Got the idea for the thread after running across Heywood Banks' fairly apt summation of I-80 through Iowa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mn16d8hs04)-even though it's still better than its counterpart through Kansas, as Rik Roberts tells about here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56m2qWg5OrE)
Always been partial to the Pure Potholes memes since I'm originally from Michigan.
Twin Cities filker Nate Bucklin has a song about "Highway 12"...written before the road was converted to I-394
Favorite "Driving" Songs (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=5792.msg126426#msg126426)
Quote from the OP: "songs that specifically mention driving"
Highways mentioned in songs (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=2966.msg65706#msg65706)
Quote from the OP: "songs that mention highways"
Road and driving songs - the most comprehensive list I've seen (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=6237.msg136817#msg136817)
Roadgeek jokes (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=21936.msg2290477#msg2290477)
Any Wikipedia users here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Songs_about_Wikipedia/We_didn%27t_start_the_fire_(Roads)
Jokes about roads?
INB4 any references to chickens. :-D
Or when Johnny Carson would do those recurring satire skits based on those schlocky late night movies and their even more stereotypically schlocky ads - "How do you find us? You take the this to the that to the this to the that until you get to the . . . *fork in the road* (flips the map card and there is a big fork drawn on it)!!!"
Mike
Don't forget the Slauson Cutoff.