plenty of cutouts.
Based on a post I saw on Facebook earlier this week, I fear a lot of the Tazewell cutouts are gone.
I'll have to keep an eye out because I normally bypass that intersection where 58 Alt splits off from Business 23. Last time I was through there, I *think* they were gone/replaced with more modern ones. They've redone most of the traffic lights/intersections in town, save the one next to the Courthouse/Post Office and the other one, where Gilley Ave comes down Country Boy Hill/US 23 Business goes to the right at that light.
But, I believe the cutouts are still around in Norton, especially on Park Ave./Business 23.
Going directly straight out of my driveway (my house is at a T-intersection), I get 400m (1300ft) before reaching the other T-intersection of the crescent.
Using rule 1, I can go with two options (depending on the rule interpretation):
1) Following straight through the intersection leaving my neighbourhood, I get 9.9km (6.2mi) until the road makes a right turn at a stop sign near downtown Kitchener.
2) If I make a left at the exit from my neighbourhood, I get 11.9km (7.4mi) ending at a T-intersection in uptown Waterloo.
I live in a housing development, and it drops you onto a main road at a T, so...using the "subdivison" rule (both ends are a T btw) i can make it rather far. i can use US206 since the road that is at the end of the subdivision crosses it,and with just bends in the road it becomes after crossing 206...it becomes the main line of 206 going north. Southampton NJ to the north end of NJ27 at St Georges Ave. No turns between leaving my subdivision and getting to Rahway NJ. At least 80 miles, google is being dumb with it. but the route is quite clear, once on 206...take it until it becomes 27, following natural curves in the road. 35.52 miles on NJ27. and roughly 45 to get there.
P.S. If i REALLY wanted to be a dick i could argue that....i could get to Neponset MA. without a turn by just using the fact that US 130 and US1 merge into each other, as does 130/206, since 206 and 130 swap sides of the road in Bordentown NJ, with staying straight on 206 meaning i'm staying straight on 130. 130 north has a direct entry onto US1, US1 and I-95 meet in New York City, 95 as an interstate goes quite far before it hits a T at I-93. It is a trumpet, so considering that.... i could make it to Glouchester MA without making a turn. Where the yankee division highway ends, as 95 has an exit and i am going to straight line it. ~330 miles
My street is barely 400 feet long, thanks to the cul-de-sac layout. If I'm counting from the nearest major intersection, it's 2 miles west or 3 miles east, since the state highway actually forces you to turn in order to stay on it.
Quote from: hbelkins on September 18, 2019, 12:37:31 PM
Are the cutouts still standing in Big Stone Gap, along with the circle-in-a-white-box secondary route markers? It's been a long time since I have been there. Last time I was in Wise, all the unusual signage there was gone, but Norton still had plenty of cutouts.
They are gone in Big Stone. Checked the other day, while riding through downtown.
Forgot to mention that the City of Norton put up a huge retaining wall (or walls?). They redid the signage over by the DQ, so those old cutouts are gone.
If I turn south I can go 67 miles to US 90 at Iowa, LA.
Going north, I follow US 165, take the though route, or at least the most used exit on the traffic circle in Alexandria. Follow US 165 to Bastrop, then continue straight on LA 2 to its terminus at US 65 in Lake Providence- 181 miles
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I can't go particularly far, about 1.1 miles in one direction and 0.4 miles in the other. In both cases, the road ends in a T-intersection.
Without using the neighborhood rule, I can get 2600ft.
If I continue straight at my local DDI, I can go 12.1 miles.
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If I "turn" left onto the ramp, I can go 25.5 miles. I say "turn" with quotes, because it's more gentle than a turn and half of the lanes split off that direction.
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Quote from: bassoon1986 on September 29, 2019, 04:40:07 PM
If I turn south I can go 67 miles to US 90 at Iowa, LA.
Going north, I follow US 165, take the though route, or at least the most used exit on the traffic circle in Alexandria. Follow US 165 to Bastrop, then continue straight on LA 2 to its terminus at US 65 in Lake Providence- 181 miles
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If I was allowed 3 turns from my driveway I could get to Lake Providence too, but I'm quite a bit closer than you are
One left turn out of my neighborhood gives me 5.6 miles. If I was allowed one more turn (or if the Radar Hill/1416 junction becomes a roundabout, which I think is the current plan), I would have gone right out of the neighborhood, and the distance would increase to 1,144 miles before ending at a turn-only lane from NB 1st onto NB Railroad in Seattle. I didn't keep track of lanes very well, I just assumed that new lanes were always added on the outside.
I made it from Birmingham (the road that I turn onto to exit my neighborhood goes directly to I-65) to the option lane on I-65 at the South end of the Nashville Downtown "Loop" (I-65/40) and decided to quit following the lane as there were several possibilities from here.
My current residence is kind of boring (I either end up where Powers Ferry ends at Roswell Road in Marietta, or where Powers Ferry makes a left turn after going under I-285), but when I lived in an apartment across the street from Purdue University in West Lafayette directly on what was then US 231, I could take US 231 north until it merged with US 52, then continue on US 52 until it merged with US 41, then take US 41 all the way into Gary on Indianapolis Boulevard, which kind of ends at a wonky intersection dropping me on East 100th Street in Chicago, which takes a jog at South Torrence so I have to stop there. 109 miles and in a different timezone without using any controlled-access highways.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/40.4286584,-86.911054/41.7134183,-87.5597174/@41.2704164,-87.8470213,9z/data=!4m29!4m28!1m25!3m4!1m2!1d-87.1788263!2d40.5064327!3s0x8812f39c61f5a361:0x6ddce773ab8fdf6f!3m4!1m2!1d-87.4711009!2d41.5362026!3s0x8811e0d9ccd71a29:0x6b1b256b778b3df8!3m4!1m2!1d-87.4807192!2d41.6071885!3s0x8811de5d8d3a8d93:0xda7857834b529c08!3m4!1m2!1d-87.480857!2d41.6351993!3s0x8811dec06d65d133:0x19d2437e33f4bbe7!3m4!1m2!1d-87.4813186!2d41.6555035!3s0x8811d9350b4cdd13:0x60c50b1f3ea7af72!1m0!3e0
For some reason Google Maps refused to let me use Indianapolis Boulevard between Chicago Street and 144th Street even though it's not one-way the wrong way. Must be a bug.
Quote from: Finrod on October 09, 2019, 06:25:38 PM
My current residence is kind of boring (I either end up where Powers Ferry ends at Roswell Road in Marietta, or where Powers Ferry makes a left turn after going under I-285), but when I lived in an apartment across the street from Purdue University in West Lafayette directly on what was then US 231, I could take US 231 north until it merged with US 52, then continue on US 52 until it merged with US 41, then take US 41 all the way into Gary on Indianapolis Boulevard, which kind of ends at a wonky intersection dropping me on East 100th Street in Chicago, which takes a jog at South Torrence so I have to stop there. 109 miles and in a different timezone without using any controlled-access highways.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/40.4286584,-86.911054/41.7134183,-87.5597174/@41.2704164,-87.8470213,9z/data=!4m29!4m28!1m25!3m4!1m2!1d-87.1788263!2d40.5064327!3s0x8812f39c61f5a361:0x6ddce773ab8fdf6f!3m4!1m2!1d-87.4711009!2d41.5362026!3s0x8811e0d9ccd71a29:0x6b1b256b778b3df8!3m4!1m2!1d-87.4807192!2d41.6071885!3s0x8811de5d8d3a8d93:0xda7857834b529c08!3m4!1m2!1d-87.480857!2d41.6351993!3s0x8811dec06d65d133:0x19d2437e33f4bbe7!3m4!1m2!1d-87.4813186!2d41.6555035!3s0x8811d9350b4cdd13:0x60c50b1f3ea7af72!1m0!3e0
For some reason Google Maps refused to let me use Indianapolis Boulevard between Chicago Street and 144th Street even though it's not one-way the wrong way. Must be a bug.
Bridge is closed for construction, that's why you can't use it right now.