Believe it or not, for me this is post number 500!!!!
I figured I would celebrate the milestone by asking this: Do any states around the country have a highway numbered 500? I believe there's a county road with that number in New Jersey - other than that, I can't really think of any off hand.
Can anyone fill me in on that?
Wikipedia has articles to help search for various highway numbers (which I use regularly for the "Road Sign UNO" game). Here's the one for 500: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highways_numbered_500 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highways_numbered_500)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highways_numbered_500
At this moment, there are only eight states that have/had a Highway/Route 500: FL, GA, LA, MD, NM, NC, OH and WA, plus Puerto Rico.
And the most "important" (at least to the people that live there) in North America might be NL500 which is the Trans-Labrador Highway.
Has anybody ever determined what is the lowest number that does not have a signed route in the US?
The Wikipedia lists are notoriously incomplete.
There has also been a SC 500 (http://www.vahighways.com/scannex/route-log/sc500.htm) and a VA 500 (http://www.vahighways.com/route-log/va500-525.htm)
Quote from: cabiness42 on December 08, 2021, 10:24:16 AM
Has anybody ever determined what is the lowest number that does not have a signed route in the US?
The consensus is 1928.
Georgia's SR 500 is a vaporway - just a planned route for the "Northern Arc/Perimeter" of Atlanta, which may never happen.
Quote from: Mapmikey on December 08, 2021, 10:27:12 AM
The Wikipedia lists are notoriously incomplete.
There has also been a SC 500 (http://www.vahighways.com/scannex/route-log/sc500.htm) and a VA 500 (http://www.vahighways.com/route-log/va500-525.htm)
Sure, but they don't exist now for those of us participating in futile Operation: Get Oscar.
Quote from: jayhawkco on December 08, 2021, 10:38:44 AM
Quote from: cabiness42 on December 08, 2021, 10:24:16 AM
Has anybody ever determined what is the lowest number that does not have a signed route in the US?
The consensus is 1928.
Inquiring minds can prowl through the huge 1-2-3 Road Sign Challenge (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=17783.3700) thread to look for any gaps that had to be skipped over, or covered by routes outside the U.S.
Quote from: jayhawkco on December 08, 2021, 10:15:53 AM
And the most "important" (at least to the people that live there) in North America might be NL500 which is the Trans-Labrador Highway.
Only the older part of the TLH. The rest is NL 510.
SR 500 in CT is the Governor Street connection from I-84 and CT 2 in East Hartford that was supposed to be the southern end of the cancelled I-284. It's all of .51 miles long.
Florida has one, but unsigned. It runs from Chiefland in Levy County on the Nature Coast following US 27 ALT, then US 27, US 441, and then US 192 to Indialantic in Brevard County on the Space Coast.