No more than one conversation starter question per day.
Then we come up with the worst, least applicable, most inappropriate answer to the question.
If this were a music forum, then a conversation starter might be something like "Who in the 20th Century had the most beautiful voice?" Replies might include Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, and Yoko Ono—but certainly not Andrea Bocelli.
But of course, this is a roads forum, so the conversation starter should be road-related.
I know it's not quite tomorrow yet, but I'll get July 18 started off early with the first question. Remember, I'm only looking for bad answers!
Q: What stretch of Interstate could be removed from the system, and hardly anyone would miss it?
I-405 and the San Diego Freeway should converted to a surface boulevard with ample multi-use pedestrian features.
The entirety of the Capital Beltway around DC. DC area traffic is bad enough with it. Pure hell without it. :popcorn:
Interstate 95 was only finished a few years ago, so that means that clearly nobody would miss it if it were gone.
Interstate 99, because then everything written into highway law becomes null-and-void and then we reach absolute legislative chaos and we descend into anarchy, the route logs are burned ritually as sacrifices to the horrors of state representation, and the nation suffers from a constitutional crisis and is then swiftly taken over by the Decepticons in their quest for more Energon cubes...uh...or, maybe just more pork-and-beans and the number accidently winds up in California.
The piece of I-70 between where it turns south to Hancock MD and the ramps to the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
The Mobile Tunnel and bay bridge on I-10 in Alabama are outdated and too unsafe. They have to go.
here's my attempt at stirring things up:
My great-great-grandfather, a haberdasher in Hartford, would have answered: New England Interstate 2, one of the main roads through that fine city. He really hated NE2 and would talk at length about how unpleasant NE2 is -- how an encounter with NE2 would always be the worst part of one's day. He used quite profane language when speaking of NE2, sometimes of actions that were, anatomically speaking, quite infeasible.
His most fondly remembered day, even outshining his wedding day and the birth of his son (different days, to be clear), was that day in 1927 when the highway department started mounting US 5 markers along the route. Finally, humanity's long nightmare was coming to an end. Finally, NE2 was gone.
Quote from: kurumi on July 18, 2025, 01:30:15 AMMy great-great-grandfather, a haberdasher in Hartford
Is that where hurricanes hardly ever happen?
Quote from: kurumi on July 18, 2025, 01:30:15 AMMy great-great-grandfather ... really hated NE2 and would talk at length about how unpleasant NE2 is -- how an encounter with NE2 would always be the worst part of one's day. He used quite profane language when speaking of NE2 ...
I can only imagine what he might have to say about what we commonly refer to as a SPUI.
Quote from: kurumi on July 18, 2025, 01:30:15 AM... actions that were, anatomically speaking, quite infeasible ... mounting US 5 markers ...
You're right, that is not anatomically feasible.
Quote from: kurumi on July 18, 2025, 01:30:15 AMMy great-great-grandfather, a haberdasher in Hartford
Quote from: pderocco on July 18, 2025, 02:23:32 AMIs that where hurricanes hardly ever happen?
And where's that soggy plain?
Quote from: kphoger on July 17, 2025, 10:50:32 PMJuly 18
Q: What stretch of Interstate could be removed from the system, and hardly anyone would miss it?
My own suggestion: I-90/94 in Chicago, between the Skyway and Mayfair, is basically duplicated by the L, so it can be removed. Take the unused maintenance funds and funnel them into CTA instead.
There is no need for Interstate 90 west of Chicago.
Quote from: Mav94 on July 18, 2025, 11:41:10 AMThere is no need for Interstate 90 west of Chicago.
US-20 will suffice to Rockford. West of Tomah, meh.
I-80 should be removed in Pennsylvania because it doesn't have any large cities that it serves.
Quote from: kphoger on July 17, 2025, 10:50:32 PMI know it's not quite tomorrow yet, but I'll get July 18 started off early with the first question. Remember, I'm only looking for bad answers!
Q: What stretch of Interstate could be removed from the system, and hardly anyone would miss it?
The I-76 Surekill Expressway.
The triple cantilever section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Everyone who lives in the area wants the expressway gone, and nobody in their right mind uses it. There's too much traffic.
Decommissioning US routes is sensible and shows good DOT judgment.
The correct answer is any. Removing from the system doesn't mean anything except repairs don't get funded.
Quote from: NE2 on July 18, 2025, 07:50:52 PMThe correct answer
That's great and all, but I'm looking for the worst possible answer.
Quote from: kphoger on July 17, 2025, 10:50:32 PMQ: What stretch of Interstate could be removed from the system, and hardly anyone would miss it?
I-70 between Denver and Silverthorne. Loveland Pass and US-40 can suffice. Both are very easy to drive in bad weather, sometimes they even attempt to plow the snow!
Quote from: kphoger on July 18, 2025, 09:50:34 AMMy own suggestion: I-90/94 in Chicago, between the Skyway and Mayfair, is basically duplicated by the L, so it can be removed. Take the unused maintenance funds and funnel them into CTA instead.
It also has bypass options using I-80 and I-294 or I-355.
My answer: I-80/I-94 between IL 394 and the interchange with the Toll Road. Everyone can just use the Skyway and Toll Road, IN 912, and/or one of the paralleling US routes. No one seems to have any trouble cutting over to I-65 from I-57 either.
Quote from: kphoger on July 18, 2025, 08:54:20 PMQuote from: NE2 on July 18, 2025, 07:50:52 PMThe correct answer
That's great and all, but I'm looking for the worst possible answer.
I would argue the NE2 is accurate though, now that I think about it. There's a difference between removing something from the system and blowing up the road. I think basically everyone here is giving answers for the latter.
Nuking a road from orbit probably would not be ideal for maintenance.
I've inadvertently gotten in trouble for this before (now I'm 100% at fault). The worst possible answer is:
QuoteThe portion of I-70 that goes to Baltimore.
I-695 southeast of Baltimore. (Too soon?)
I dunno if it's open to just anyone to ask a daily question, but if so, here's one for July 19:
Instead of a control city, it would make navigation easier if every guide sign had ________.
A QR code to the town's Wikipedia article
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 19, 2025, 02:41:36 AMI dunno if it's open to just anyone to ask a daily question, but if so, here's one for July 19:
Instead of a control city, it would make navigation easier if every guide sign had ________.
Mayor's names.
Quote from: jeffandnicole on July 19, 2025, 04:30:24 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on July 19, 2025, 02:41:36 AMI dunno if it's open to just anyone to ask a daily question, but if so, here's one for July 19:
Instead of a control city, it would make navigation easier if every guide sign had ________.
Mayor's names.
The mayors of the towns the roads lead to, or just anyone who has been a mayor somewhere?
Limón
Distance to I-86.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 19, 2025, 02:41:36 AMInstead of a control city, it would make navigation easier if every guide sign had ________.
Not existed. Everyone's using their phones or GPS, why bother spending the money to maintain guide signs?
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 19, 2025, 02:41:36 AMI dunno if it's open to just anyone to ask a daily question, but if so, here's one for July 19:
Instead of a control city, it would make navigation easier if every guide sign had ________.
Rhyming cockney slang.
A "you are here" map like the ones often found in rest areas.
Zip codes.
The local High School sport mascots/nicknames
Quote from: formulanone on July 19, 2025, 09:23:34 AMThe local High School sport mascots/nicknames
There are a number of intersections in Oklahoma where you'd end up with
← Bulldogs
Bulldogs →
On the other hand..."US-69/US-75 north, Wampus Cats".
Toss up between the nearest private landing strip or nearest residential subdivision (name).
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 19, 2025, 09:35:57 AMQuote from: formulanone on July 19, 2025, 09:23:34 AMThe local High School sport mascots/nicknames
There are a number of intersections in Oklahoma where you'd end up with
← Bulldogs
Bulldogs →
On the other hand..."US-69/US-75 north, Wampus Cats".
Wampus Cats...that's a new one.
One that stuck with me for years was New Braunfels H.S. Unicorns.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 19, 2025, 02:41:36 AMI dunno if it's open to just anyone to ask a daily question, but if so, here's one for July 19:
Instead of a control city, it would make navigation easier if every guide sign had ________.
A 5-second tiktok video (audio at max volume), of some influencer doing a selfie at the destination
Quote from: Dirt Roads on July 18, 2025, 10:27:55 PMI've inadvertently gotten in trouble for this before (now I'm 100% at fault). The worst possible answer is:
QuoteThe portion of I-70 that goes to Baltimore.
Raises an interesting question,
can you remove something that doesn't exist?
I-70 to Baltimore does not exist, but cannot be removed, and therefore exists. Schrodinger's Highway.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 19, 2025, 02:41:36 AMJuly 19:
Instead of a control city, it would make navigation easier if every guide sign had ________.
The same, but in braille.
Quote from: jlam on July 19, 2025, 02:46:21 AMA QR code
Ooooooohhhhhhhh....... Can't really beat that one.
A QR code to an image of a guide sign. (The correct guide sign, mind you, not some random one from elsewhere.)
Cardinal directions and only cardinal directions (well, exit numbers would still be there). Just have to memorize the whole highway system.
Ad space for local businesses.
Quote from: kphoger on July 19, 2025, 02:46:54 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on July 19, 2025, 02:41:36 AMJuly 19:
Instead of a control city, it would make navigation easier if every guide sign had ________.
The same, but in braille.
Quote from: jlam on July 19, 2025, 02:46:21 AMA QR code
Ooooooohhhhhhhh....... Can't really beat that one.
A QR code to an image of a guide sign. (The correct guide sign, mind you, not some random one from elsewhere.)
Download the app to read this BGS-QR code!Tolls are cashless, payment only accepted with our
TollKeen app. The only payment accepted is
Qash_it, which has a 5% surcharge if you link it to a credit card. If you choose to park at our
Sir Vice Arias, make sure to download the
ParKingdom app, which accepts
Trypcoin for convenience, though a 4.99% surcharge applies (4.25% if part of our
Big Sur Network of automation-fee collection clubs).
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 18, 2025, 10:20:15 PMNuking a road from orbit probably would not be ideal for maintenance.
But it's the only way to be sure.
Quote from: kkt on July 19, 2025, 08:25:11 PMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on July 18, 2025, 10:20:15 PMNuking a road from orbit probably would not be ideal for maintenance.
But it's the only way to be sure.
I-405 would probably just stow away onto the Sulaco...
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 19, 2025, 02:41:36 AMJuly 19:
Instead of a control city, it would make navigation easier if every guide sign had ________.
... spoken destinations over loudspeaker, kind of like a train station. Instead of "the Wolverine to Detroit will be departing on track 9, with service to Hammond, Kalamazoo, Jackson, Ann Arbor, and intermediate stops"—it would be more like this:
"Interstate 70 eastbound to Topeka exits to the right at Exit 95A, continuing to Kansas City, Columbia, Wentzville, Saint Louis, Indianapolis, Columbus, Wheeling, Washington (Pennsylvania), New Stanton, Breezewood, Hancock, Hagerstown, Washington (D.C.), and intermediate cities. Interstate 70 westbound to Hays will exit to the right in one quarter-mile at Exit 95B, continuing to Limon, Denver, Grand Junction, and Interstate 15, with connecting service to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Diego."
All you need to do is slow down and roll down your window.
other CrAIg cities
Quote from: kphoger on July 19, 2025, 08:35:31 PMAll you need to do is slow down and roll down your window.
"Please stand clear of the doors".
July 20:
Why do Interstate and US numbered routes use even numbers to denote east-west routes and odd numbers to denote north-south routes and not the other way around?
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 20, 2025, 02:23:40 AMJuly 20:
Why do Interstate and US numbered routes use even numbers to denote east-west routes and odd numbers to denote north-south routes and not the other way around?
At the time the system was invented, there were more known odd numbers than even numbers. Since the country was wider left-right than up-down, they would need more numbers to fill in the numerous roads that would be built.
The average American is positively terrified of prime numbers. Sure, they can handle 15 minutes or so of driving on US 17 or I-89, but hours, or even days? Good heavens, no. Prime numbers are easily avoidable in the urban agglomerations to the east, but when road tripping west, there can often be no other choices. They can be heading down the same road for hours on end. Rather than risk motorists getting stuck on unsettling odd primes such as I-5 or US 67 whilst heading west, they made all E-W routes even. Now they can stick to good ol' I-10 or US 66.
Numbering the freeways heading north through California as I-5 and US 101 rather than nice round numbers like I-1 or I-9 and US 105 was a ruse by Big California to get people to take CA 1.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 20, 2025, 02:23:40 AMJuly 20:
Why do Interstate and US numbered routes use even numbers to denote east-west routes and odd numbers to denote north-south routes and not the other way around?
US history and Manifest Destiny involved westward expansion. So anyone who wanted to go north–south was "odd."
Quote from: jlam on July 20, 2025, 11:26:37 AMThe average American is positively terrified of prime numbers. Sure, they can handle 15 minutes or so of driving on US 17 or I-89, but hours, or even days? Good heavens, no. Prime numbers are easily avoidable in the urban agglomerations to the east, but when road tripping west, there can often be no other choices. They can be heading down the same road for hours on end. Rather than risk motorists getting stuck on unsettling odd primes such as I-5 or US 67 whilst heading west, they made all E-W routes even. Now they can stick to good ol' I-10 or US 66.
Numbering the freeways heading north through California as I-5 and US 101 rather than nice round numbers like I-1 or I-9 and US 105 was a ruse by Big California to get people to take CA 1.
Wouldn't the fact that the US is wider than it is tall incentivize the opposite by making it easier to avoid designating prime numbers period? After all, there is no even 2di between I-44 and I-64.
Originally, AASHO planned to make all east-west routes be Seven, but their secretary made a spelling error.
It was a Congressional mandate from Bud Shuster's grandfather.
The original (1925) plan was to follow the unit circle, where east (0) and west (π) would be real numbers (positive and negative), and north and south would be imaginary. The system could then accommodate diagonal routes easily using complex numbers.
However, a boat crossing Lake Michigan with the related documents was sacked by pirates and sunk.
Quote from: jeffandnicole on July 20, 2025, 09:25:10 AMAt the time the system was invented, there were more known odd numbers than even numbers. Since the country was wider left-right than up-down, they would need more numbers to fill in the numerous roads that would be built.
Were you channeling the dad from
Calvin and Hobbes when you wrote this?
Quote from: kurumi on July 20, 2025, 11:00:56 PMThe original (1925) plan was to follow the unit circle, where east (0) and west (π) would be real numbers (positive and negative), and north and south would be imaginary. The system could then accommodate diagonal routes easily using complex numbers.
However, a boat crossing Lake Michigan with the related documents was sacked by pirates and sunk.
Pastafarians were good to us like that, especially for those of us who forgot calculus rather quickly.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 19, 2025, 02:41:36 AMI dunno if it's open to just anyone to ask a daily question, but if so, here's one for July 19:
Instead of a control city, it would make navigation easier if every guide sign had ________.
A list of state sports championships won by the local high schools.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 20, 2025, 11:36:41 PMWere you channeling the dad from Calvin and Hobbes when you wrote this?
Did you have his explanation of bridge weight limits in mind when you wrote this?
July 21:
With the advent of self-driving cars, __________ will no longer be needed.
Quote from: kphoger on July 21, 2025, 09:21:59 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on July 20, 2025, 11:36:41 PMWere you channeling the dad from Calvin and Hobbes when you wrote this?
Did you have his explanation of bridge weight limits in mind when you wrote this?
Was that the one where the punchline was the mom yelling "If you don't know the answer, just tell him that!"
Quote from: kphoger on July 21, 2025, 09:23:25 AMWith the advent of self-driving cars, __________ will no longer be needed.
search and rescue crews on Dog Valley Road
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 21, 2025, 09:33:06 AMWas that the one where the punchline was the mom yelling "If you don't know the answer, just tell him that!"
By the way, Watterson modeled the dad in the comic strip after his own dad in real life.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F_ua8ycqfc4ok%2FSQL8MATH8KI%2FAAAAAAAAA94%2F4HbMFHlHidA%2Fs1600%2FCalvin%2Band%2BHobbes.gif&hash=9df091cd2ee35633480be553e7d9587d922a8411)
Quote from: kphoger on July 21, 2025, 09:23:25 AMJuly 21:
With the advent of self-driving cars, __________ will no longer be needed.
graphing hooks
Quote from: Mav94 on July 21, 2025, 07:37:56 AMA list of state sports championships won by the local high schools.
Ouch! NCDOT has been posting National Championship signs for the various state colleges and universities for the past 6 or 7 years.
Quote from: kphoger on July 21, 2025, 09:23:25 AMJuly 21:
With the advent of self-driving cars, __________ will no longer be needed.
car insurance (except for theft, vandalism, and other non-road-related damages)
Quote from: kphoger on July 21, 2025, 09:23:25 AMJuly 21:
With the advent of self-driving cars, __________ will no longer be needed.
People
Quote from: kphoger on July 21, 2025, 09:23:25 AMJuly 21:
With the advent of self-driving cars, __________ will no longer be needed.
Self-caring drivers.
Quote from: kphoger on July 21, 2025, 09:23:25 AMJuly 21:
With the advent of self-driving cars, __________ will no longer be needed.
Golf tees.
Why? Because you place your balls on them when you're driving.
:bigass:
Quote from: kphoger on July 18, 2025, 08:54:20 PMQuote from: NE2 on July 18, 2025, 07:50:52 PMThe correct answer
That's great and all, but I'm looking for the worst possible answer.
Roundabouts.
Quote from: kphoger on July 17, 2025, 10:50:32 PMJuly 18
Q: What stretch of Interstate could be removed from the system, and hardly anyone would miss it?
Quote from: kphoger on July 18, 2025, 08:54:20 PMI'm looking for the worst possible answer.
Quote from: hbelkins on July 21, 2025, 02:35:56 PMRoundabouts.
Please explain.
Quote from: Mav94 on July 21, 2025, 11:51:31 AMQuote from: kphoger on July 21, 2025, 09:23:25 AMJuly 21:
With the advent of self-driving cars, __________ will no longer be needed.
Self-caring drivers.
I feel sucker-punched.
Quote from: kphoger on July 21, 2025, 09:23:25 AMJuly 21:
With the advent of self-driving cars, __________ will no longer be needed.
Arms.
Rideable guide dogs.
Common sense
Road signs
Quote from: bassoon1986 on July 21, 2025, 09:25:55 PMRoad signs
But that's actually an idea that has gotten traction on the forum in the past. Not totally unthinkable.
July 22:
Why should you have a license plate on your car?
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 22, 2025, 03:15:34 AMJuly 22:
Why should you have a license plate on your car?
As a status symbol. Lower numbers are higher in the driver hierarchy.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 22, 2025, 03:15:34 AMJuly 22:
Why should you have a license plate on your car?
So blind motorists can feel the raised characters and realize it's a car.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 22, 2025, 03:15:34 AMJuly 22:
Why should you have a license plate on your car?
So my wife can play her game of seeing how many state license plates she sees while on vacation.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 22, 2025, 03:15:34 AMJuly 22:
Why should you have a license plate on your car?
So that if you drive a Mazda, you'll look like you're endorsing Buc-ee's.
(https://preview.redd.it/front-plate-makes-the-mx5-look-like-a-rabbit-lol-v0-d18clk0y2tre1.png?auto=webp&s=ee2471cc94b1464f67409dd7fc2e7ada1e1c5288)
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 22, 2025, 03:15:34 AMJuly 22:
Why should you have a license plate on your car?
because it bips
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 22, 2025, 03:15:34 AMJuly 22:
Why should you have a license plate on your car?
Because it makes people feel like their annual registration fee isn't a complete waste of money.
Because it gives prisoners something to do while serving time.
Bumper protection.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 22, 2025, 03:15:34 AMJuly 22:
Why should you have a license plate on your car?
To go with your license fork and your license knife.
Quote from: vdeane on July 22, 2025, 12:44:32 PMyour license fork and your license knife
Kansas does not issue those.
Quote from: kphoger on July 22, 2025, 12:48:30 PMQuote from: vdeane on July 22, 2025, 12:44:32 PMyour license fork and your license knife
Kansas does not issue those.
License trough and license spork?
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 22, 2025, 03:15:34 AMJuly 22:
Why should you have a license plate on your car?
Because us license plate collectors have to get them from somewhere.
Quote from: formulanone on July 22, 2025, 01:12:23 PMLicense trough and license spork?
No, we don't have to register our sporks with the government around here. One of the perks of living in a red state, I guess.
So I can makes messages like the guy from Virginia who had "EAT THE KIDS FIRST."
July 23:
If you could change one pedestrian-related traffic law, what would it be?
Quote from: kphoger on July 23, 2025, 11:19:54 AMJuly 23:
If you could change one pedestrian-related traffic law, what would it be?
Like cars, trains must yield to pedestrians
Quote from: kphoger on July 23, 2025, 11:19:54 AMJuly 23:
If you could change one pedestrian-related traffic law, what would it be?
Any car preceded by a goat has right of way at all zebra crossings, unless the pedestrian has a zebra.
Quote from: kphoger on July 23, 2025, 11:19:54 AMJuly 23:
If you could change one pedestrian-related traffic law, what would it be?
OK, here's mine.
Pedestrians are only allowed on sidewalks. If a street does not have a sidewalk, then no pedestrians are allowed on that street.
All of the roads, including freeways, are unmarked crosswalks.
Cars yielding to pedestrians is not enough. They must unconditionally surrender.
Quote from: kphoger on July 23, 2025, 11:19:54 AMJuly 23:
If you could change one pedestrian-related traffic law, what would it be?
Any pedestrian actively engaged in crossing a street must
both display flashing lights
and sound an audible siren.
~ or ~
Wheelchairs now count as vehicular traffic, not pedestrian traffic.
Quote from: kphoger on July 23, 2025, 11:19:54 AMJuly 23:
If you could change one pedestrian-related traffic law, what would it be?
Pedestrian traffic is banned in all outdoor places, other than inside places like stadiums or parks or public swimming pools, except insofar as walking is necessary to get from one's front door to a car (whether your own, a taxi/Uber/Lyft vehicle, a friend giving you a ride, whatever) at the closest point on a road to one's front door. If that complicates taking public transit like a bus because the nearest bus stop requires one to walk, too bad—call a cab and take a cab to the bus stop.
(I recognize kernals12 is likely to say I breached the rules of the thread because he would consider this the best possible answer.)
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 23, 2025, 12:52:25 PMPedestrian traffic is banned in all outdoor places, other than inside places
That's already in the Alanland Vehicle Code.
Pedestrians are not allowed.
A crosswalk can be designated anywhere along any road by placing a fluorescent yellow traffic cone within 18 inches of the roadway.
~ or ~
Crossing an intersection diagonally is the only permitted direction to cross. (This one just keeps getting more ridiculous, the more I think about it.)
At every intersection/crosswalk/whatever, right of way is determined by a best of 3 rock-paper-scissors.
Pedestrian bridges are now required to be 42 feet above the roadway and only 2 feet wide. Let them experience vertigo!
Pedestrians may opt to be walked by dogs, if they wish. However, their owners must clean up after them.
Every pedestrian crossing should have a HAWK signal.
Quote from: kphoger on July 23, 2025, 12:48:15 PMAny pedestrian actively engaged in crossing a street must both display flashing lights and sound an audible siren.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 23, 2025, 03:29:11 PMEvery pedestrian crossing should have a HAWK signal.
These can be combined into one statute.
Any pedestrian actively engaged in crossing a street must
both display a flashing HAWK signal
and sound an audible siren.
Hopefully it's fair game to go back to previous days.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 19, 2025, 02:41:36 AMInstead of a control city, it would make navigation easier if every guide sign had ________.
Line-by-line directions to "Other Beach Cities".
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 20, 2025, 02:23:40 AMJuly 20:
Why do Interstate and US numbered routes use even numbers to denote east-west routes and odd numbers to denote north-south routes and not the other way around?
:hmmm:
Quote from: kphoger on July 23, 2025, 11:19:54 AMJuly 23:
If you could change one pedestrian-related traffic law, what would it be?
This one (https://maps.app.goo.gl/i9GPM5UyKV4cxX8n6) (oh wait...)
Quote from: Big John on July 23, 2025, 12:12:25 PMAll of the roads, including freeways, are unmarked crosswalks.
What would that change, though? :sombrero:
Quote from: kphoger on July 23, 2025, 03:47:09 PMQuote from: kphoger on July 23, 2025, 12:48:15 PMAny pedestrian actively engaged in crossing a street must both display flashing lights and sound an audible siren.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 23, 2025, 03:29:11 PMEvery pedestrian crossing should have a HAWK signal.
These can be combined into one statute.
Any pedestrian actively engaged in crossing a street must both display a flashing HAWK signal and sound an audible siren.
The signal from the HAWK would be a loud screech from the hawks that all pedestrians would be required to keep as pets and carry with them when walking. The hawk would wear a flashing beacon on its head.
You mean flashing bacon. Every seen a pig in a trenchcoat?
Quote from: webny99 on July 23, 2025, 05:18:20 PMHopefully it's fair game to go back to previous days.
Absolutely!
Quote from: vdeane on July 23, 2025, 07:42:31 PMThe hawk would wear a flashing beacon on its head.
Does this qualify as animal cruelty?
Quote from: NE2 on July 23, 2025, 08:06:33 PMYou mean flashing bacon. Every seen a pig in a trenchcoat?
Coming from you, I assume it's referring to police officers..?
July 24:
Assuming two advance guide signs for exits before the exit direction sign, what is the appropriate distance spread?
(For clarity, I'm referring to these (https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part2/fig2e_01_longdesc.htm). Assuming two "B" signs posted in advance of every "A" sign, what distances should those two be posted at? Let's also assume that it's not an exit-dense stretch of highway, so just think of normal scenarios.)
My suggestion:
10 miles : advance 1
¼ mile : advance 2
gore : exit
The appropriate distance to post a road sign from a junction has to do with the speed of the roadway it is displayed next to. Higher-speed roads have to have signage posted further in advance so that drivers have more time to prepare for the exit.
Therefore, speed sensors should be used to determine the prevailing speed of the road. During a traffic jam, after all, you might only be going a few miles an hour so the sign can be right next to the exit. Late at night, you might have someone who had a few too many beers at Top Golf going 157 mph down the road, so the same sign would need to be a lot further away for that person to read it (as we all know that obeying warning signs is important to the inebriated, which is why they pass laws requiring it whenever they are elected to high office). The signs should be placed on a track, so a motor can automatically move them to the appropriate distance as needed.
This is an example of an "intelligent transportation system" (ITS).
If the exit is in Oklahoma, the signs should be placed just in advance of the state line before entering Oklahoma. If the exit is not in Oklahoma, the signs should be in Oklahoma but only if the exit is on an interstate that doesn't go through Oklahoma.
One and two Planck lengths respectively.
Signs placed after the exit.: 1 mile back, 2 miles back.
Quote from: kphoger on July 24, 2025, 09:48:19 AMAssuming two advance guide signs for exits before the exit direction sign, what is the appropriate distance spread?
Quote from: Big John on July 24, 2025, 11:25:01 AMSigns placed after the exit.: 1 mile back, 2 miles back.
Try again.
Quote from: kphoger on July 24, 2025, 11:31:57 AMQuote from: kphoger on July 24, 2025, 09:48:19 AMAssuming two advance guide signs for exits before the exit direction sign, what is the appropriate distance spread?
Quote from: Big John on July 24, 2025, 11:25:01 AMSigns placed after the exit.: 1 mile back, 2 miles back.
Try again.
The advance signage is placed after the exit you just passed so you can decide whether or not it's worth backing up for.
Quote from: kphoger on July 24, 2025, 09:48:19 AMJuly 24:
Assuming two advance guide signs for exits before the exit direction sign, what is the appropriate distance spread?
(For clarity, I'm referring to these (https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part2/fig2e_01_longdesc.htm). Assuming two "B" signs posted in advance of every "A" sign, what distances should those two be posted at? Let's also assume that it's not an exit-dense stretch of highway, so just think of normal scenarios.)
Put them on the 10s. Specifically, 10 inches, 10 feet, and 10 miles.
Quote from: kphoger on July 24, 2025, 09:40:07 AMQuoteThe hawk would wear a flashing beacon on its head.
Does this qualify as animal cruelty?
I would think it would be similar to making a dog wear antlers on Christmas.
To help with trip planning purposes, the first sign for your exit should be posted on the onramp on which you initially enter the freeway.
Then there shouldn't even be a 2nd sign: we need to stop compensating for inattentive drivers who miss the first sign. Pay attention, bozo!
Quote from: kphoger on July 24, 2025, 09:48:19 AMJuly 24:
Assuming two advance guide signs for exits before the exit direction sign, what is the appropriate distance spread?
The first one should be mayo. The second should be a squirt of spicy mustard.
July 25th
In 1973, why did the US government mandate that speed limits be limited to 55 MPH?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 25, 2025, 12:37:12 AMJuly 25th
In 1973, why did the US government mandate that speed limits be limited to 55 MPH?
Bill and Ted wanted to make sure Sammy Hagar would succeed. Literally 1984.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 25, 2025, 12:37:12 AMJuly 25th
In 1973, why did the US government mandate that speed limits be limited to 55 MPH?
That was the top speed of a Volkswagen van back in the day.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 25, 2025, 12:37:12 AMJuly 25th
In 1973, why did the US government mandate that speed limits be limited to 55 MPH?
So "double nickel" could become common parlance.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 25, 2025, 12:37:12 AMJuly 25th
In 1973, why did the US government mandate that speed limits be limited to 55 MPH?
In an effort to reduce signs on the road, state troopers would now display the speed limit on their hands.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 25, 2025, 12:37:12 AMJuly 25th
In 1973, why did the US government mandate that speed limits be limited to 55 MPH?
Government officials didn't like the idea of a 60-mph speed limit because they felt that using a speed limit based on a mile a minute made it too easy for some people to calculate their arrival times, while also feeling that using 60 mph would be unfair to people who are unable to perform such basic second-grade-level math.
It was a distraction from Watergate.
They only had to design one speed limit sign for highway use. This saved a ton of money on manufacturing costs, and those savings ultimately prevented the US economy from completely falling apart during the oil crisis.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 25, 2025, 12:37:12 AMIn 1973, why did the US government mandate that speed limits be limited to 55 MPH?
They figured it would be easy to remember because that was where the yellow marker on everyone's speedometer was.
It was a desperate attempt to halt the ongoing disintegration of the traditional nuclear family by forcing them to have more bonding time on family road trips.
Quote from: kphoger on July 25, 2025, 09:45:53 AMThey only had to design one speed limit sign for highway use. This saved a ton of money on manufacturing costs, and those savings ultimately prevented the US economy from completely falling apart during the oil crisis.
And they also only had to produce one numeral.
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 25, 2025, 08:33:37 AMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on July 25, 2025, 12:37:12 AMJuly 25th
In 1973, why did the US government mandate that speed limits be limited to 55 MPH?
Government officials didn't like the idea of a 60-mph speed limit because they felt that using a speed limit based on a mile a minute made it too easy for some people to calculate their arrival times, while also feeling that using 60 mph would be unfair to people who are unable to perform such basic second-grade-level math.
And backed heavily by the auto industry, who didn't want people to start realizing that speedometers aren't that accurate to begin with.
Quote from: GaryV on July 25, 2025, 06:36:03 AMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on July 25, 2025, 12:37:12 AMJuly 25th
In 1973, why did the US government mandate that speed limits be limited to 55 MPH?
So "double nickel" could become common parlance.
55 miles an hour led to increased nickel production; after all, if it worked for Alka-Seltzer (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/double-bubble/), it could work for the US Mint. Unfortunately, the internal losses created by ramped-up production of additional five-cent pieces, the economy led to stagflation. To combat this, stag parties were permitted in 49 states and this led to more inflatable animal production, which led to qualitative easing, but like all economic innovations, zoological parks saw a small decrease in attendance until the portable electric player was introduced in 1978.
Since Nixon had previously set it to 50 by executive order, his popularity was boosted by raising it to 55.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 25, 2025, 12:37:12 AMJuly 25th
In 1973, why did the US government mandate that speed limits be limited to 55 MPH?
That was the 85th percentile.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 25, 2025, 12:37:12 AMJuly 25th
In 1973, why did the US government mandate that speed limits be limited to 55 MPH?
An influential congressmen thought the number was nifty.
Congress thought it was a pay raise to $55,000 aper year in 1973.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 25, 2025, 12:37:12 AMJuly 25th
In 1973, why did the US government mandate that speed limits be limited to 55 MPH?
They realized that 88 was sufficient to support time-traveling Delorians, but they got confused about the units.
July 26th: why are tolls more common in the Northeast than in other parts of the country?
The jet stream pushes them that direction.
To help fund the endowments for Ivy League schools.
To pay for ESPN's bias towards the teams there.
More bridge trolls live in the Northeast and thus have to be regularly paid off.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 26, 2025, 11:14:53 AMJuly 26th: why are tolls more common in the Northeast than in other parts of the country?
In order to stay awake during long hours in the booth, toll collectors historically drank a lot of coffee. Northeastern politicians supported more toll booths to increase the amount of coffee sold, because every last one of them was in the pocket of Dunkin'.
July 27th: why are all road signs in Québec only in French?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 26, 2025, 11:14:53 AMJuly 26th: why are tolls more common in the Northeast than in other parts of the country?
Trump promised the Rio Grande Valley that Mexico would pay for I-69, so Mexico added a bunch of tolls on their side to raise the money.
(You didn't say which country...)
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 27, 2025, 04:12:51 AMJuly 27th: why are all road signs in Québec only in French?
Years ago they confused bilingual with another bi- word, and said, "Mais, non!"
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 27, 2025, 04:12:51 AMJuly 27th: why are all road signs in Québec only in French?
Because the Danish sign creator was sacked.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 27, 2025, 04:12:51 AMJuly 27th: why are all road signs in Québec only in French?
Je ne sais pas putain. C'est la vie, idiot.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 27, 2025, 04:12:51 AMJuly 27th: why are all road signs in Québec only in French?
Quote from: thspfc on July 27, 2025, 08:22:41 AMJe ne sais pas poutine. C'est la vie, idiot.
FTFY. In West Virginia, we put gravy over most everything. Maybe that why we love this Québécoi favourite?
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 27, 2025, 04:12:51 AMJuly 27th: why are all road signs in Québec only in French?
Coordinated bombings of all the bilingual signs.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 27, 2025, 04:12:51 AMJuly 27th: why are all road signs in Québec only in French?
Because all road signs in France are in Québecois.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 27, 2025, 04:12:51 AMJuly 27th: why are all road signs in Québec only in French?
Because you can't make poutine with English fries.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 27, 2025, 04:12:51 AMJuly 27th: why are all road signs in Québec only in French?
Perpetually hurt feelings.
28 JUL 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/MUTCD_W6-3.svg/250px-MUTCD_W6-3.svg.png)
Instructions for Dance Dance Revolution.
Jump up and dive to the left.
Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension
It replaced the text-based Elevators sign in the 1973 MUTCD, due to the elevator attendant strike during the previous summer. President Nixon fired all of the go-slow employees of Federal Lift Attendants but this event was mostly lost to history after other sandals took place within the FLA.
Sources
Brambilla, Mona. 1974. "Anthology of Sideways Square Signage", Misty Gorilla Publishing 741-742
Fittipaldi, Peter. 1973 "F.L.A. Won't Sway Nor Have Its Buttons Pushed", Weston Bee-Star-Picayune 5-6
Hulme, Gavin. 1978 "Massive Compendium of Indoor Signage 1777-1977", Shadow Printing Press Vol. DN, 3-4
Quote from: kphoger on July 28, 2025, 09:28:38 AM28 JUL 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/MUTCD_W6-3.svg/250px-MUTCD_W6-3.svg.png)
Someone is flicking the switch to the overhead lighting up and down.
Quote from: kphoger on July 28, 2025, 09:28:38 AM28 JUL 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/MUTCD_W6-3.svg/250px-MUTCD_W6-3.svg.png)
Men perform to the right. Women perform to the left.
Quote from: kphoger on July 28, 2025, 09:28:38 AM28 JUL 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/MUTCD_W6-3.svg/250px-MUTCD_W6-3.svg.png)
Bouncy house ahead.
DIP AHEAD
~ or ~
TALL VEHICLES USE RIGHT LANE
SHORT VEHICLES USE LEFT LANE
Quote from: kphoger on July 28, 2025, 09:28:38 AM28 JUL 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/MUTCD_W6-3.svg/250px-MUTCD_W6-3.svg.png)
Quote from: I-55 on July 28, 2025, 10:40:47 AMPennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension
This thread is for the worst possible answer, not the actual answer :sombrero:
Quote from: kphoger on July 28, 2025, 09:28:38 AM28 JUL 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/MUTCD_W6-3.svg/250px-MUTCD_W6-3.svg.png)
Warning: You are about to experience significant shear forces ahead.
Quote from: cockroachking on July 28, 2025, 07:39:15 PMQuote from: kphoger on July 28, 2025, 09:28:38 AM28 JUL 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/MUTCD_W6-3.svg/250px-MUTCD_W6-3.svg.png)
Warning: You are about to experience significant shear forces ahead.
Elevator ahead.
MOVING WALKWAY
WARNING: earthquake fault ahead!
Quote from: kphoger on July 28, 2025, 09:28:38 AM28 JUL 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/MUTCD_W6-3.svg/250px-MUTCD_W6-3.svg.png)
Magnetic repulsion ahead.
7/29
Why was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 29, 2025, 01:12:34 AM7/29
Why was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
It smoked marijuana on live TV.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 29, 2025, 01:12:34 AM7/29
Why was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
Suzanne Somers threatened to sue.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 29, 2025, 01:12:34 AM7/29
Why was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
Because I was in the way. :bigass:
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 29, 2025, 01:12:34 AMWhy was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
The state didn't have enough money to obtain the necessary permits from the mob.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 29, 2025, 01:12:34 AMWhy was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
The potential of mass civil disorder from New Jerseyans needing to learn a new answer to the question, "what exit?"
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 29, 2025, 01:12:34 AM7/29
Why was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
Because some-r-set and some are not. NJ was not.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 29, 2025, 01:12:34 AM7/29
Why was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
Wall Street bankers wanted agents from the SEC to get lost on the way to New York from DC.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 29, 2025, 01:12:34 AM7/29
Why was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
Carmine (and later Johnny Sack and Phil) leaned on "some friends of ours" at NJDOT to prevent Tony having an easier drive to Philly, and thus force him to continue working with Brooklyn.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 29, 2025, 01:12:34 AM7/29
Why was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
Philly doesn't like NYC. NYC doesn't know Philly exists. Best to keep them as separated as possible.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 29, 2025, 01:12:34 AM7/29
Why was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
They had to take steps to pacify the people who angrily insist that "the Jersey Turnpike
is I-95!"
Quote from: jmacswimmer on July 29, 2025, 08:22:58 AMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on July 29, 2025, 01:12:34 AM7/29
Why was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
Carmine (and later Johnny Sack and Phil) leaned on "some friends of ours" at NJDOT to prevent Tony having an easier drive to Philly, and thus force him to continue working with Brooklyn.
Follow the money...General Motors was due to announce the Buick Regal Somerset and didn't want the bad press, after the fiasco between their Inline-4 and Interstate 4 had DOHC'ed their credibility. Insiders call it
The Buick I-Job. The Quad 4 was released a few years afterward, due to an acrimonious fight in Night Court with Quad Cities and Marvel Comics.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 29, 2025, 01:12:34 AM7/29
Why was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
The state of New Jersey had already developed a bad reputation for being nothing but freeways. Therefore, the representatives from New Jersey pushed for its cancelation in order to avoid furthering that undesirable image. The state was then supposed to use the $246 million cancelation money to beautify the rest of its freeway infrastructure but, instead, they used it to build I-87 through the Watchung Reservation. Ironic, isn't it?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 29, 2025, 01:12:34 AM7/29
Why was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
Someone had to stop the evil ways of I-95.
Quote from: kphoger on July 29, 2025, 10:27:48 AMThe state was then supposed to use the $246 million cancelation money to beautify the rest of its freeway infrastructure but, instead, they used it to build I-87 through the Watchung Reservation. Ironic, isn't it?
Adding a third I-87 to the Interstate system is what really makes this beyond the pale.
Quote from: kphoger on July 29, 2025, 10:27:48 AMThe state was then supposed to use the $246 million cancelation money to beautify the rest of its freeway infrastructure but, instead, they used it to build I-87 through the Watchung Reservation. Ironic, isn't it?
Quote from: webny99 on July 29, 2025, 11:22:15 AMAdding a third I-87 to the Interstate system is what really makes this beyond the pale.
I can always count on you to catch my typos! :-D
I-78.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on July 29, 2025, 01:12:34 AM7/29
Why was the Somerset Freeway (I-95) canceled in New Jersey in 1983?
New Jersey was mad that I-95 upstaged the New Jersey Turnpike when the interstates came around, so in an act of protest, cancelled their segment. Eventually, a compromise was reached, with I-95 utilizing more of the New Jersey Turnpike while still serving Philadelphia.
Quote from: kphoger on July 29, 2025, 10:27:48 AMThe state was then supposed to use the $246 million cancelation money to beautify the rest of its freeway infrastructure but, instead, they used it to build I-87 through the Watchung Reservation. Ironic, isn't it?
Quote from: webny99 on July 29, 2025, 11:22:15 AMAdding a third I-87 to the Interstate system is what really makes this beyond the pale.
Quote from: kphoger on July 29, 2025, 12:10:32 PMI can always count on you to catch my typos! :-D
I-78.
The dyslexic part of my brain didn't even notice the typo. (Of course, it helped that I did live a few miles off of I-78 for a short time).
Quote from: kphoger on July 29, 2025, 12:10:32 PMQuotethey used it to build I-87 through the Watchung Reservation. Ironic, isn't it?
QuoteAdding a third I-87 to the Interstate system is what really makes this beyond the pale.
I can always count on you to catch my typos! :-D
I-78.
Yeah, I was about
95% sure that was a typo (having driven I-78 through the Watchung Reservation many times), and couldn't miss an opportunity to be pedantic. :sombrero:
Quote from: webny99 on July 29, 2025, 03:18:34 PMQuote from: kphoger on July 29, 2025, 12:10:32 PMQuotethey used it to build I-87 through the Watchung Reservation. Ironic, isn't it?
QuoteAdding a third I-87 to the Interstate system is what really makes this beyond the pale.
I can always count on you to catch my typos! :-D
I-78.
Yeah, I was about 95% sure that was a typo (having driven I-78 through the Watchung Reservation many times), and couldn't miss an opportunity to be pedantic. :sombrero:
Well, look at it this way: The thread asks for the "worst possible answer." So, in that sense, the typo was a good thing in that it made the answer even worse.
Quote from: kphoger on July 28, 2025, 09:28:38 AM28 JUL 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/MUTCD_W6-3.svg/250px-MUTCD_W6-3.svg.png)
Lost? You're on your own kid.
July 30:
The Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMJuly 30:
The Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
Back in 1956 there was no GPS, and people couldn't remember what state they were in.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMJuly 30:
The Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
States wanted to take credit for funding their 10% so they put their name in the shields at roughly 10% the size of the numbers.
Heh. Because back then, nobody ever thought that somebody would ever want to remove the state names from U.S. Route shields.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMJuly 30:
The Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
The Interstate shield contains the state name because
they aren't federal highways.
/me drops the mic and calmly walks off stage.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMJuly 30:
The Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
The people who planned the system foresaw the founding of Alanland and a world in which the Interstate shield both does and does not contain the state name.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMJuly 30:
The Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
In the pre-internet days, copyright law gave the states 5 cents every time someone looked at a state name shield.
Quote from: NE2 on July 30, 2025, 10:26:59 AMIn the pre-internet days, copyright law gave the states 5 cents every time someone looked at a state name shield.
One common way to avoid being tracked in that way was to wear a hat made of tinfoil while driving.
Quote from: I-55 on July 30, 2025, 08:26:59 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMJuly 30:
The Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
States wanted to take credit for funding their 10% so they put their name in the shields at roughly 10% the size of the numbers.
Pssst...that's the actual reason it's there...
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMJuly 30:
The Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
To satisfy and enrage people online who probably have too much of their brain output dedicated to highway signage.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMJuly 30:
The Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
...the county name was just a little too specific, and the continent's name was too broad.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMJuly 30:
The Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
Schoolchildren could practice spelling state names while traveling.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMThe Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
otherwise, neighboring states would steal them for their own use.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMThe Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
the state DOT couldn't find any advertisers interested in a branding deal.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMJuly 30:
The Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
The Interstate shield contains the state name because
inventory stickers weren't a thing yet.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMJuly 30:
The Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
...someone graffitied it on? It sure wasn't there when my DOT put the sign up.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMJuly 30:
The Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
It is owned and operated by the state.
Quote from: Henry on July 30, 2025, 10:29:32 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on July 30, 2025, 04:48:23 AMJuly 30:
The Interstate shield contains the state name because __________.
It is owned and operated by the state.
Quote from: kphoger on July 17, 2025, 10:50:32 PMThen we come up with the worst, least applicable, most inappropriate answer to the question.
I'm gonna be early tonight, since I'm very sleepy.
7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PM7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
So Montreal can call itself the Breezewood of Canada.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PM7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
Public opinions polls have consistently shown that area residents prefer stop-and-go traffic over free-flowing traffic. The latter is commonly perceived to be too 'American'.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PMI'm gonna be early tonight, since I'm very sleepy.
7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
Because roadgeeks take it hard when they drive on that segment. They look at life with such disregard.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PMI'm gonna be early tonight, since I'm very sleepy.
7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
Quebec saw the traffic flow (or lack thereof) on the 401 and figured they could flex on Ontario by adding traffic signals and still operate better than the 401.
Quote from: xonhulu on July 31, 2025, 12:06:06 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PM7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
So Montreal Île Perrot can call itself the Breezewood of Canada.
FTFY, but yes. :)
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PM7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
Because
boulevard just sounds so... so... so
French!
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PMI'm gonna be early tonight, since I'm very sleepy.
7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
The highway planner was listening to Tiny Dancer and decided a boulevard is not that bad.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PM7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
Because people who care about access control will take A-30 anyway, so what would be the point?
~ or ~
Because the approach to YUL is directly in line with A-20, and overpasses would get in the way of the planes' flight path.
~ or ~
Because the rotisserie chicken cartel of Vaudreuil-Dorion and Île-Perrot (Capurô VDP) blocked freeway expansion plans through intimidation tactics.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PMI'm gonna be early tonight, since I'm very sleepy.
7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
Because I made it one :bigass: I dug a hole and fell in it creating a massive storm of bricks that formed into a massive boulevard. I realized it was there, I wanted it to go to Saint Louis du Ha! Ha! instead, but it ended up on its current route.
I'm sorry I had to get that info out there.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PM7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
Because it's easier to stop to get poutine after midnight at the Tim Horton's on Blvd. Cardinal Léger if you don't have to exit the
Autoroute freeway.
Quote from: Dirt Roads on July 31, 2025, 09:35:29 PMQuote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PM7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
Because it's easier to stop to get poutine after midnight at the Tim Horton's on Blvd. Cardinal Léger if you don't have to exit the Autoroute freeway.
Truly a godawful answer considering Tim Horton's doesn't sell poutine.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PM7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
The engineers' folks are home playing
Beat the Clock.
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 31, 2025, 10:05:30 PMQuote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PM7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
The engineers' folks are home playing Beat the Clock.
They're slackin'
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 31, 2025, 10:05:30 PMQuote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PM7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
The engineers' folks are home playing Beat the Clock.
I beat you to that song earlier in the thread:
Quote from: 1995hoo on July 31, 2025, 09:24:39 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PMI'm gonna be early tonight, since I'm very sleepy.
7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
Because roadgeeks take it hard when they drive on that segment. They look at life with such disregard.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 30, 2025, 11:23:49 PM7/31/2025: Why is A-20 a boulevard between A-30 and Montréal?
Quote from: Dirt Roads on July 31, 2025, 09:35:29 PMBecause it's easier to stop to get poutine after midnight at the Tim Horton's on Blvd. Cardinal Léger if you don't have to exit the Autoroute freeway.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 31, 2025, 10:00:26 PMTruly a godawful answer considering Tim Horton's doesn't sell poutine.
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.4L0Feadwvbax6eoWOGJNLAHaEK%3Fpid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=354d121d7eb23b1096da14625a52213fe822bdce837a105a75a22a2c72b1d80f&ipo=images)
Quote from: kphoger on July 31, 2025, 05:56:49 PMBecause the rotisserie chicken cartel of Vaudreuil-Dorion and Île-Perrot (Capurô VDP) blocked freeway expansion plans through intimidation tactics.
Quote from: Dirt Roads on July 31, 2025, 09:35:29 PMBecause it's easier to stop to get poutine after midnight at the Tim Horton's on Blvd. Cardinal Léger if you don't have to exit the Autoroute freeway.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on July 31, 2025, 10:00:26 PMTim Horton's doesn't sell poutine.
As I said, it was the rotisserie chicken cartel, not Tim Horton's. And besides, Cardinal Léger is the only freeway exit on the whole island, so his answer obviously doesn't even make sense.
01 AUG 2025
The junction of ______ and _____ should be converted to a _____ instead of its current configuration.
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 10:17:37 AM01 AUG 2025
The junction of ______ and _____ should be converted to a _____ instead of its current configuration.
The junction of I-70 and US 30 in Breezewood, Pennsylvania should be converted to a massive roundabout that destroys the entire city instead of its current position, heck, maybe even an interchange.
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 10:17:37 AM01 AUG 2025
The junction of ______ and _____ should be converted to a _____ instead of its current configuration.
The junction of
I-90/94 and
I-290 in Chicago should be converted to a
four-way stop with triple left-turn lanes on all approaches instead of its current configuration.
The junction of I-690 and NY 5 should be converted to a vertical ladder instead of its current configuration.
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 10:27:53 AMQuote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 10:17:37 AM01 AUG 2025
The junction of ______ and _____ should be converted to a _____ instead of its current configuration.
The junction of I-90/94 and I-290 in Chicago should be converted to a four-way stop with triple left-turn lanes on all approaches instead of its current configuration.
Let's just make the Dan Ryan a stroad at that point :sombrero:
Also, isn't the Hypotenuse a thing that exists? Couldn't we just use that?
Good answer though.
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 10:17:37 AM01 AUG 2025
The junction of ______ and _____ should be converted to a _____ instead of its current configuration.
The junction of
I-95, I-395, and the Capital Beltway in Virginia should be converted to
a Swindon-style Magic Roundabout (though on a larger scale) instead of its current configuration.
In addition,
webcams and
bleachers should be set up, with the latter exempted from any laws prohibiting public consumption of alcohol, to allow everyone to watch what happens when the new Magic Roundabout opens.
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 01, 2025, 10:51:57 AM... when the new Magic Roundabout opens.
If we're going to have a new Magic Roundabout, then shouldn't it be at I-4 and FL-408 instead?
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 10:59:09 AMQuote from: 1995hoo on August 01, 2025, 10:51:57 AM... when the new Magic Roundabout opens.
If we're going to have a new Magic Roundabout, then shouldn't it be at I-4 and FL-408 instead?
In that case, why stop there? Why not replace the Golden Glades?
The junction of Broadway, 7th Ave and 45th Street in Midtown Manhattan should be converted to a stack interchange with frontage roads instead of its current configuration.
The junction of i-43/94 and I-794 should be converted to a surface parking lot instead of its current configuration.
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 01, 2025, 10:51:57 AM... when the new Magic Roundabout opens.
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 10:59:09 AMIf we're going to have a new Magic Roundabout, then shouldn't it be at I-4 and FL-408 instead?
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 01, 2025, 11:00:27 AMIn that case, why stop there? Why not replace the Golden Glades?
Because it isn't right next to where the Magic play.
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 11:07:45 AMQuote from: 1995hoo on August 01, 2025, 10:51:57 AM... when the new Magic Roundabout opens.
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 10:59:09 AMIf we're going to have a new Magic Roundabout, then shouldn't it be at I-4 and FL-408 instead?
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 01, 2025, 11:00:27 AMIn that case, why stop there? Why not replace the Golden Glades?
Because it isn't right next to where the Magic play.
Ahhh. But that's a
good answer. Puns are always good.
Quote from: Big John on August 01, 2025, 11:06:57 AMThe junction of i-43/94 and I-794 should be converted to a surface parking lot instead of its current configuration.
How many crashes would occur though?
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 01, 2025, 11:14:26 AMHow many crashes would occur though?
Speeds would be quite low, though, so probably not many.
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 10:17:37 AM01 AUG 2025
The junction of ______ and _____ should be converted to a _____ instead of its current configuration.
The junction of
I-75/85 and
I-20 should be converted to a
jpeg of a goat instead of its current configuration.
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 10:17:37 AM01 AUG 2025
The junction of ______ and _____ should be converted to a _____ instead of its current configuration.
The junction of Business US-29 and Business US-250 should be converted to a "Tundy for the rehabilitation of First and Second-Year Lawnies". YKIYK.
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 10:17:37 AMThe junction of ______ and _____ should be converted to a _____ instead of its current configuration.
The junction of "con" and "junction" should be converted to a question of its function.
The junction of Main and Cimarron in Boise City (OK) should be converted to a cloverleaf instead of its current configuration.
The junction of US-101 and CA-110 should be converted to a simple overpass with no ramps instead of its current configuration.
The junction of A-73, A-540 and QC 175 should be converted to a five-way stop instead of its current configuration.
The eastern junction of I-70 and I-435 should be converted to a nuclear weapon test site instead of its current configuration.
(No reason)
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 01, 2025, 04:35:12 PMThe junction of A-73, A-540 and QC 175 should be converted to a five-way stop instead of its current configuration.
Will Chemin St-Louis remain grade-separated?
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 01, 2025, 04:35:12 PMA-73, A-540 and QC 175 ... current configuration
By the way, the more I look at this interchange, the lower my jaw drops. It's simply fascinating!
The junction of I-11 and I-15 should be converted to a casino instead of its current configuration.
(It would be like a toll booth, but with blackjack and hookers.)
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 04:42:17 PMWill Chemin St-Louis remain grade-separated?
Chemin Saint-Louis is its own exit on QC 175, so I didn't count it.
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 04:44:36 PMBy the way, the more I look at this interchange, the lower my jaw drops. It's simply fascinating!
Yeah, it's a mess that would benefit from a reconfiguration that is not a five-way stop.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 01, 2025, 04:47:28 PMChemin Saint-Louis is its own exit on QC 175, so I didn't count it.
And
also on A-73 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/xugXwvkrZsibQGYc9). And
also kinda sorta A-540 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/wy3eZJZ4ojA56ZPd8). So stop evading the question.
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 05:00:14 PMQuote from: LilianaUwU on August 01, 2025, 04:47:28 PMChemin Saint-Louis is its own exit on QC 175, so I didn't count it.
And also on A-73 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/xugXwvkrZsibQGYc9). And also kinda sorta A-540 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/wy3eZJZ4ojA56ZPd8). So stop evading the question.
Fine. Both A-73 and QC 175 will get their own four-way stops at Chemin Saint-Louis.
The junction of I-5, CA 60, US 101, and I-10 should be converted into a Grand Alan shaped bell full of whistles and mechanical devices, also, no interchanges for these highways! All intersections!
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 04:51:49 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on August 01, 2025, 04:47:19 PMhookers
I think you mean graphing hooks.
The beauty of Nevada is that if you want to pay a graphing hook for an evening of companionship, that's your own business.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 01, 2025, 06:00:28 PMThe beauty of Nevada is that if you want to pay a graphing hook for an evening of companionship, that's your own business.
Technically, it's the graphing pimp's business.
Quote from: kphoger on August 01, 2025, 06:32:54 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on August 01, 2025, 06:00:28 PMThe beauty of Nevada is that if you want to pay a graphing hook for an evening of companionship, that's your own business.
Technically, it's the graphing pimp's business.
Why isn't it our business and why is it theirs though? I'm confused.
At the I-95/395/495 interchange all the flyovers should be replaced with drawbridges to reduce the height of the interchange.
Quote from: Mapmikey on August 01, 2025, 07:18:43 PMAt the I-95/395/495 interchange all the flyovers should be replaced with drawbridges to reduce the height of the interchange.
This is very much logical!
8/2/2025: How would you fix the issue of ship collisions at the Key Bridge?
Quote from: vdeane on August 02, 2025, 12:01:29 AM8/2/2025: How would you fix the issue of ship collisions at the Key Bridge?
All ships must anchor 3 miles off shore and load or unload the cargo there.
Install a massive pinball flipper underneath the water near the bridge. When a ship gets too close, the flipper can flip the ship over away from the bridge.
Quote from: vdeane on August 02, 2025, 12:01:29 AM8/2/2025: How would you fix the issue of ship collisions at the Key Bridge?
Require trained dolphins to drive all vehicles over the bridges.
Quote from: vdeane on August 02, 2025, 12:01:29 AM8/2/2025: How would you fix the issue of ship collisions at the Key Bridge?
On August 29, 2024, the Maryland Transportation Authority awarded a $73 million contract to Jacuzzi Inc., of Irvine, California, to install jets on the banks of the Patapsco River. When Jacuzzi's patented Ship-Tek™ technology detects a ship has left the shipping channel, the jets will activate to push the ship away from the bridge. Additionally, Baltimore residents will receive a notification on their phones that it is a great time to enjoy the Patapsco River, which will have been heated to a therapeutic 100°F.
Quote from: vdeane on August 02, 2025, 12:01:29 AM8/2/2025: How would you fix the issue of ship collisions at the Key Bridge?
Seems to me that this problem fixed itself.
Quote from: vdeane on August 02, 2025, 12:01:29 AM8/2/2025: How would you fix the issue of ship collisions at the Key Bridge?
Pool noodles
Quote from: vdeane on August 02, 2025, 12:01:29 AM8/2/2025: How would you fix the issue of ship collisions at the Key Bridge?
Arrange for Singaporeans to knock it down and clear the channel.
Quote from: vdeane on August 02, 2025, 12:01:29 AM8/2/2025: How would you fix the issue of ship collisions at the Key Bridge?
Have one ship run into the bridge, ""on accident"". Problem solved for the 4.5 years it takes to rebuild. Rinse and repeat.
Quote from: vdeane on August 02, 2025, 12:01:29 AM8/2/2025: How would you fix the issue of ship collisions at the Key Bridge?
Rename the bridge.
~ or ~
Move the Port of Baltimore to Riviera Beach.
~ or ~
Have the USAF "accidentally" drop a nuke on it.
~ or ~
Build a tunnel instead.
Magnets.
Quote from: vdeane on August 02, 2025, 12:01:29 AM8/2/2025: How would you fix the issue of ship collisions at the Key Bridge?
Built a set of inbound and outbound locks a couple miles long that forces ships to a specific lane under the bridge.
Quote from: vdeane on August 02, 2025, 12:01:29 AM8/2/2025: How would you fix the issue of ship collisions at the Key Bridge?
By doing nothing, it's not a big issue, heck, we don't even care about it right now. What we do care about is building a bunch of tiny replicas and maybe stitching them together throughout the old bridge.
Send to the Suez Canal Authority for a pilot.
Quote from: kkt on August 02, 2025, 02:22:42 PMSend to the Suez Canal Authority for a pilot.
That's not a good idea, why? Because the Suez Canal is nowhere near the bridge!
Quote from: vdeane on August 02, 2025, 12:01:29 AM8/2/2025: How would you fix the issue of ship collisions at the Key Bridge?
Replace the bridge with a pair of trebuchets that launch vehicles across the river.
8/3/2025: What city should we add more freeways to, and why?
Hamer, SC, with the intent of building straight through and destroying South of the Border so that we can stop seeing those billboards.
Madison WI, so we can see more protests.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 03, 2025, 10:16:00 AM8/3/2025: What city should we add more freeways to, and why?
Quote from: Big John on August 03, 2025, 11:45:48 AMMadison WI, so we can see more protests.
Ann Arbor says hello. Can't even add a lane, let alone new freeways.
Quote from: vdeane on August 02, 2025, 12:01:29 AM8/2/2025: How would you fix the issue of ship collisions at the Key Bridge?
If you let two people call out random ship coordinates, one at a time, there should be no bridge collisions.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 03, 2025, 10:16:00 AM8/3/2025: What city should we add more freeways to, and why?
Chicago, because there are still a few cities in the Midwest that aren't directly connected to the Loop.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 03, 2025, 10:16:00 AM8/3/2025: What city should we add more freeways to, and why?
Limon, CO, the most important city on the Interstate Highway System.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 03, 2025, 10:16:00 AM8/3/2025: What city should we add more freeways to, and why?
The Vatican, for the challenge of numbering exits.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 03, 2025, 10:16:00 AM8/3/2025: What city should we add more freeways to, and why?
Goldfield, Nevada, because I think this is needed.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 03, 2025, 10:16:00 AM8/3/2025: What city should we add more freeways to, and why?
Louisville, more freeway, less city.
Quote from: hbelkins on January 06, 2017, 07:44:52 PMMe, I'd like to see a zillion-lane freeway completely obliterate everything inside the Watterson. :bigass:
Quote from: I-55 on August 03, 2025, 04:49:49 PMQuote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 03, 2025, 10:16:00 AM8/3/2025: What city should we add more freeways to, and why?
Louisville, more freeway, less city.
Quote from: hbelkins on January 06, 2017, 07:44:52 PMMe, I'd like to see a zillion-lane freeway completely obliterate everything inside the Watterson. :bigass:
What does that guy have against Louisville, sheesh, it's even his profile picture!
It's Hibby.
Quote from: NE2 on August 03, 2025, 05:42:20 PMIt's Hibby.
And why do you think we should add more freeways to Hibby?
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 03, 2025, 10:16:00 AM8/3/2025: What city should we add more freeways to, and why?
Quindaro, because Alan Dunes-Flamingo's eventual re-election campaign will need more places to create traffic jams.
8/4/2025: Why do you think variable speed limits exist and should we remove them?
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 04, 2025, 04:06:51 PM8/4/2025: Why do you think variable speed limits exist and should we remove them?
Normal speed limit signs didn't earn contractors enough money. We should remove them so the contractors can get a contract for removal, just so they can put them back in 3-4 years.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 04, 2025, 04:06:51 PM8/4/2025: Why do you think variable speed limits exist and should we remove them?
They use actuarial data to determine the risk of accidents in given conditions. The more likely an accident, the higher the speed limit.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 04, 2025, 04:06:51 PM8/4/2025: Why do you think variable speed limits exist and should we remove them?
Variable speed limits exist because the freeway system lacks a preprocessor, so
#define macros aren't an option.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 04, 2025, 04:06:51 PM8/4/2025: Why do you think variable speed limits exist and should we remove them?
Variable speed limits serve to provide a real-life example for people to use their algebra skills on out on the road. You want to know the speed limit? Then you'll have to solve 5x-196=104 to figure it out.
To remove a variable speed limit, you divide it by itself (x/x=1, etc.). Therefore, we should not remove variable speed limits because then the limit would be 1 mph.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 04, 2025, 04:06:51 PM8/4/2025: Why do you think variable speed limits exist and should we remove them?
Variable speed limits are highway departments' effort to emulate Rosco P. Coltrane's speedtrap, but they don't work as well because they now use electronic signs instead of a mechanical sign where part of the sign flips over to reduce the digit in the "tens" place to a lower number.
8/5/2025: Which country should the European E-route system expand to next?
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 05, 2025, 09:46:38 AM8/5/2025: Which country should the European E-route system expand to next?
Every country. I think this is needed.
(Would E-route vs. Interstate be another VHS vs. Betamax battle? Yes, I'm showing my age.)
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 05, 2025, 09:46:38 AM8/5/2025: Which country should the European E-route system expand to next?
Latveria
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 05, 2025, 09:46:38 AM8/5/2025: Which country should the European E-route system expand to next?
A motorway straight through the Vatican.
Australia. Think of all the jobs that will be created.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 05, 2025, 09:46:38 AM8/5/2025: Which country should the European E-route system expand to next?
Bermuda.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 05, 2025, 09:46:38 AM8/5/2025: Which country should the European E-route system expand to next?
Alanland or Nimbya, probably Nimbya first because they rival the Alan's.
Quote from: pderocco on August 05, 2025, 12:48:50 PMAustralia. Think of all the jobs that will be created.
If they can participate in Eurovision, then they can have the European route system.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 05, 2025, 09:46:38 AM8/5/2025: Which country should the European E-route system expand to next?
Ecuador. E5 can serve the Galapagos.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 05, 2025, 09:46:38 AM8/5/2025: Which country should the European E-route system expand to next?
The Principality of Sealand
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 05, 2025, 02:58:58 PMQuoteAustralia. Think of all the jobs that will be created.
If they can participate in Eurovision, then they can have the European route system.
So...Israel too?
(Sorry...really can't resist)
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 05, 2025, 09:46:38 AM8/5/2025: Which country should the European E-route system expand to next?
Québec
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 05, 2025, 09:46:38 AM8/5/2025: Which country should the European E-route system expand to next?
How About having the European E-route system in all 15 North American countries, the countries will be, the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Terrtiories, Nunavut, Quebec, Greenland, Iceland, Alanland, Hawaii, Bermuda, Belize, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, not central america, caribbean, or south america because i considered them other continents, and i would also like to have to have the European E-route system in Europe and Australia, in Europe will have them in every country, like the UK, France or Spain, and in Australia will have them also in every country, like in Australia (Nation), or New Zealand, and this European E-routes also be in Antarctica, and maybe South Africa, because in Antarctica theres only 1 or 2 countries, and about 5 or 6 Territories, and in South Africa because it looks like Europe, Australia, or North America, and those continents like North America, Europe, and Australia do look alike along with Antarctica and South Africa, theres my plan
What is a little-known requirement in the Interstate System standards?
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 06, 2025, 03:48:07 AMWhat is a little-known requirement in the Interstate System standards?
Since 2020, only Interstates with a Buc-ee's are eligible for federal funding to clear out beaver dams from culverts. Any beaver dams built in Culver's are to be reinforced with steel.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 06, 2025, 03:48:07 AMWhat is a little-known requirement in the Interstate System standards?
That 1 in every 5 miles must be straight to entice airplanes to land there, thus generating fines for illegal use of the roadway.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 06, 2025, 03:48:07 AMWhat is a little-known requirement in the Interstate System standards?
Overpasses and flyovers need to be continuous.
Detroit tried some Hot Wheels ramps on the Ford Expressway (with "Minimum Speed" signs posted) to save money, but there were unsolvable safety issues.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 06, 2025, 03:48:07 AMWhat is a little-known requirement in the Interstate System standards?
Non-grid compliant numbers are required so they incite discussion about nominal routes.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 06, 2025, 03:48:07 AMWhat is a little-known requirement in the Interstate System standards?
All cuts through mountainsides in Appalachia need to extract a sufficient amount of marketable coal to pay for that section of highway construction. Bonus if you can make candles out of it.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 06, 2025, 03:48:07 AMWhat is a little-known requirement in the Interstate System standards?
The rumble strips on the shoulder were added so that tanks can run their treads in the grooves.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 06, 2025, 03:48:07 AMWhat is a little-known requirement in the Interstate System standards?
All Interstate-standard highways in areas that receive more than 20 inches of snow annually shall be jointed plain concrete pavement, so that after five full winters, drivers can enjoy the same up-and-down exhilaration experienced by a person operating a Wave Runner.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 06, 2025, 03:48:07 AMWhat is a little-known requirement in the Interstate System standards?
On a random day every month, cargo aircraft are required to perform landings on every 5 miles of curved interstate, since runways rarely have curves, and the pilots need the practice.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 06, 2025, 03:48:07 AMWhat is a little-known requirement in the Interstate System standards?
No drivers exam should ever take place on an interstate highway, leaving people to endless argue about etiquette pertaining to merging and keeping right.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 06, 2025, 03:48:07 AMWhat is a little-known requirement in the Interstate System standards?
While the repeal of the NMSL mostly left interstate speed limits up to the states, four-lane interstates are still required to set the speed limit for trucks in the left lane at just barely above however fast the trucks in the right lane are going.
8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 07, 2025, 01:59:40 AM8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?
Because pooing is cool.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 07, 2025, 01:59:40 AM8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?
It was cheating on them with another province.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 07, 2025, 01:59:40 AM8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?
Couldn't handle all that extra fiber and had to find a restroom.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 07, 2025, 01:59:40 AM8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?
They were worried they'd run out of numbers in the 400's if all those routes were upgraded to freeways.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 07, 2025, 01:59:40 AM8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?
Mike Harris admired the late Harry Flood Byrd and decided to honor him by imitating the Byrd Road Act.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 07, 2025, 01:59:40 AM8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?
Because having a coherent route system without a ton of gaps everywhere is for sissies.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 07, 2025, 01:59:40 AMWhy did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?
Ontario had too much money and decided to dispose of some of the excess with highway-related bureaucracy and signage changes.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 07, 2025, 01:59:40 AM8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?
Due to the National requirement of the metric system, when the parliament demanded "kilometerage", they found there was no such definition, and thus the downloading of provincial highways could not be recovered after disposal, until Canadian dictionaries could be amended. Since there are two National languages, neither side is budging and thus, the routes stay hidden from view.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 07, 2025, 01:59:40 AM8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?
It realized it had far exceeded the 55% CanCon quota, so it could cut expenses.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 07, 2025, 01:59:40 AM8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?
Lake Michigan overflowed two years in a row and destroyed most of Ontario's highways...
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 07, 2025, 01:59:40 AM8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?
They had to remove highways that would cause Y2K bugs in the route inventory.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 07, 2025, 01:59:40 AM8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?
Someone from the province's DOT secretly took a trip to Indianapolis and liked the idea of a mileage cap so much that they brought it back across the border.
8/8/2025: What's the nearest hub city to Denver?
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 08, 2025, 12:49:26 AM8/8/2025: What's the nearest hub city to Denver?
The what?
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 08, 2025, 12:49:26 AM8/8/2025: What's the nearest hub city to Denver?
John Denver was cremated and his ashes scattered in the Rocky Mountains. Therefore, the closest hub city to Denver is Denver, Colorado.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 08, 2025, 12:49:26 AM8/8/2025: What's the nearest hub city to Denver?
Centralia, Washington (https://hubcitymusic.net/)
Today's question seems more related to air travel than to roads.
But, with that said, I was tempted to answer Hub, California (https://maps.app.goo.gl/i7qBQsPB5MjPgoM99). But that seems likely to be a good answer. So instead I'll cite Hub, Austria (https://maps.app.goo.gl/G7zwaye1tyt5Mfxh9).
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 08, 2025, 08:39:12 AMToday's question seems more related to air travel than to roads.
But, with that said, I was tempted to answer Hub, California (https://maps.app.goo.gl/i7qBQsPB5MjPgoM99). But that seems likely to be a good answer. So instead I'll cite Hub, Austria (https://maps.app.goo.gl/G7zwaye1tyt5Mfxh9).
They have a cool "Fix CA 41 The 2 Lane Death Trap" banner at Hub:
https://flic.kr/p/2mfWBsh
Old joke: You can't go to hell without passing through Atlanta first.
8/9/2025: Whats the best road to drive your small Toyota sedan on in the entirety of the States?
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 09, 2025, 01:11:20 AM8/9/2025: Whats the best road to drive your small Toyota sedan on in the entirety of the States?
BR-230
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 09, 2025, 01:11:20 AM8/9/2025: Whats the best road to drive your small Toyota sedan on in the entirety of the States?
As a 2024 Toyota Corolla driver I'd say Chowchilla Mountain Road.
https://www.gribblenation.org/2025/07/chowchilla-mountain-road-to-yosemite.html?m=1
Lake Como Road (https://denvergazette.com/outtherecolorado/adventures/a-trip-up-lake-como-road-the-roughest-road-in-colorado/article_4102f35e-3d91-54e4-851c-29684e1add88.html)
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 09, 2025, 01:11:20 AM8/9/2025: Whats the best road to drive your small Toyota sedan on in the entirety of the States?
That's a Japanese car, so I'd suggest Hunt Road, a short distance northeast of Twin Falls, Idaho.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 09, 2025, 01:11:20 AM8/9/2025: Whats the best road to drive your small Toyota sedan on in the entirety of the States?
The Dalton Highway
Limon is a genuinely horrible answer considering Colorado Springs is 20 miles closer.
M-185
KY-199 (https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?topic=4508.msg24897#msg24897)
Quote from: cockroachking on August 09, 2025, 09:52:37 AMKY-199 (https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?topic=4508.msg24897#msg24897)
I thought KY 199 was obtainable from the photos HB showed.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 09, 2025, 09:30:54 AMM-185
I would pay to ship to my Corolla to Mackinaw Island just to do this. That would give me the run, bike and drive cycle. I guess that would leave only snowmobile left.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 09, 2025, 10:12:18 AMQuote from: cockroachking on August 09, 2025, 09:52:37 AMKY-199 (https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?topic=4508.msg24897#msg24897)
I thought KY 199 was obtainable from the photos HB showed.
Possible in a sedan, yes. A good idea, no.
Quote from: cockroachking on August 09, 2025, 10:53:56 AMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on August 09, 2025, 10:12:18 AMQuote from: cockroachking on August 09, 2025, 09:52:37 AMKY-199 (https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?topic=4508.msg24897#msg24897)
I thought KY 199 was obtainable from the photos HB showed.
Possible in a sedan, yes. A good idea, no.
All the most memorable ideas tend to lurk in that realm of "should I be doing this?"
Quote from: cockroachking on August 09, 2025, 10:53:56 AMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on August 09, 2025, 10:12:18 AMQuote from: cockroachking on August 09, 2025, 09:52:37 AMKY-199 (https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?topic=4508.msg24897#msg24897)
I thought KY 199 was obtainable from the photos HB showed.
Possible in a sedan, yes. A good idea, no.
Note the thread's subject line.
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 09, 2025, 05:16:27 PMQuote from: cockroachking on August 09, 2025, 10:53:56 AMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on August 09, 2025, 10:12:18 AMQuote from: cockroachking on August 09, 2025, 09:52:37 AMKY-199 (https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?topic=4508.msg24897#msg24897)
I thought KY 199 was obtainable from the photos HB showed.
Possible in a sedan, yes. A good idea, no.
Note the thread's subject line.
True, but I'm quite confident my Toyota sedan has been on far worse in just this year alone than what KY 199 can muster.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54476187971_d11e666c1c_4k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2qZSGLc)IMG_7553 (https://flic.kr/p/2qZSGLc) by Max Rockatansky (https://www.flickr.com/photos/151828809@N08/), on Flickr
And to that end the only road I can think of this year that I've been on that there is no way I could have made it through in a sedan with 5.7 inches of ground clearance is Chowchilla Mountain Road:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54587447856_655bed6855_4k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2raGWs5)IMG_9419 (https://flic.kr/p/2raGWs5) by Max Rockatansky (https://www.flickr.com/photos/151828809@N08/), on Flickr
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 09, 2025, 01:11:20 AM8/9/2025: Whats the best road to drive your small Toyota sedan on in the entirety of the States?
Dog Valley Road in the Sierra Nevada. An excellent alternative to I-80, especially in winter.
Quote from: jlam on August 09, 2025, 09:00:17 PMQuote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 09, 2025, 01:11:20 AM8/9/2025: Whats the best road to drive your small Toyota sedan on in the entirety of the States?
Dog Valley Road in the Sierra Nevada. An excellent alternative to I-80, especially in winter.
Plenty of spare parts laying around in the abandoned vehicles.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 09, 2025, 01:11:20 AM8/9/2025: Whats the best road to drive your small Toyota sedan on in the entirety of the States?
Anvil Canyon Road (https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/introduction/)
8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 10, 2025, 08:42:22 AM8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?
Teleportation.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 10, 2025, 08:42:22 AM8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?
Chemical lobotomy
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 10, 2025, 08:42:22 AM8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?
To reduce wear and tear, have a weight limit of 200 lb per person and anyone over that has to get in shape before they're allowed on the highway again. Then, utilizing the smaller bodies, more people can be packed into cars.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 10, 2025, 08:42:22 AM8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?
To prevent improper highway demand, one must make sacrifices to a gigantic monster which lies in the shallow, brackish waters just south-eastwest by north of Autopia. It must be fed a monthly diet of busses, trains, and other light rail to be pacified, lest this
kaiju angers to the point of destruction and begins to immolate cities, both #strong and weak. Area leaders contemplate how to pacify this beast...can it also be satisfied with moving walkways, penny farthing bicycles, and scooters? While rumors persist that the terrifying leviathan was once defeated by the local roller derby team in tandem with the Safety Patrol, there are always fears that
Gotchazilla will poison our water supply with a mere tincture of chemtrail droppings to render our own legs useless due to spontaneous human combustion.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 10, 2025, 08:42:22 AM8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?
Dig more tunnels to make, as I call them, low-ways.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 10, 2025, 08:42:22 AM8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?
Higher-numbered highways always need to be south of lower-numbered ones. That way, with the little number on top and the big number on the bottom, there won't be anything "improper."
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 10, 2025, 12:46:26 PMQuote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 10, 2025, 08:42:22 AM8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?
Higher-numbered highways always need to be south of lower-numbered ones. That way, with the little number on top and the big number on the bottom, there won't be anything "improper."
West Virginia Shrugged
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 10, 2025, 08:42:22 AM8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?
Setting all speed limits to no higher than 25.
Quote from: kkt on August 10, 2025, 10:55:06 PMQuote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 10, 2025, 08:42:22 AM8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?
Setting all speed limits to no higher than 25.
You might be on to something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion_control
8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?
Quote from: vdeane on August 11, 2025, 12:40:55 PM8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?
Say hello to the road.
Quote from: vdeane on August 11, 2025, 12:40:55 PM8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?
Asking my wife to read the printout and directions while I'm driving.
Quote from: MikeTheActuary on August 05, 2025, 04:07:20 PMQuote from: hotdogPi on August 05, 2025, 09:46:38 AM8/5/2025: Which country should the European E-route system expand to next?
Québec
Yes! That was my answer too.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 07, 2025, 01:59:40 AM8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?
Removal of signed highway numbers was intended to slow the advance of any potential ground invasion from the USA.
Quote from: vdeane on August 11, 2025, 12:40:55 PM8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?
Talk about politics and religion, of course.
Quote from: vdeane on August 11, 2025, 12:40:55 PM8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?
Eat beaver nuggets, if you know what I mean ♋♋♋
I've now tried five times to type my answer to today's question in a way that would not offend someone, which perhaps reflects my taking the subject line's request for "worst possible answer" to an extreme I would not visit in real life. But I can't figure out a way to phrase it without possibly resulting in what another forum member called "Harassing/abusive personal messages."
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 11, 2025, 04:07:30 PMtaking the subject line's request for "worst possible answer" to an extreme I would not visit in real life
Autonecrophilic ideation?
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 04, 2025, 04:06:51 PM8/4/2025: Why do you think variable speed limits exist and should we remove them?
Variable speed limits eliminate the need for any speed limit-related engineering studies. They should be expanded, not removed, in order to cut down on government waste.
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 11, 2025, 04:07:30 PMI've now tried five times to type my answer to today's question in a way that would not offend someone, which perhaps reflects my taking the subject line's request for "worst possible answer" to an extreme I would not visit in real life. But I can't figure out a way to phrase it without possibly resulting in what another forum member called "Harassing/abusive personal messages."
Yeah I had one for today that follows a common phrase that could easily be misconstrued into an NSFW context, but overexplaining it ruins the effect.
Quote from: I-55 on August 11, 2025, 04:34:59 PMQuote from: 1995hoo on August 11, 2025, 04:07:30 PMI've now tried five times to type my answer to today's question in a way that would not offend someone, which perhaps reflects my taking the subject line's request for "worst possible answer" to an extreme I would not visit in real life. But I can't figure out a way to phrase it without possibly resulting in what another forum member called "Harassing/abusive personal messages."
Yeah I had one for today that follows a common phrase that could easily be misconstrued into an NSFW context, but overexplaining it ruins the effect.
Let's just say that if someone did in real life what I was getting at, certain forum members would be extremely offended, while others might applaud, and it would be overall awkward and unpleasant for everyone.
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 11, 2025, 04:44:06 PMLet's just say that if someone did in real life what I was getting at, certain forum members would be extremely offended, while others might applaud, and it would be overall awkward and unpleasant for everyone.
Go topless if you want. I don't care.
Drive 25 in a 55 MPH zone.
Quote from: vdeane on August 11, 2025, 12:40:55 PM8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?
Look at everything not road related.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on August 10, 2025, 08:42:22 AM8/10/2025: What do you think is needed to fix the improper demand for more highways?
Improper highways.
Quote from: vdeane on August 11, 2025, 12:40:55 PM8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?
Pooing. It's cool.
Quote from: webny99 on July 23, 2025, 05:18:20 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on July 20, 2025, 02:23:40 AMJuly 20:
Why do Interstate and US numbered routes use even numbers to denote east-west routes and odd numbers to denote north-south routes and not the other way around?
National Highway System Treasure
8/12/2025:
How do highway engineers choose between over/underpasses for interchanges?
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 12, 2025, 02:28:13 AM8/12/2025:
How do highway engineers choose between over/underpasses for interchanges?
They build them both and see which way the wave function collapses.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 12, 2025, 02:28:13 AM8/12/2025:
How do highway engineers choose between over/underpasses for interchanges?
They ask whether kernals12 will ever pass through the interchange. If the answer is yes, they try to figure out which design is more likely to puzzle him.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 12, 2025, 02:28:13 AM8/12/2025:
How do highway engineers choose between over/underpasses for interchanges?
Whichever one requires greater use of the Road Anarchy mod
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 12, 2025, 02:28:13 AM8/12/2025:
How do highway engineers choose between over/underpasses for interchanges?
rock paper scissors
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 12, 2025, 02:28:13 AM8/12/2025:
How do highway engineers choose between over/underpasses for interchanges?
Whether they have the budget for 4 letters or for 5.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 12, 2025, 02:28:13 AM8/12/2025:
How do highway engineers choose between over/underpasses for interchanges?
They don't. It's left up to the construction crew.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 12, 2025, 02:28:13 AM8/12/2025:
How do highway engineers choose between over/underpasses for interchanges?
Engineers Roshambo over which gets built.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 12, 2025, 02:28:13 AM8/12/2025:
How do highway engineers choose between over/underpasses for interchanges?
The build a balsa wood 3-D mockup of both options. Whichever one the boss thinks looks better, that's the one they go with.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 12, 2025, 02:28:13 AM8/12/2025:
How do highway engineers choose between over/underpasses for interchanges?
The modern approach is to carry out detailed, lengthy & costly planning studies to compare & contrast the utility of each, then just build a roundabout instead.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 12, 2025, 02:28:13 AM8/12/2025:
How do highway engineers choose between over/underpasses for interchanges?
By consulting Arthur Hale via spirit medium. This is part of the standard EIS (Environmental Impact Séance) process.
Quote from: vdeane on August 11, 2025, 12:40:55 PM8/11/25: What is your favorite thing to do at a roadmeet?
bip
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 12, 2025, 02:28:13 AM8/12/2025:
How do highway engineers choose between over/underpasses for interchanges?
They literally roll a pair of dice, and the option with the higher number wins. In case of a tie, they roll again until a winner is chosen.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 12, 2025, 02:28:13 AM8/12/2025:
How do highway engineers choose between over/underpasses for interchanges?
They do a study of how many bicycles and disabled pedestrians use the street. The higher the number, the higher the overpass.
2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
No jewelry stores ahead.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
That diamonds are forever.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
You're on the ACE
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
The next exit leads to a Cuban baseball field.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
rolling stop
~ or ~speed limit 10 mph
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
CAUTION: BOSTON FANS AHEAD
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
extreme caution: red vehicles ahead
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
That the gems are once again under the Great Diamond Authority and have started colonizing planets again, and that site is under the jurisdiction of a new, fifth diamond.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
parking for American Indians
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
WARNING: A theater ahead is showing a 2006 Leonardo DiCaprio movie.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
The slope is not worthy of a black diamond.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
Quote from: GaryV on August 13, 2025, 06:55:29 PMThe slope is not worthy of a black diamond.
What about a black diamond with red reflectors (
OM4-2 (https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2003r1/images/fig-3c-01.gif))?
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
Flammable highway ahead.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
This section of highway patrolled by 5th Infantry Division, Military Police Platoon.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 13, 2025, 09:17:07 AM2025-08-13:
What does a red diamond sign mean?
It's a carnival game. Hit the sign with your car and win a prize.
14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
Quote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 09:03:23 AM14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
Which State Route in Illinois? I find them so hard to rank with all that majestic mountainous splendor.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 14, 2025, 09:11:09 AMWhich State Route in Illinois? I find them so hard to rank with all that majestic mountainous splendor.
Ooooooohhhhhh, that
is a bad answer.......
Quote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 09:03:23 AM14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
UT-298 (https://wiki.aaroads.com/wiki/List_of_state_highways_serving_Utah_state_parks_and_institutions#State_Route_298).
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 14, 2025, 09:53:17 AMUT-298
I don't know, man. From the looks of it, you should actually be able to see the mountains from at least half of that route.
Quote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 10:03:20 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on August 14, 2025, 09:53:17 AMUT-298
I don't know, man. From the looks of it, you should actually be able to see the mountains from at least half of that route.
Fine, fine. NV-612.
Quote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 09:03:23 AM14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
NJ 495.
Quote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 09:03:23 AM14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
I've always been a fan of this nicely-trimmed and perfectly symmetrical tree along MD 200 (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0965131,-77.0332597,3a,75y,35.22h,92.02t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sCTAqXVaTKCUSOMWSUEtUCg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-2.015138079652928%26panoid%3DCTAqXVaTKCUSOMWSUEtUCg%26yaw%3D35.215937330057194!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) that is taller and immediately stands out from the surrounding trees. It instantly catches my eye every time I drive by!
Quote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 09:03:23 AM14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
IN-912 (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6494779,-87.4627311,3a,75y,47.17h,86.08t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sXnZpByY5tqoIu_CX1N9H4g!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D3.9172709866515447%26panoid%3DXnZpByY5tqoIu_CX1N9H4g%26yaw%3D47.16617758124558!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)
Quote from: I-55 on August 14, 2025, 12:51:40 PMIN-912
ooooohhh... That sure fits the spirit of the thread!
NYS reference route 913J (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6207748,-73.7778486,3a,75y,359.81h,75.27t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1strq4FO9nlMBrMEdgLmK-XA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D14.73109122421063%26panoid%3Dtrq4FO9nlMBrMEdgLmK-XA%26yaw%3D359.8064616480199!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) (yep, that's the route!)
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 14, 2025, 10:15:08 AMQuote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 10:03:20 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on August 14, 2025, 09:53:17 AMUT-298
I don't know, man. From the looks of it, you should actually be able to see the mountains from at least half of that route.
Fine, fine. NV-612.
There is something nice about a suburban area with mountains in the distance, isn't there? It's one of the things I love about driving in the Hudson Valley.
Quote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 09:03:23 AM14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
LA-627 (https://www.google.com/maps/@30.003888,-90.3927348,3a,63.4y,216.36h,85.91t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sdkont65tm-ewDySDqigRUQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D4.085716718465122%26panoid%3Ddkont65tm-ewDySDqigRUQ%26yaw%3D216.36064392086325!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) is a real beautiful Southern belle.
CA-185 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/vQKBHR6ZMXbid9zQ9), if you appreciate public art.
Quote from: cockroachking on August 14, 2025, 02:19:13 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 09:03:23 AM14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
LA-627 (https://www.google.com/maps/@30.003888,-90.3927348,3a,63.4y,216.36h,85.91t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sdkont65tm-ewDySDqigRUQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D4.085716718465122%26panoid%3Ddkont65tm-ewDySDqigRUQ%26yaw%3D216.36064392086325!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) is a real beautiful Southern belle.
It's a
refinery drive on a rainy day.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51419962144_192c7eb214_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mkNKis)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51419453348_a0f3538730_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mkL947)
Quote from: formulanone on August 14, 2025, 03:46:34 PMQuote from: cockroachking on August 14, 2025, 02:19:13 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 09:03:23 AM14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
LA-627 (https://www.google.com/maps/@30.003888,-90.3927348,3a,63.4y,216.36h,85.91t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sdkont65tm-ewDySDqigRUQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D4.085716718465122%26panoid%3Ddkont65tm-ewDySDqigRUQ%26yaw%3D216.36064392086325!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) is a real beautiful Southern belle.
It's a (re)fine(ry) drive.
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Play the theme of Oil Ocean Zone and becomes sublime.
In a similar vein.
CO265 (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7988709,-104.9506443,3a,75y,57.42h,83.52t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sdbhUi2_vyYBDgwZqYOQCLQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D6.480473551328501%26panoid%3DdbhUi2_vyYBDgwZqYOQCLQ%26yaw%3D57.41538826629629!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)
Nah, chemical plants are still scenery, just man-made scenery.
I propose instead TX 65, (https://maps.app.goo.gl/rCX4gXJHZb2XW5Pr8) which has the scenery of lost hopes and dreams.
Quote from: CoreySamson on August 14, 2025, 04:52:51 PMNah, chemical plants are still scenery, just man-made scenery.
I propose instead TX 65, (https://maps.app.goo.gl/rCX4gXJHZb2XW5Pr8) which has the scenery of lost hopes and dreams.
That's at least nice and green. More lost hope and dreams on something like CO116 (https://www.google.com/maps/@37.5571115,-102.4897298,3a,75y,85.71h,86.98t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1ss7R8G4yc2PpXej0R6-sHYw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D3.023746393010782%26panoid%3Ds7R8G4yc2PpXej0R6-sHYw%26yaw%3D85.71095185803614!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D).
Louisiana 57 is fascinatingly blank...
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Quote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 09:03:23 AM14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
TX 165 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/QTWbkRqNSTX6tMNZ6)
Quote from: NE2 on August 14, 2025, 06:30:23 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 09:03:23 AM14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
TX 165 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/QTWbkRqNSTX6tMNZ6)
I visited this a long time ago when I was in Austin but I wasn't taking road pictures back then. I would love to have this highway on my page as a highlight blog feature. I told my wife that whenever we visit her Cousin that TX 165 is a priority.
Quote from: JayhawkCO on August 14, 2025, 05:19:03 PMThat's at least nice and green. More lost hope and dreams on something like CO116 (https://www.google.com/maps/@37.5571115,-102.4897298,3a,75y,85.71h,86.98t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1ss7R8G4yc2PpXej0R6-sHYw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D3.023746393010782%26panoid%3Ds7R8G4yc2PpXej0R6-sHYw%26yaw%3D85.71095185803614!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D).
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQxK_1EuDgTce7tp7ZlfC8G9AoGxvfqw-LT9Q&sp)
Quote from: formulanone on August 14, 2025, 06:52:22 PMQuote from: JayhawkCO on August 14, 2025, 05:19:03 PMThat's at least nice and green. More lost hope and dreams on something like CO116 (https://www.google.com/maps/@37.5571115,-102.4897298,3a,75y,85.71h,86.98t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1ss7R8G4yc2PpXej0R6-sHYw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D3.023746393010782%26panoid%3Ds7R8G4yc2PpXej0R6-sHYw%26yaw%3D85.71095185803614!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D).
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:wave: I get it! I get it!
Quote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 07:35:15 PMQuote from: formulanone on August 14, 2025, 06:52:22 PMQuote from: JayhawkCO on August 14, 2025, 05:19:03 PMThat's at least nice and green. More lost hope and dreams on something like CO116 (https://www.google.com/maps/@37.5571115,-102.4897298,3a,75y,85.71h,86.98t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1ss7R8G4yc2PpXej0R6-sHYw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D3.023746393010782%26panoid%3Ds7R8G4yc2PpXej0R6-sHYw%26yaw%3D85.71095185803614!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D).
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:wave: I get it! I get it!
They just had to add the 'e' to ruin the cool name.
NM-172 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/vPXY5TAjeSNZDVyA8) is pretty far up toward the top of my bucket list, along with TX-128 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/eEcpAsDx7n2FZ5Yu5).
Quote from: vdeane on August 14, 2025, 12:59:04 PMNYS reference route 913J (https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6207748,-73.7778486,3a,75y,359.81h,75.27t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1strq4FO9nlMBrMEdgLmK-XA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D14.73109122421063%26panoid%3Dtrq4FO9nlMBrMEdgLmK-XA%26yaw%3D359.8064616480199!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) (yep, that's the route!)
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 14, 2025, 10:15:08 AMQuote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 10:03:20 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on August 14, 2025, 09:53:17 AMUT-298
I don't know, man. From the looks of it, you should actually be able to see the mountains from at least half of that route.
Fine, fine. NV-612.
There is something nice about a suburban area with mountains in the distance, isn't there? It's one of the things I love about driving in the Hudson Valley.
The abandoned retail stores, barbed wire at the air force base, and smells from the sewage treatment plant all add to the experience.
Quote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 09:03:23 AM14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
NC-149. Used to be incredible scenery (somewhere) until they hauled some of it to this pulp mill (https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8505366,-76.7730319,3a,49.9y,336.94h,86.93t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sE2vd3_otPbmT27Wg2G3QAA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D3.0670941763420103%26panoid%3DE2vd3_otPbmT27Wg2G3QAA%26yaw%3D336.94286124073346!7i3328!8i1664?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D).
Quote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 09:03:23 AM14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
The AZ and OK sections of the old Route 66.
Quote from: Henry on August 14, 2025, 09:24:24 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 09:03:23 AM14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
The AZ and OK sections of the old Route 66.
I assume the OK sections are about as lovely as I-40, but AZ?
Quote from: pderocco on August 14, 2025, 10:43:39 PMQuote from: Henry on August 14, 2025, 09:24:24 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 14, 2025, 09:03:23 AM14 AUG 2025
Q: What state route in the USA has the best scenery?
The AZ and OK sections of the old Route 66.
I assume the OK sections are about as lovely as I-40, but AZ?
AZ 66 and Oatman Highway have some pretty top-notch high desert scenery. Even the historic segments of US 66 obliterated or replaced by I-40 on the Colorado Plateau look pretty nice in vintage photos.
8/15/25: What city has the best pedestrian features along their roadways?
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 15, 2025, 11:00:59 AM8/15/25: What city has the best pedestrian features along their roadways?
Iqaluit
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 15, 2025, 11:00:59 AM8/15/25: What city has the best pedestrian features along their roadways?
Barrow, Alaska.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 15, 2025, 11:00:59 AM8/15/25: What city has the best pedestrian features along their roadways?
Longyearbyen. The features? Polar bears.
Second answer: Pripyat.
Quote from: JayhawkCO on August 15, 2025, 11:33:46 AMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on August 15, 2025, 11:00:59 AM8/15/25: What city has the best pedestrian features along their roadways?
Longyearbyen. The features? Polar bears.
I see that as a feature and not a bug. Polar bears encourage constant vigilance and promote time efficiency.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 15, 2025, 11:35:28 AMPolar bears encourage constant vigilance and promote time efficiency.
They can also keep you warm in a winter emergency situation.
Quote from: kphoger on August 15, 2025, 11:36:16 AMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on August 15, 2025, 11:35:28 AMPolar bears encourage constant vigilance and promote time efficiency.
They can also keep you warm in a winter emergency situation.
Because warm blood is an insulator.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 15, 2025, 11:00:59 AM8/15/25: What city has the best pedestrian features along their roadways?
Artesia Wells, TX (https://maps.app.goo.gl/if7yWqSX4SNs7WyW6)
Quote from: kphoger on August 15, 2025, 11:47:58 AMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on August 15, 2025, 11:00:59 AM8/15/25: What city has the best pedestrian features along their roadways?
Artesia Wells, TX (https://maps.app.goo.gl/if7yWqSX4SNs7WyW6)
Do they actually have room for wells plural?
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 15, 2025, 11:00:59 AM8/15/25: What city has the best pedestrian features along their roadways?
Washington DC: the National Guard.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 15, 2025, 11:00:59 AM8/15/25: What city has the best pedestrian features along their roadways?
Chicago, on the Magnificent Mile.
8/16/25: Why does interstate road work take several years to complete?
Quote from: I-55 on August 16, 2025, 01:21:15 PM8/16/25: Why does interstate road work take several years to complete?
DOT agencies are staffed by internet trolls who savor the amusement of stringing out agitating commuters for the maximum amount of time possible.
Quote from: I-55 on August 16, 2025, 01:21:15 PM8/16/25: Why does interstate road work take several years to complete?
Because if it got done sooner, there wouldn't be so much appreciation it when it was done.
Quote from: I-55 on August 16, 2025, 01:21:15 PM8/16/25: Why does interstate road work take several years to complete?
Or maybe, because they haven't finished the design work on the next 3 miles that will be rebuilt, and they want to make sure that the next project is worked on directly after the previous.
Quote from: I-55 on August 16, 2025, 01:21:15 PM8/16/25: Why does interstate road work take several years to complete?
There's always lot of dirt to sift through when constructing a highway of any sort. Since dirt frequently naps, compelling it work harder becomes more taxing on supervisors, leading to job burnout. Couple that with the confusion between "naps" and "maps" and you can start to understand why the process seems to take 5-20 years, which is infinitesimal compared to building your own mountain range from scratch.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 15, 2025, 11:00:59 AM8/15/25: What city has the best pedestrian features along their roadways?
Oklahoma City. Rather than a hard, ugly concrete sidewalk, you are often provided with a linear meadow of lush foliage.
Quote from: I-55 on August 16, 2025, 01:21:15 PM8/16/25: Why does interstate road work take several years to complete?
Because of the length of time it takes to get waivers for the "one mile straight in every five" requirement. Every project requires a new waiver and, well, have you
seen Congress?
Quote from: I-55 on August 16, 2025, 01:21:15 PM8/16/25: Why does interstate road work take several years to complete?
The roadbed has more layers than surface roads.
Quote from: I-55 on August 16, 2025, 01:21:15 PM8/16/25: Why does interstate road work take several years to complete?
The governor's brother rents cones to the DOT by the hour.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 15, 2025, 11:00:59 AM8/15/25: What city has the best pedestrian features along their roadways?
Houston. Enjoy your narrow overgrown busted up sidewalk 6 inches from the road.
Quote from: I-55 on August 16, 2025, 01:21:15 PM8/16/25: Why does interstate road work take several years to complete?
The US government.
Quote from: CoreySamson on August 16, 2025, 07:11:38 PMQuote from: I-55 on August 16, 2025, 01:21:15 PM8/16/25: Why does interstate road work take several years to complete?
The US government.
I thought you were supposed to give bad answers?
Quote from: I-55 on August 16, 2025, 01:21:15 PM8/16/25: Why does interstate road work take several years to complete?
It takes a while to bring the workers and equipment in because of all the construction traffic.
Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on August 16, 2025, 08:39:29 PMQuote from: I-55 on August 16, 2025, 01:21:15 PM8/16/25: Why does interstate road work take several years to complete?
It takes a while to bring the workers and equipment in because of all the construction traffic.
They politely wait for themselves to finish before starting, which I can respect.
Quote from: I-55 on August 16, 2025, 01:21:15 PM8/16/25: Why does interstate road work take several years to complete?
Quote from: CoreySamson on August 16, 2025, 07:11:38 PMThe US government.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 16, 2025, 07:24:48 PMI thought you were supposed to give bad answers?
What do you mean? He didn't even make a complete thought. Perfectly bad answer.
2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Nothing. That's a
great place to have car trouble, much better than having it
on the road.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Call ICE.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Park aside the car while still on the road.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Stop and give them a hand. After they ask you to stop clapping, leave.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Honk at them, loud and long, for some perceived wrongdoing that annoys you.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Stop and offer to play them "Hearts on Fire" while they attempt to change their tire.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Blast down the shoulder at high speed trying to pass the slower traffic that resulted from the stopped car. Of course, this will result in there being two stopped cars, but what do you care? You passed all those suckers who were too stupid to use the shoulder.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Slash your own tire and pull over so they don't feel so lonely.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Pull over and lecture them on the merits of preventative vehicle maintenance.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Buy them a new car.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Make a tiktok with the Oh No song and robot voice: "P O V. You are hav ing car trou ble on the side of the road. Keep watch ing to the end."
Quote from: GaryV on August 18, 2025, 06:42:21 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Honk at them, loud and long, for some perceived wrongdoing that annoys you.
Adding to this: Then post a video of it online. And complain bitterly when people criticize you for honking at them.
8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
the Lock Bridge, where nobody is allowed through because it's locked
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
The two existing approaches should remain in place but should simply be extended a bit further out over the water, and the road to either side should be realigned to provide a longer straightaway on approach so that drivers can build up the necessary speed to jump the gap in the style of Bo and Luke Duke.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
A tunnel. :bigass:
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 19, 2025, 08:09:56 AMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
The two existing approaches should remain in place but should simply be extended a bit further out over the water, and the road to either side should be realigned to provide a longer straightaway on approach so that drivers can build up the necessary speed to jump the gap in the style of Bo and Luke Duke.
Except that never worked for Sheriff Rosco.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
A whirlpool which would function as an open water roundabout.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
A floating bridge for I-695, and then put the shipping channel onto a canal aqueduct crossing over the floating bridge. That way, nothing for ships to hit or cause to catch fire.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
Climate change. All the keys are now under water making the bridge moot.
Quote from: wanderer2575 on August 19, 2025, 08:53:11 AMQuote from: 1995hoo on August 19, 2025, 08:09:56 AMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
The two existing approaches should remain in place but should simply be extended a bit further out over the water, and the road to either side should be realigned to provide a longer straightaway on approach so that drivers can build up the necessary speed to jump the gap in the style of Bo and Luke Duke.
Except that never worked for Sheriff Rosco.
Doesn't that just underscore that my answer is not a good one? And isn't the goal of the thread to give a bad answer?
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 19, 2025, 10:24:00 AMQuote from: wanderer2575 on August 19, 2025, 08:53:11 AMQuote from: 1995hoo on August 19, 2025, 08:09:56 AMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
The two existing approaches should remain in place but should simply be extended a bit further out over the water, and the road to either side should be realigned to provide a longer straightaway on approach so that drivers can build up the necessary speed to jump the gap in the style of Bo and Luke Duke.
Except that never worked for Sheriff Rosco.
Doesn't that just underscore that my answer is not a good one? And isn't the goal of the thread to give a bad answer?
That's just a little bit more than the law would allow.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
The trampoline mushrooms from Mario Kart
Quote from: formulanone on August 19, 2025, 10:34:42 AMQuote from: 1995hoo on August 19, 2025, 10:24:00 AMQuote from: wanderer2575 on August 19, 2025, 08:53:11 AMQuote from: 1995hoo on August 19, 2025, 08:09:56 AMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
The two existing approaches should remain in place but should simply be extended a bit further out over the water, and the road to either side should be realigned to provide a longer straightaway on approach so that drivers can build up the necessary speed to jump the gap in the style of Bo and Luke Duke.
Except that never worked for Sheriff Rosco.
Doesn't that just underscore that my answer is not a good one? And isn't the goal of the thread to give a bad answer?
That's just a little bit more than the law would allow.
Wouldn't change if I could.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
The Key Fob Bridge.
The Key roller coaster
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
All traffic will be required to drive the submarine car from James Bond.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
The old Seven Mile Bridge.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
The Password Bridge, which has to be rebuilt every 90 days (although most of the time Maryland just changes out one structural member and calls it good).
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 19, 2025, 07:59:01 AM8/19/2025: What would should the Key Bridge be replaced by?
Absolutely nothing; the loop is permanently severed because of this.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Quote from: Sapphuby on August 18, 2025, 09:16:24 AMSlash your own tire and pull over ...
Preferably not in that order. Or was that part of making it the 'worst' answer?
20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:13:07 AM20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
to change them to show their distance from the mother highway: I-86.
Turn the down flowing direction to read upside down.
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:13:07 AM20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
... advertising.
A panel is added above the traditional mile marker with space for a corporate logo. Companies bid each year for ad space on a given highway stretch's mile markers, and the money goes toward highway improvement projects.
(https://i.imgur.com/QUvdRDY_d.png?maxwidth=520&shape=thumb&fidelity=high)
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:13:07 AM20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
Placing the mile number at a 90 degree angle to the rest of the sign.
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:13:07 AM20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
Each direction's "mile 0" would be located at the beginning of the route in that direction with markers ascending in the direction of traffic. So northbound would have mile 0 at the south end and increase as you head north, and southbound would have mile 0 at the north end and increase as you head south. Exit numbers would be adjusted accordingly.
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:54:33 AM... advertising.
Nevada is already almost there.
(https://i.imgur.com/717InfM.jpeg)
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:12:28 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Quote from: Sapphuby on August 18, 2025, 09:16:24 AMSlash your own tire and pull over ...
Preferably not in that order. Or was that part of making it the 'worst' answer?
If you consider damaging your own rims...
Quote from: vdeane on August 20, 2025, 12:44:19 PMEach direction's "mile 0" would be located at the beginning of the route in that direction with markers ascending in the direction of traffic. So northbound would have mile 0 at the south end and increase as you head north, and southbound would have mile 0 at the north end and increase as you head south. Exit numbers would be adjusted accordingly.
If you reverse that, it's actually not that bad. If every highway counted down to zero, that would be handy.
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:13:07 AM20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
Converting them to APL signs.
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:13:07 AM20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
Making the sign about 75% smaller so that you have a harder time reading them but it's more affordable to mass produce.
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:13:07 AM20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
Metric.
Quote from: GaryV on August 20, 2025, 01:09:47 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:13:07 AM20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
Metric.
Specifically, changing all "mile markers" to "meter markers" and placing them on all highways at one meter intervals. Followed immediately by changing all US speed limits from miles per hour to meters per hour, because who doesn't want to drive 100,000?
Quote from: ModernDayWarrior on August 20, 2025, 01:28:08 PMSpecifically, changing all "mile markers" to "meter markers" and placing them on all highways at one meter intervals.
Nah. Convert them to meter markers, but post them every 128 meters. That way, people will have an easier transition by just remembering that there are 25 meter markers per two-mile stretch.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Slow down to 20 mph and stare at them as you go by. If nobody is already assisting, then come to a complete stop within your travel lane and ask them if they need any help. After passing by, immediately accelerate to the speed limit.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 18, 2025, 01:51:24 AM2025-08-18: What should you do if you see someone having car trouble on the side of the road?
Come to a stop in the travel lane, roll down the window, and boo them.
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:13:07 AM20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
Use Roman Numerals.
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:13:07 AM20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
To sign them in binary code.
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:13:07 AM20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
By limiting their size to 3"x5" max and requiring the state-names to be written-out across them in bold Series F.
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:13:07 AM20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
Giving each one a descriptive name in the style of the names of
Friends episodes (e.g., "The One with ____," "The One Where ____," etc.) to be used instead of numbers. So, for example, if your car breaks down on southbound I-95 in Virginia and you call for roadside assistance, you tell them, "I'm at the One Just South of Kings Dominion." Or on southbound I-75 near Naples, "I'm at the One with the Toll Plaza."
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 20, 2025, 09:34:28 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:13:07 AM20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
Giving each one a descriptive name in the style of the names of Friends episodes (e.g., "The One with ____," "The One Where ____," etc.) to be used instead of numbers. So, for example, if your car breaks down on southbound I-95 in Virginia and you call for roadside assistance, you tell them, "I'm at the One Just South of Kings Dominion." Or on southbound I-75 near Naples, "I'm at the One with the Toll Plaza."
US 95 in Nevada...
"The One With the Sand"
"The Other One With the Sand"
"The Other One With Yet More Sand"
"The One With the Mountain"
"The One With the Other, More Jaggedy Mountain"
"The One You Can See Area 51 From, Oh No Wait, That's Mercury"
"The One With the Clown Motel"
"The One With Holy Shit This One Has A Lake Somehow"
Quote from: kphoger on August 20, 2025, 11:13:07 AM20 AUG 2025:
One improvement to US mile markers that could be implemented immediately would be ________.
... to add Braille, for ADA compliance.
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 20, 2025, 09:34:28 PMa descriptive name in the style of the names of Friends episodes (e.g., "The One with ____," "The One Where ____," etc.)
That thread about doing this with 2dis suddenly makes more sense...
21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Labubus and Starbucks tumblers
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Dinner plates. Insurance companies will be required to include the value of replacing fine china, should someone choose to use it, as part of the damages associated with crashes.
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
A self-policing AI feature built into every car. In the event a motorist violates any traffic law, even slightly, it will restrain the driver, drive the car to the nearest police officer, surrender the driver, and provide the cop with sufficient evidence to ensure conviction.
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Quote from: xonhulu on August 21, 2025, 01:24:11 PMself-policing AI feature built into every car. In the event a motorist violates any traffic law, even slightly, it will restrain the driver, drive the car to the nearest police officer, surrender the driver, and provide the cop with sufficient evidence to ensure conviction.
I think this is needed, as long as we still get paper registration receipts.
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Nothing. It's all common law now.
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Selfies of the owner.
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Whatever the fuck those things "sovereign citizens" like(d) to put on their cars were.
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Lotso.
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Quote from: NE2 on August 21, 2025, 02:12:14 PMLotso.
No, no, the idea is to come up with the
worst possible answer, not the
best.
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Those fake license plates with first names that kids put on their bicycles. Much like that episode of
Seinfeld where Elaine suggests that all New York City residents should wear name tags, this will make our highways friendlier.
Quote from: ModernDayWarrior on August 21, 2025, 02:20:25 PMThose fake license plates with first names that kids put on their bicycles.
I have early childhood memories of making my own license plates for my Big Wheel. Did anyone else do this?
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Goats.
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Tapping.
(https://cdn-icons-png.flaticon.com/128/14189/14189325.png)
Quote from: freebrickproductions on August 21, 2025, 01:54:34 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Whatever the fuck those things "sovereign citizens" like(d) to put on their cars were.
People who have confused the novelty section of a Stuckey's with the play Hamilton, in conjunction with their fascination for exploding metal penises.
Quote from: formulanone on August 21, 2025, 02:49:00 PMPeople who have confused the novelty section of a Stuckey's with the play Hamilton, in conjunction with their fascination for exploding metal penises.
How could anyone possibly find an exploding metal penis anything
BUT fascinating?
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PMLicense plates should be done away with, replaced by
A loudspeaker that plays a recording loop of the TikTok text-to-speech voice saying the registration number.
Quote from: pderocco on August 21, 2025, 02:44:48 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Tapping.
(https://cdn-icons-png.flaticon.com/128/14189/14189325.png)
Gives new meaning to "I'd tap that." :hmm:
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Lasagna, or pasta dish of choice
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
... the actual registration receipt, affixed to the bumper, protected from the elements by one of these:
(https://i.imgur.com/c7XaSQM.png)
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Painting your social security number on your bumper.
Quote from: Sapphuby on August 21, 2025, 01:48:48 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Nothing. It's all common law now.
Except classic cars which, due to their relative scarcity, fall under uncommon law.
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
"Y'all get license plates?" -Las Vegas, probably
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Toll transponders mounted on the plate holder.
Quote from: kphoger on August 21, 2025, 12:45:21 PM21 AUG 2025:
License plates should be done away with, replaced by ________.
Your name, phone number, and likeness, akin to miniature attorney advertisements. Preferably holding a hammer, giving a stern appearance, or perhaps the look of lips smacking at the thought of a big payout. At the bottom will be the requisite tiny text proclaiming who will really represent you in a court of law or perhaps at a food court.
22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
Note: Bear in mind that the eastern endpoint of I-70 is NOT the Security Blvd Park & Ride. Google Maps is wrong. The route was truncated to I-695 back in 2014. I-70 has not come within 1½ miles of Baltimore city limits for eleven years now. Of course, I'm sure everyone already knew that.
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
Sacramento, South Lake Tahoe, Ely, Salina, Salina, Midway, Vandalia, Vandalia, Licking View, Washington, JCT PA TURNPIKE, Halfway, Almost Baltimore But Not Quite, Francis Scott Key Tunnel, MILFord, Milton, Cape May
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
Note: Bear in mind that the eastern endpoint of I-70 is NOT the Security Blvd Park & Ride. Google Maps is wrong. The route was truncated to I-695 back in 2014. I-70 has not come within 1½ miles of Baltimore city limits for eleven years now. Of course, I'm sure everyone already knew that.
Ely, Tonopah, Mammoth Lakes and Los Banos.
Oh wait, that actually was once seriously considered...
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
The Desert, Long Tunnel, Narrow Tunnel, Breezewood, Canceled Freeways, Collapsed Bridge. Nobody's trying to get anywhere else anyway.
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
Quote from: I-55 on August 22, 2025, 09:41:52 AMThe Desert, Long Tunnel, Narrow Tunnel, Breezewood, Canceled Freeways, Collapsed Bridge. Nobody's trying to get anywhere else anyway.
Ouch! Two exits in Baltimore.
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
I think I originally made this back during the HighwayStar days and still had it saved:
(https://i.imgur.com/uMBJVFg.jpeg)
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AMNote: Bear in mind that the eastern endpoint of I-70 is NOT the Security Blvd Park & Ride. Google Maps is wrong. The route was truncated to I-695 back in 2014. I-70 has not come within 1½ miles of Baltimore city limits for eleven years now. Of course, I'm sure everyone already knew that.
Weirdly enough, Google Maps is halfway there - if you zoom in on the piece between I-695 and the Park & Ride, it'll then show MD 570 (the official unsigned designation) alongside I-70.
(https://i.imgur.com/je0qT1L.jpeg)
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
WestboundWashington County
Pennsylvania and Other Great Lakes States
Washington County
West Virginia, Ohio, and Points West
Ohio and Other East North Central States
Preble County
Indiana and Other Plains States
Vigo County
Illinois and Other Midwestern States
St Clair County
Missouri and Other Central States
Jackson County
Kansas and Other Western States
Sherman County
Colorado and Other Mountain States
Mesa County
Utah and Other Desert States
Beaver County
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
Eastbound:
Limon
West Baltimore
Central Baltimore
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
Mormons
Marijuana
Barbeque
River
Ohio
Washingtons
Crabs
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 22, 2025, 09:29:35 AM... Salina, Salina ... Vandalia, Vandalia ...
By the way, these are my favorites so far.
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
Note: Bear in mind that the eastern endpoint of I-70 is NOT the Security Blvd Park & Ride. Google Maps is wrong. The route was truncated to I-695 back in 2014. I-70 has not come within 1½ miles of Baltimore city limits for eleven years now. Of course, I'm sure everyone already knew that.
Eastbound:
Rockies
Monarchs
Royals
Cardinals
Indians
Dragons
Clippers
Keys
TO Iron Birds and TO Baysox
(As to that last one, I'm making sure to observe kphoger's admonition! :bigass: )
Westbound:
Reverse all of those and use TO Bees as the westernmost one.
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
EastboundMack
Kanorado
Wentzville
West Terre Haute
Chester
West Alexander
Warfordsburg
Fort Armistead
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 10:06:37 AMWestbound
Washington County
Pennsylvania and Other Great Lakes States
Washington County
West Virginia, Ohio, and Points West
Ohio and Other East North Central States
Preble County
Indiana and Other Plains States
Vigo County
Illinois and Other Midwestern States
St Clair County
Missouri and Other Central States
Jackson County
Kansas and Other Western States
Sherman County
Colorado and Other Mountain States
Mesa County
Utah and Other Desert States
Beaver County
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=svk.i070
Kralovany
Dolný Kubín
Quote from: NE2 on August 22, 2025, 11:38:10 AMhttps://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=svk.i070
Kralovany
Dolný Kubín
I said "new and improved". Those are already the control cities.
1 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/N1iXcWKo1tnjWcxq7) ,
2 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/iXPfmdT3SWwcdoFz9)
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 11:45:34 AMQuote from: NE2 on August 22, 2025, 11:38:10 AMhttps://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=svk.i070
Kralovany
Dolný Kubín
I said "new and improved". Those are already the control cities.
1 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/N1iXcWKo1tnjWcxq7) , 2 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/iXPfmdT3SWwcdoFz9)
Doesn't that mean his answer is a bad answer, then?
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 22, 2025, 12:13:54 PMDoesn't that mean his answer is a bad answer, then?
Well, I suppose, technically, he did change Kra
ľovany to Kra
lovany, meaning that his proposed change does nothing but show mild disrespect to the Slovak language.
So, yeah, I agree, it's a bad answer.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 22, 2025, 09:29:35 AMQuote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
Sacramento, South Lake Tahoe, Ely, Salina, Salina, Midway, Vandalia, Vandalia, Licking View, Washington, JCT PA TURNPIKE, Halfway, Almost Baltimore But Not Quite, Francis Scott Key Tunnel, MILFord, Milton, Cape May
You say Saleena, I say Saleyena, you say Vandaylia, I say Vandahlia ...
Quote from: formulanone on August 22, 2025, 07:19:53 AMAt the bottom will be the requisite tiny text proclaiming who will really represent you in a court of law or perhaps at a food court.
I think I'm going to call those "the court of food" from now on.
Quote from: pderocco on August 22, 2025, 01:51:22 PMSaleyena
To my eyes, used to reading Spanish words, that looks like...
sall-eh-YEH-nah
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
How about Sulphurdale for westbound, and Woodlawn for eastbound. That way, they could mass produce the signs, and use them everywhere.
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 01:56:11 PMQuote from: pderocco on August 22, 2025, 01:51:22 PMSaleyena
To my eyes, used to reading Spanish words, that looks like...
sall-eh-YEH-nah
I should have written, sa-LIE-na.
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
All signs read "Just look at a map, idiot!"
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 01:54:27 PMQuote from: formulanone on August 22, 2025, 07:19:53 AMAt the bottom will be the requisite tiny text proclaiming who will really represent you in a court of law or perhaps at a food court.
I think I'm going to call those "the court of food" from now on.
Only in Sbarro™ Oblast.
Brought to you by the Riddler of Batman fame.
(https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zCtM7AcHtLwUYNJkQKm54i.jpg)
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
EASTBOUND
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Salt Lake City
Psych, You Shoulda Stayed On I-15 For That
Moore
Fruita
Rifle
The Last Five Guys for 500 Miles
Pre-Pre Limon
Pre-Limon
Limon
Still Limon
Post-Limon Villages
WaKeeney
Wamego
Interstate 470
Basehor
Interstate 435
Exits 2A-2Z
Interstate 435 Again
Interstate 470 But Not The Kansas One
Stuff That Got Blown Up in the 1983 TV Movie "The Day After"
Kingdom City
Foristell
This O'Fallon, Not the Other One
A Different Little Suburb Every 500 Feet
East St. Louis
Effingham
Effingcorn
Montrose
Kansas (Not the State)
Martinsville
Marshall
US 40
Terre Haute (Don't Worry, Columbia House is Out of Business)
Carmel (via I-465)
Richmond
Huber Heights
Cincinnati/Cleveland/Columbus
New Concord
Yet Another I-470
Wheeling
Still Wheeling
Someplace in PA You're Not Actually Going To
Breezewood
Interstate 68
Baltiwashimore
WESTBOUND
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Pennsylvania?
Interstate 99
The Exit For Pittsburgh
0.03% of West Virginia
Nothing
Columbus
Interstate 73
Muncie
Effingham
Troy
Maryville
Fairmont City
North St Louis
St. Charles County
Sweet Springs
Interstate 435
Wichita
Topeka
Desert Cities
***LIMON***
There Isn't Another Five Guys Going This Direction So You're SOL
Vail (NOTE: $74.99 Charge For Reading This Sign)
Parachute
Moore
East Cove Fort Heights
East Cove Fort
Cove Fort
Salt Lake City/Pretending You're Not Going to Los Angeles
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
Limon
Not Limon
:bigass:
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
WB:
I-81
West Virginia
I-79
West Virginia
I-77
Circleville
New Lisbon
I-865 via I-465
I-57
East Saint Louis
Kingdom City
US 24
Homer KS
Kanorado
Limon
Broomfield
Beaver UT
EB:
Broomfield
Limon
Kanorado
Homer KS
US 69
Marshall Junction
O'Fallon IL/MO
I-74 via I-57
South Bend
New Lisbon
Circleville
I-77
West Virginia
I-79
West Virginia
Security Boulevard Park and Ride
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
This should give new meaning to "the old college try":
Utes
Bison
Jayhawks
Tigers
Fighting Illini
Hoosiers
Buckeyes
Mountaineers
Nittany Lions
Terps
Quote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
Quote from: Mav94 on August 22, 2025, 08:26:07 PMWESTBOUND
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Cove Fort
A truly awful idea indeed!
23 AUG 2025
Interstate 99 should be re-designated as _________________
Quote from: xonhulu on August 23, 2025, 12:07:25 PM23 AUG 2025
Interstate 99 should be re-designated as _________________
I-999
Quote from: xonhulu on August 23, 2025, 12:07:25 PM23 AUG 2025
Interstate 99 should be re-designated as _________________
I-338
[name of most recent Little League World Series winner] Parkway, with the name changing each year, and trucks banned due to the parkway designation
Quote from: xonhulu on August 23, 2025, 12:07:25 PM23 AUG 2025
Interstate 99 should be re-designated as _________________
PA 26 Truck Alternate
Quote from: xonhulu on August 23, 2025, 12:07:25 PM23 AUG 2025
Interstate 99 should be re-designated as _________________
Bud Shuster Memorial Porkway
Quote from: xonhulu on August 23, 2025, 12:07:25 PM23 AUG 2025
Interstate 99 should be re-designated as _________________
A rerouting of I-70. In addition to ending the Breezewood travesty once and for all (by replacing it with another Breezewood), this would also ensure that I-70 truly does not serve Baltimore.
Quote from: xonhulu on August 23, 2025, 12:07:25 PM23 AUG 2025
Interstate 99 should be re-designated as _________________
Jerry Sandusky Memorial Highway
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 23, 2025, 12:16:36 PM[name of most recent Little League World Series winner] Parkway, with the name changing each year, and trucks banned due to the parkway designation
Summerlin Parkway allows trucks, though.
Quote from: xonhulu on August 23, 2025, 12:07:25 PM23 AUG 2025
Interstate 99 should be re-designated as _________________
\0
Square root of -1, aka I-i
Quote from: xonhulu on August 23, 2025, 12:07:25 PM23 AUG 2025
Interstate 99 should be re-designated as _________________
I-79 3/5. But have every other shield read I-79.6 to help build stronger fraction/decimal conversion skills.
Quote from: xonhulu on August 23, 2025, 12:07:25 PM23 AUG 2025
Interstate 99 should be re-designated as _________________
Québec Route 366.
24 AUG 2025:
Your truck is 13 feet tall and the bridge sign says 12 feet 11 inches. What should you do?
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 24, 2025, 09:26:51 AM24 AUG 2025:
Your truck is 13 feet tall and the bridge sign says 12 feet 11 inches. What should you do?
Take down the sign.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 24, 2025, 09:26:51 AM24 AUG 2025:
Your truck is 13 feet tall and the bridge sign says 12 feet 11 inches. What should you do?
Speed up so you have enough momentum to make it through.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 24, 2025, 09:26:51 AM24 AUG 2025:
Your truck is 13 feet tall and the bridge sign says 12 feet 11 inches. What should you do?
Call the guy who runs the 11foot8 YouTube channel. When he arrives, floor it.
Quote from: ModernDayWarrior on August 23, 2025, 02:13:26 PMQuote from: xonhulu on August 23, 2025, 12:07:25 PM23 AUG 2025
Interstate 99 should be re-designated as _________________
Jerry Sandusky Memorial Highway
Not dead yet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sandusky).
Quote from: NE2 on August 24, 2025, 08:54:38 AMQuébec Route 366.
Number already taken (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?units=miles&u=oscar&r=qc.qc366), for a long route north of Ottawa.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 24, 2025, 09:26:51 AM24 AUG 2025:
Your truck is 13 feet tall and the bridge sign says 12 feet 11 inches. What should you do?
The Charleston.
I would imagine there are quite a few people out there who would be more than happy to render Jerry Sandusky memorial highway eligible.
Quote from: oscar on August 24, 2025, 10:25:19 AMQuote from: ModernDayWarrior on August 23, 2025, 02:13:26 PMQuote from: xonhulu on August 23, 2025, 12:07:25 PM23 AUG 2025
Interstate 99 should be re-designated as _________________
Jerry Sandusky Memorial Highway
Not dead yet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sandusky).
Neither is Liberty, but...
Quote from: oscar on August 24, 2025, 10:25:19 AMQuote from: NE2 on August 24, 2025, 08:54:38 AMQuébec Route 366.
Number already taken (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?units=miles&u=oscar&r=qc.qc366), for a long route north of Ottawa.
https://wiki.aaroads.com/wiki/Qu%C3%A9bec_Route_366
"In 2011, Google Maps mislabeled Quebec Route 366 as running concurrent with the entire length of U.S. Route 30 from Astoria, Oregon to Atlantic City, New Jersey."
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 24, 2025, 09:26:51 AM24 AUG 2025:
Your truck is 13 feet tall and the bridge sign says 12 feet 11 inches. What should you do?
Give yourself a few inches of extra room by using a tire jack to lift the bridge.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 24, 2025, 09:26:51 AM24 AUG 2025:
Your truck is 13 feet tall and the bridge sign says 12 feet 11 inches. What should you do?
Ehh, who measures these things anyway? The truck might have been measured too tall, the bridge too short. Go for it!
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 24, 2025, 09:26:51 AMYour truck is 13 feet tall and the bridge sign says 12 feet 11 inches. What should you do?
C4.
Paint some graffiti on the sign, rendering it unreadable
Pick up several fat passengers, then hit the gas.
Quote from: vdeane on August 23, 2025, 12:14:42 PMQuote from: xonhulu on August 23, 2025, 12:07:25 PM23 AUG 2025
Interstate 99 should be re-designated as _________________
I-999
Since I-999 has to be a spur of I-99, they'd have to create another I-99 nearby, so what's the point?
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 24, 2025, 09:26:51 AM24 AUG 2025:
Your truck is 13 feet tall and the bridge sign says 12 feet 11 inches. What should you do?
Wait until they raise the bridge.
Quote from: pderocco on August 24, 2025, 03:40:34 PMQuote from: vdeane on August 23, 2025, 12:14:42 PMQuote from: xonhulu on August 23, 2025, 12:07:25 PM23 AUG 2025
Interstate 99 should be re-designated as _________________
I-999
Since I-999 has to be a spur of I-99, they'd have to create another I-99 nearby, so what's the point?
I-238 says hi.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 24, 2025, 09:26:51 AM24 AUG 2025:
Your truck is 13 feet tall and the bridge sign says 12 feet 11 inches. What should you do?
Get some plywood, build a ramp, and drive over the bridge instead.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 24, 2025, 09:26:51 AM24 AUG 2025:
Your truck is 13 feet tall and the bridge sign says 12 feet 11 inches. What should you do?
Retract the convertible top on your truck.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 24, 2025, 09:26:51 AM24 AUG 2025:
Your truck is 13 feet tall and the bridge sign says 12 feet 11 inches. What should you do?
Chill the vehicle to approximately -157°C to allow for the contracting effect of all vehicular materials to compress just enough to comfortably glide under that pesky bridge. Be sure not to warm up too quickly, or a stress crack may form in the wooden dashboard trim.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 24, 2025, 09:26:51 AM24 AUG 2025:
Your truck is 13 feet tall and the bridge sign says 12 feet 11 inches. What should you do?
Get your gallon drum of WD-40 out of the vehicle's emergency kit (where you also keep air compressor, jumper cables, etc.), apply liberally to both the truck and the bridge, and slide on thru. Clean up afterward if you have the extra time, or pay it forward and leave applied for the next truck.
8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
US 630, clearly the most important US route in the system
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
I-895 (NY) - if I-180 (WY) gets to exist as a boulevard, why did we have to go thru the effort of redesignating I-895 to NY 895 when it was downgraded to a boulevard?
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
The portion of US-211 from Warrenton across Northern Virginia and into Washington, DC. Those of us who grew up hearing routine references to "29/211" would find it more natural to have the traditional nomenclature restored. Plus it would be useful to have a single route number connecting that city to the east to the actual Washington that claims to have been surveyed by the future president himself in 1749.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
US 99W, specifically along the Harbor Drive freeway through Portland, Oregon. The freeway really added to the riverfront's charm.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 24, 2025, 09:26:51 AM24 AUG 2025:
Your truck is 13 feet tall and the bridge sign says 12 feet 11 inches. What should you do?
Speed.
And you can take that one of two ways. Both are correct.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
US-80 west of Dallas should be revived all the way to San Diego. I think this is needed to make make US-80 a truly coat to cost highway.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
US 666, Crescent Jct to Douglas. I ain't afraid of no curse!
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
I-15-BL, Holden, Utah.
Furthermore, the [NO SERVICES] sign should be removed from the exit signs, because otherwise people won't realize that there are services at
Holden Cold Drinks (https://maps.app.goo.gl/QgD1SHTshvHs6MyV8).
US-60 and US-70 along Box Canyon Rd in Mecca CA. It's a much gentler grade than I-10, so it will be much better for the trucks.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
US 110 in Wisconsin.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
New England Route 2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_road_marking_system#Route_2), and every interchange should be converted to a single-point urban interchange.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
US-466 between Barstow and Kingman was obviously a vital part of the US highway system that could not hope to be replaced. It should be brought back. I think this is needed.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
PA 295 (now PA 297 (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0767932,-76.7617558,3a,44.9y,352.33h,91.53t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1syPL_gPySHhO-IuWiW7zwjQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-1.528891774844439%26panoid%3DyPL_gPySHhO-IuWiW7zwjQ%26yaw%3D352.33171193542603!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)) - plenty of other states manage to have state routes & interstates with the same number, why not PA too? If it would ease PennDOT's concerns, they could post signs along I-83 similar to the MD 68/I-68 sign (https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6531264,-77.9073433,3a,37.6y,289.86h,93.02t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sVhhQZKCAjtlV2vhCeIjqbg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-3.0192041977652906%26panoid%3DVhhQZKCAjtlV2vhCeIjqbg%26yaw%3D289.85981081353094!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) on I-70:
Northbound:
(https://i.imgur.com/Q77Dbge.jpeg)
Southbound:
(https://i.imgur.com/DeT6Kc5.jpeg)
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
Any state route within Indiana that goes through a city
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
US 102
(What, too soon?)
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
Duh...there's only one right answer to this question, and that is US 66!
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
Iowa Highway 152.
NC 288... much of this is now underwater. Just run the windshield wipers on the high speed setting.
Interstate 31, which never quite saw the light of uh...headlights and sodium vapor incandescence.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
M-112 in Michigan, solely to get me unstuck in the "lowest-numbered route you haven't traveled on" thread.
8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
Quote from: Henry on August 25, 2025, 08:57:59 PMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
Duh...there's only one right answer to this question, and that is US 66!
If they turned US-66 into a regular road again, no one would go there any more.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
Quebéc 199.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
US 30
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
I-5
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
The entire Interstate Highway System, as that way there can be no confusion between them and Federal Highways.
:bigass:
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
The unsigned US routes in Yellowstone National Park, to be replaced with Interstates. I think this is needed.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
I-95.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
I-695 in Maryland, because it is not of national importance.
Quote from: kphoger on August 26, 2025, 02:58:32 PMQuote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
I-695 in Maryland, because it is not of national importance.
... also replace all Baltimore area bridges with tunnels, overpasses included. Too risky for ship strikes.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
Quote from: kphoger on August 26, 2025, 02:58:32 PMI-695 in Maryland, because it is not of national importance.
Quote from: PColumbus73 on August 26, 2025, 02:59:56 PM... also replace all Baltimore area bridges with tunnels, overpasses included. Too risky for ship strikes.
... also replace I-895 across the Patapsco with a steel truss bridge of multiple 220-foot spans. Add several W12-2b signs underneath, for safety.
Quote from: kphoger on August 26, 2025, 02:58:32 PMQuote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
I-695 in Maryland, because it is not of national importance.
Or perhaps decommission all Beltways?
(Capitalization deliberate based on what kphoger's comment references.)
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 26, 2025, 03:12:38 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 26, 2025, 02:58:32 PMQuote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
I-695 in Maryland, because it is not of national importance.
Or perhaps decommission all Beltways?
(Capitalization deliberate based on what kphoger's comment references.)
Naturalised Orbitals
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
I-55
Every time a route gets decommissioned, a vehicle loses its wings.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
Every US highway in the 400's. Sorry to the legit ones like 411 & 441, but amongst your ranks are 3 cancers that must be excised, and it's better safe than sorry.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
I-180 (NE)
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
I-238
Quote from: Henry on August 26, 2025, 10:11:11 PMI-238
Wrong answer. The correct answer is CA-238. Or maybe I mean that your answer isn't wrong
enough...
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
All of them. :bigass:
Quote from: freebrickproductions on August 26, 2025, 11:48:24 PMQuote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
All of them. :bigass:
Ah, the NUMTOT approach.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
I-90. Give some other road a turn being the longest interstate.
2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Just send it.
Contact Amazon Returns. They take anything back, even if it's packed in a paper bag.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Call it a good signal and a pretty signal and watch the sparks fly.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
(https://external-preview.redd.it/XVBcnS3tm6ayXC-0FubZVXzzYQSYrJiW_AESj6zIlTs.jpg?auto=webp&s=7a4ca93b42dd4809398a57e967e660f46e73fb94)
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Drivers must play duck-duck-goose. They cannot goose themselves.
Paint the lenses whatever color you choose.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Laugh at it akin to how Grif's goons would in Back to the Future Part 2.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Wait at the intersection for the next car to get confused, and go when they do and honk at them for not understanding the intersection.
Quote from: xonhulu on August 26, 2025, 09:46:05 PMQuote from: LilianaUwU on August 26, 2025, 01:24:42 AM8-26-2025
The opposite question: which currently existing highway should be decommissioned?
Every US highway in the 400's. Sorry to the legit ones like 411 & 441, but amongst your ranks are 3 cancers that must be excised, and it's better safe than sorry.
This thread is supposed to be about the
worst answers.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Imitate the men driving horse-drawn wagons in that commercial from some years ago: Everyone sit there arguing that someone else should go first until a female driver shows up. Then everyone agree that she goes first. Then return to arguing.
(I don't remember whose ad that was. If I could remember, I'd link the video if it's online.)
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Oh, this is an easy one!
Stop and wait for a green light.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Gun it, the red light cameras are probably out too
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Get out your jumper cables.
Quote from: kphoger on August 27, 2025, 10:17:20 AMQuote from: JayhawkCO on August 27, 2025, 10:15:25 AMGet out your jumper cables.
Is there a second step?
Depends on if you have a ladder or not, otherwise you have to wait for someone that has one.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Waive to the adoring crowds like you're the Queen of England. If someone hits you, off with their head!
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
US 666 just because stuff.
Quote from: kphoger on August 25, 2025, 01:52:18 PMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on August 25, 2025, 09:58:39 AM8-25-25
Which decommissioned highway should be revived?
I-15-BL, Holden, Utah.
Furthermore, the [NO SERVICES] sign should be removed from the exit signs, because otherwise people won't realize that there are services at Holden Cold Drinks (https://maps.app.goo.gl/QgD1SHTshvHs6MyV8).
I wonder if that machine makes more money in a month than some of those "households" in a month.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/TgxACnHQaYSj4Jju9
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Park your vehicle in the middle of the intersection, effectively turning it into a roundabout.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
If it's NYC, treat the intersection as a 4-day stop, same as when the signals are working.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Engage it in consciousness raising until it realizes that it has more power than it knew.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Turn on your high beams, set your windshield wipers to the fastest setting, honk your horn repeatedly, and thus proceed slowly and carefully through the intersection—not stopping until you reach the other side* of the intersection. Once on the other side, stop the vehicle, turn off your headlights and your windshield wipers, but continue honking your horn until either power is restored to the signal or a uniformed officer arrives to direct traffic.
* "Other side" means diagonally opposite your approach to the intersection, which will require either (a) turning left at the intersection or (b) proceeding on the opposite side of the highway.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Get out of your car and kick the pole as hard as you can! Then, when the signal starts working again, get back in your car and just drive the hell away.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Wait for the other cars to show up and let the Midwest way of directing traffic do the rest!
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Play or hum the music shown:
(https://i.imgur.com/TJ5uCxe.png)
Engineers and contractors will arrive within 30 minutes and start replacing the obsolete, power-dependent signalized intersection with an [optionally crash-prone modern] roundabout! They've already been installed in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook.
Quote from: kurumi on August 27, 2025, 11:10:10 PMPlay or hum the music shown:
For some reason, just looking at the notation, I thought this was going to be the theme to
Merv Griffin's Crosswords, which would have been a fantastic Alanland reference. It is not, as I found out by punching it into a notation editor (though I really should have known that by the complexity of the rhythm in measure 2), but it's still pretty good.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Shimmy up the pole and start fiddling with the wires. You'll be up for the "most dad-like dad" award soon.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Cry.
28 AUG 2025:
What should the default speed limits be? Criteria below:
1. Must include the following five categories of road:
- a. street in business area
- b. street in residential area
- c. rural road
- d. state highway
- e. Interstate or other access-controlled highway
2. Answers for (a) and (b) must be less than answers for (c), (d), and (e).
3. Only positive integers >15.
4. Additional categories and/or special conditions allowed.
Quote from: kphoger on August 28, 2025, 10:29:14 AM28 AUG 2025:
What should the default speed limits be? Criteria below:
1. Must include the following five categories of road:
- a. street in business area 21
- b. street in residential area the last speed limit sign you saw, regardless of which road it was on
- c. rural road the speed of the car behind you minus 1 mph
- d. state highway the route number, and all surface routes numbered 15 or less must be decommissioned
- e. Interstate or other access-controlled highway 40th percentile, dynamically adjusted on the fly
2. Answers for (a) and (b) must be less than answers for (c), (d), and (e).
3. Only positive integers >15.
4. Additional categories and/or special conditions allowed.
I interpreted "default" as "this applies if there is no posted speed limit on this road".
Quote from: kphoger on August 28, 2025, 10:29:14 AM28 AUG 2025:
What should the default speed limits be? Criteria below:
1. Must include the following five categories of road:
- a. street in business area
35 mph while businesses are open, 20 mph after they close
- b. street in residential area
25 mph, except after dark where the speed limit shall be high enough to flee high crime neighborhoods in reasonable time
- c. rural road
55 mph or posted speed, whichever is higher
- d. state highway
Last two digits of the state's founding year. If value is under 20 mph, multiply by an integer until higher than 20 mph.
- e. Interstate or other access-controlled highway
whatever speed is required to reach the signed control city in under an hour from that point. Speed limits will gradually decrease as one gets closer to the control city to ensure they are still able to make it in under an hour.
EXCEPTION A: Beltways with no control cities must be able to complete one lap in 10 minutes less than the number of miles to complete the loop
EXCEPTION B: If there is no signed control city on a spur or mainline interstate, the speed limit should be no less than the speed required to return to the previous control city within 1 hour or no more than the required speed to reach the end of the interstate in under one hour.
2. Answers for (a) and (b) must be less than answers for (c), (d), and (e).
3. Only positive integers >15.
4. Additional categories and/or special conditions allowed.
Quote from: kphoger on August 28, 2025, 10:29:14 AM28 AUG 2025:
What should the default speed limits be? Criteria below:
1. Must include the following five categories of road:
- a. street in business area
- b. street in residential area
- c. rural road
- d. state highway
- e. Interstate or other access-controlled highway
2. Answers for (a) and (b) must be less than answers for (c), (d), and (e).
3. Only positive integers >15.
4. Additional categories and/or special conditions allowed.
1a - 55, but businesses are allowed the biggest, brightest, most distracting advertisements to get your attention
1b - 35 (default), residential speed limits to be determined by nearest HOA or politician during an election year
1c - 60, cows and horses are positioned along the roads so you slow down to say 'cow / horse' with accompanying animal noise.
1d - 55, but police are allowed to treat speeding 1 MPH over as a high-speed pursuit
1e - No speed limit, but for ticketing and insurance, you will automatically be at fault in a crash
Quote from: I-55 on August 28, 2025, 11:22:16 AM- d. state highway
Last two digits of the state's founding year. If value is under 20 mph, multiply by an integer until higher than 20 mph.
Because of course I had to...
20 mph - Maine
21 mph - Ohio (3x7)
21 mph - Missouri
21 mph - Oklahoma (7x3)
24 mph - Louisiana (12x2)
24 mph - New Mexico (12x2)
24 mph - Arizona (12x2)
32 mph - Indiana (16x2)
34 mph - Mississippi (17x2)
36 mph - Illinois (18x2)
36 mph - Arkansas
37 mph - Michigan
38 mph - Alabama (19x2)
45 mph - Florida
45 mph - Texas
46 mph - Iowa
48 mph - Wisconsin
50 mph - California
58 mph - Minnesota
59 mph - Oregon
59 mph - Alaska
59 mph - Hawaii
61 mph - Kansas
63 mph - West Virginia
64 mph - Nevada
67 mph - Nebraska
76 mph - Colorado
87 mph - Delaware
87 mph - Pennsylvania
87 mph - New Jersey
88 mph - Georgia
88 mph - Connecticut
88 mph - Massachusetts
88 mph - Maryland
88 mph - South Carolina
88 mph - New Hampshire
88 mph - Virginia
88 mph - New York
89 mph - North Carolina
89 mph - North Dakota
89 mph - South Dakota
89 mph - Montana
89 mph - Washington
90 mph - Rhode Island
90 mph - Idaho
90 mph - Wyoming
91 mph - Vermont
92 mph - Kentucky
96 mph - Tennessee
96 mph - Utah
undefined - District of Columbia
Crossing the NH/ME state line becomes quite the shock. Also crossing the AZ/UT state line.
36 mph - all roads between dusk and dawn (civil twilight)
37 mph - alley
37 mph - any unpaved road
38 mph - street in business area
38 mph - street in residential area
39 mph - rural road
39 mph - state highway
39 mph - Interstate or other access-controlled highway
Quote from: kphoger on August 28, 2025, 10:29:14 AM28 AUG 2025:
What should the default speed limits be? Criteria below:
1. Must include the following five categories of road:
- a. street in business area
- b. street in residential area
- c. rural road
- d. state highway
- e. Interstate or other access-controlled highway
2. Answers for (a) and (b) must be less than answers for (c), (d), and (e).
3. Only positive integers >15.
4. Additional categories and/or special conditions allowed.
Quote from: kphoger on August 28, 2025, 10:29:14 AM28 AUG 2025:
What should the default speed limits be? Criteria below:
1. Must include the following five categories of road:
- a. street in business area 32 mph
- b. street in residential area When I was in high school, a classmate of mine supposedly got busted for driving his mother's Jaguar 125 mph on Braeburn Drive in Annandale, Virginia. I doubt the truth of that story, but in his honor, I have to vote for 125 mph.
- c. rural road 27 mph. When I was in law school, the residential James Street in Durham had a 27-mph speed limit. I can't use that for residential streets for the reason given above, but I wanted to honor it somewhere and I therefore used it for rural roads.
- d. state highway 27 mph (in Virginia, most rural roads are also state highways, so I've made them the same)
- e. Interstate or other access-controlled highway 35 mph so that you don't have to slow down to use most exit ramps
2. Answers for (a) and (b) must be less than answers for (c), (d), and (e). I've elected to ignore this requirement for (b) for the special reason stated above.
3. Only positive integers >15.
4. Additional categories and/or special conditions allowed.
Quote from: I-55 on August 28, 2025, 11:22:16 AM- d. state highway
Last two digits of the state's founding year. If value is under 20 mph, multiply by an integer until higher than 20 mph.
Quote from: kphoger on August 28, 2025, 11:38:01 AMCrossing the NH/ME state line becomes quite the shock. Also crossing the AZ/UT state line.
And US-421 is quite different from KY to IN.
Quote from: kphoger on August 28, 2025, 10:29:14 AMWhat should the default speed limits be?
5d20 (or 5d32 in metric), rolled at each intersection/interchange.
Quote from: kphoger on August 28, 2025, 10:29:14 AM28 AUG 2025:
What should the default speed limits be?
It doesn't matter, because Metro isn't going to pull anyone over for speeding anyhow.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 28, 2025, 05:01:34 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 28, 2025, 10:29:14 AM28 AUG 2025:
What should the default speed limits be?
It doesn't matter, because Metro isn't going to pull anyone over for speeding anyhow.
For all roads: c
It's not my default. Maybe it's your default.
Quote from: kphoger on August 28, 2025, 10:29:14 AM28 AUG 2025:
What should the default speed limits be? Criteria below:
1. Must include the following five categories of road:
- a. street in business area
- b. street in residential area
- c. rural road
- d. state highway
- e. Interstate or other access-controlled highway
2. Answers for (a) and (b) must be less than answers for (c), (d), and (e).
3. Only positive integers >15.
4. Additional categories and/or special conditions allowed.
a. 40
b. 20
c. 60
d. 80
e. 100
*--This isn't Canada; all speeds are in MPH, eh?
Quote from: kphoger on August 28, 2025, 10:29:14 AM28 AUG 2025:
What should the default speed limits be? Criteria below:
1. Must include the following five categories of road:
- a. street in business area
- b. street in residential area
- c. rural road
- d. state highway
- e. Interstate or other access-controlled highway
2. Answers for (a) and (b) must be less than answers for (c), (d), and (e).
3. Only positive integers >15.
4. Additional categories and/or special conditions allowed.
a. 35
b. 20
c. 55
d. 60
e. 75
Quote from: kphoger on August 28, 2025, 10:29:14 AM28 AUG 2025:
What should the default speed limits be? Criteria below:
1. Must include the following five categories of road:
- a. street in business area
- b. street in residential area
- c. rural road
- d. state highway
- e. Interstate or other access-controlled highway
2. Answers for (a) and (b) must be less than answers for (c), (d), and (e).
3. Only positive integers >15.
4. Additional categories and/or special conditions allowed.
You didn't say which unit I have to use. Special condition is all metrics for speed measuring must now be in kilometers/hr.
a. 15kmh, regardless of how busy the road is
b. Whatever the 3rd grade science class votes it to be, so long as it is above 15
c. 45kmh in no-passing zones; otherwise, 125kmh
d. 55kmh for any highway longer than 1 kilometer, hardset and strictly enforced
e. Whatever the fastest car was driving yesterday
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on August 28, 2025, 11:19:34 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 28, 2025, 10:29:14 AM28 AUG 2025:
What should the default speed limits be? Criteria below:
1. Must include the following five categories of road:
- a. street in business area
- b. street in residential area
- c. rural road
- d. state highway
- e. Interstate or other access-controlled highway
2. Answers for (a) and (b) must be less than answers for (c), (d), and (e).
3. Only positive integers >15.
4. Additional categories and/or special conditions allowed.
a. 35
b. 20
c. 55
d. 60
e. 75
Did you read the thread's subject line?
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on August 28, 2025, 11:19:34 PMa. 35
b. 20
c. 55
d. 60
e. 75
Quote from: 1995hoo on August 29, 2025, 08:43:59 AMDid you read the thread's subject line?
I mean, he did make the speed limit in business districts higher than in residential areas, so I guess it's not
completely ideal...
:confused:
29 AUG 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/MUTCD_R3-4.svg/250px-MUTCD_R3-4.svg.png)
It's a "hamburger rotary" (see MA 1A/16/60 as an example), where the red lines represent the roads. The arrow indicates the direction of traffic flow is counterclockwise, which is typical in the US but not always the case.
Quote from: kphoger on August 29, 2025, 09:39:28 AM29 AUG 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/MUTCD_R3-4.svg/250px-MUTCD_R3-4.svg.png)
No flipping bitch maneuvers allowed in this business establishment.
Quote from: kphoger on August 29, 2025, 09:39:28 AM29 AUG 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/MUTCD_R3-4.svg/250px-MUTCD_R3-4.svg.png)
This signage was created by NASA in 1964 and posted in the cockpit and door jambs of low-earth-orbiting spacecraft or any future lunar craft. It reminded the commander to know it was not safe to return to earth, in case alien beings had hijacked the command module. After the successful mission to the moon and subsequent discovery that it was not made of cheese, the mission patch entered the public domain and reminded earthlings that they will never operate spacecraft (which is why it looks like a lower case "n").
SourcesMurray, Keith. "How to Hijack a Space Shuttle" 0-80,
Eric–Parrish Business PressMorrison, James. "Not to Touch the Earth" Track 3, Waiting for the Sun; 1968
Elecktra RecordsOlds, Random Owen. "Rockit" 88-98,
H. Hancock/Pea Press
Quote from: formulanone on August 29, 2025, 10:15:44 AMthe successful mission to the moon
do your own research
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Quote from: kphoger on August 29, 2025, 10:32:59 AMQuote from: formulanone on August 29, 2025, 10:15:44 AMthe successful mission to the moon
do your own research
[/flerf]
"Quasi-successful" would have blown the whole operation.
mumble mumble refraction mumble mumble firmament mumble mumble talked to a pilot once mumble mumble sticky water mumble mumble
Quote from: kphoger on August 29, 2025, 10:55:08 AMmumble mumble refraction mumble mumble firmament mumble mumble talked to a pilot once mumble mumble sticky water mumble mumble
I also saw the film
Capricorn Dos: An Operating System for Lunatics which told me all I needed to know about NASA.
SEAT BELT USE PROHIBITED
Quote from: kphoger on August 29, 2025, 09:39:28 AM29 AUG 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/MUTCD_R3-4.svg/250px-MUTCD_R3-4.svg.png)
Quote from: kphoger on August 29, 2025, 09:39:28 AM29 AUG 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/MUTCD_R3-4.svg/250px-MUTCD_R3-4.svg.png)
This tunnel is prohibited from collapse
Quote from: Mapmikey on August 29, 2025, 11:12:13 AMThis tunnel is prohibited from collapse
DO NOT USE
LEFT LANE
IN TUNNEL
Quote from: kphoger on August 29, 2025, 09:39:28 AM29 AUG 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/MUTCD_R3-4.svg/250px-MUTCD_R3-4.svg.png)
It is a visual hieroglyphic depiction of the all of the lyrics of the hymn "I Have Decided To Follow Jesus."
I have decided to follow Jesus.
I have decided to follow Jesus.
I have decided to follow Jesus,
No turning back, no turning back.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 29, 2025, 09:46:52 AMIt's a "hamburger rotary" (see MA 1A/16/60 as an example), where the red lines represent the roads. The arrow indicates the direction of traffic flow is counterclockwise, which is typical in the US but not always the case.
(https://i.imgur.com/Tn11hHb.png)
Quote from: kphoger on August 29, 2025, 09:39:28 AM29 AUG 2025
What does this sign mean?
You can never go back home again.
No doing backflips.
Quote from: kphoger on August 29, 2025, 09:39:28 AM29 AUG 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/MUTCD_R3-4.svg/250px-MUTCD_R3-4.svg.png)
All magnets must be bi-polar
Quote from: GaryV on August 28, 2025, 07:16:42 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on August 27, 2025, 02:07:00 AM2025-08-27:
What should you do when you encounter a traffic signal that is without power?
Shimmy up the pole and start fiddling with the wires. You'll be up for the "most dad-like dad" award soon.
And possibly a Darwin.
Quote from: kphoger on August 29, 2025, 09:39:28 AM29 AUG 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/MUTCD_R3-4.svg/250px-MUTCD_R3-4.svg.png)
Don't fuck up! (or Don't fuck down!)
No hanging your horseshoe upside down.
The Hokey-Pokey is prohibited.
Quote from: MikeTheActuary on August 29, 2025, 04:57:43 PMThe Hokey-Pokey is prohibited.
Are there any highways where it's allowed?
No In-n-Out Burgers on this road.
Quote from: kphoger on August 29, 2025, 09:39:28 AM29 AUG 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/MUTCD_R3-4.svg/250px-MUTCD_R3-4.svg.png)
Stop bending over backwards.
Quote from: MikeTheActuary on August 29, 2025, 04:57:43 PMThe Hokey-Pokey is prohibited.
In Blacksburg, we say "Hokie-Pokie". And both of our marching bands play the John Philip Sousa rendition (with an extra boost from -sigh- the Sousaphone section). [By the way, the Virginia Tech Regimental Band is called the Highty-Tighties].
Quote from: kphoger on August 29, 2025, 09:39:28 AM29 AUG 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/MUTCD_R3-4.svg/250px-MUTCD_R3-4.svg.png)
Planarians Forbidden
No Gravity Ahead.
Quote from: kphoger on August 29, 2025, 09:39:28 AM29 AUG 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/MUTCD_R3-4.svg/250px-MUTCD_R3-4.svg.png)
Throwing boomerangs on roads is prohibited.
Quote from: kphoger on August 29, 2025, 09:39:28 AM29 AUG 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/MUTCD_R3-4.svg/250px-MUTCD_R3-4.svg.png)
If you're at a shooting range, your bullets can't ricochet.
Quote from: hotdogPi on August 29, 2025, 09:46:52 AMIt's a "hamburger rotary"
explaining rotaries with a through road to an American: ok imagine a burger
Quote from: LilianaUwU on August 30, 2025, 03:55:08 AMexplaining rotaries with a through road to an American: ok imagine a burger
I'm actually not familiar enough with the history of the term 'hamburger roundabout' to say for certain that it originated in the US. For all I know, it came over here from England or wherever.
^^ Hamburger = resident of Hamburg in German.
Quote from: Big John on August 30, 2025, 10:50:40 AM^^ Hamburger = resident of Hamburg in German.
Americans when they talk about Germans: ok, imagine a Hamburger
Quote from: kphoger on August 30, 2025, 10:20:17 AMI'm actually not familiar enough with the history of the term 'hamburger roundabout' to say for certain that it originated in the US. For all I know, it came over here from England or wherever.
Quote from: Big John on August 30, 2025, 10:50:40 AM^^ Hamburger = resident of Hamburg in German.
I already know that. But how in the world does it help me understand the origin of the term 'hamburger roundabout'?
Quote from: kphoger on August 30, 2025, 02:29:25 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 30, 2025, 10:20:17 AMI'm actually not familiar enough with the history of the term 'hamburger roundabout' to say for certain that it originated in the US. For all I know, it came over here from England or wherever.
Quote from: Big John on August 30, 2025, 10:50:40 AM^^ Hamburger = resident of Hamburg in German.
I already know that. But how in the world does it help me understand the origin of the term 'hamburger roundabout'?
If it was German in origin. :hmmm:
Quote from: kphoger on August 30, 2025, 10:20:17 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on August 30, 2025, 03:55:08 AMexplaining rotaries with a through road to an American: ok imagine a burger
I'm actually not familiar enough with the history of the term 'hamburger roundabout' to say for certain that it originated in the US. For all I know, it came over here from England or wherever.
I've never heard the term, and I grew up (and learned to drive) in Massachusetts, where I know of 17 such interchanges. I always called them rotary interchanges, but that was just my term for them. I'd be surprised if DOTs call them hamburger roundabouts, or even hamburger rotaries in Massachusetts.
2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
The thunderdome junction -- two vehicles enter, but only one leaves.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
The P13. It's like a huge multi-spoke roundabout, but you can only get off at the 3rd, 7th and 11th exit.
Quote from: MikeTheActuary on August 31, 2025, 07:31:57 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
The thunderdome junction -- two vehicles enter, but only one leaves.
They should install one of these at the Bullet Farm and Citadel.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
The Tuba interchange. With how huge cars are getting these days, trumpets were just getting too small.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
The mountain interchange, a four way interchange across a 20,000 foot mountain that only allows 4 cars at a time. They are common in Alanland, not in the rest of the world though.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
Diamond, so named because of how rare they are. This is the only one in Connecticut (https://maps.app.goo.gl/nDGtmytCkqWu4Fww9), on Route 8. I almost crashed my Saab when I realized what I was driving through. I tried to take a picture, but it came out all fuzzy.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
The kind that's now more commonly called GAS or SRS:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7518638,-87.5529155,3a,15y,260.21h,91.22t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sw7G3gKx3DfY4GipBKIijug!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-1.2237694378371629%26panoid%3Dw7G3gKx3DfY4GipBKIijug%26yaw%3D260.20671782158496!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
Conjunction junctions
What's their function?
Hooking up roads in phases and pauses.
Found only in Schoolhouse Rock OR. It has neither stoplights nor stop signs but it has speed bumps and ramp meters on the off ramps.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
The trapdoor interchange - if you drive over part of the overpass, it drops down into a ramp to the other road below, then springs back up once it's empty. Usually the trapdoor part is painted off, but if the paint's faded, drivers are in for a surprise!
Quote from: kurumi on August 31, 2025, 12:48:18 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
Diamond, so named because of how rare they are. This is the only one in Connecticut (https://maps.app.goo.gl/nDGtmytCkqWu4Fww9), on Route 8. I almost crashed my Saab when I realized what I was driving through. I tried to take a picture, but it came out all fuzzy.
There is this one on I-95 east of Bridgeport:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2890959,-72.8212775,16.5z?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
And these two also on I-95 near Westbrook:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2946994,-72.4691412,14.75z?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
And this one near New London:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3671857,-72.1188696,14.75z?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
And this last one jest before entering Rhode Island:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4374298,-71.794298,14.75z?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Not so rare IMO.
Quote from: hobsini2 on August 31, 2025, 04:14:16 PMQuote from: kurumi on August 31, 2025, 12:48:18 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
Diamond, so named because of how rare they are. This is the only one in Connecticut (https://maps.app.goo.gl/nDGtmytCkqWu4Fww9), on Route 8. I almost crashed my Saab when I realized what I was driving through. I tried to take a picture, but it came out all fuzzy.
There is this one on I-95 east of Bridgeport:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2890959,-72.8212775,16.5z?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
And these two also on I-95 near Westbrook:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2946994,-72.4691412,14.75z?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
And this one near New London:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3671857,-72.1188696,14.75z?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
And this last one jest before entering Rhode Island:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4374298,-71.794298,14.75z?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgyNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Not so rare IMO.
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Quote from: hobsini2 on August 31, 2025, 04:14:16 PMNot so rare IMO.
Read the thread title and try again.
The no-way stop. They used to be common in Massachusetts when I was young, but they heedlessly destroyed them all by putting up stop signs and traffic lights.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
At this time purely theoretical, but when flying cars become a reality, the Sphereabout will become commonplace.
Quote from: xonhulu on August 31, 2025, 07:44:27 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
At this time purely theoretical, but when flying cars become a reality, the Sphereabout will become commonplace.
I would support reconfiguring the Twain/Koval intersection into a roundabout with the Sphere inside it.
2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
Minecraft pixelated font
Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
comic sans
Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
Webdings
Something like this...
(https://as2.ftcdn.net/jpg/02/10/97/53/1000_F_210975317_GjwGvuSva1wAAfU7nLUPtfAFMLfjDBKJ.webp)
Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
Perhaps the infamous Highway Road font?
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.etsystatic.com%2F40753539%2Fr%2Fil%2F4852ad%2F5111168448%2Fil_fullxfull.5111168448_ixga.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=a89aa748b99df7bac40f7de88805e7f304a80cdf0cfd04188630c2b57abf5644)
Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
Verdana
Still Highway Gothic, but with Arabic script.
Highway Brutalist.
Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
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Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
For some reason the image isn't displaying when I try to embed it, so I'll give you a link to a "photo" of a road sign with a different typeface:
https://typographyforlawyers.com/images/roadsign-script.jpg
(https://typographyforlawyers.com/images/roadsign-script.jpg)
Whatever font Aurebesh (Galactic Basic) is written in.
Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
Cursive.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 01, 2025, 08:56:54 PMQuote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
Cursive.
See the picture I linked in reply #780.
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 01, 2025, 08:58:09 PMQuote from: Sapphuby on September 01, 2025, 08:56:54 PMQuote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
Cursive.
See the picture I linked in reply #780.
The picture of the HTTP error?
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 01, 2025, 08:58:09 PMQuote from: Sapphuby on September 01, 2025, 08:56:54 PMQuote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
Cursive.
See the picture I linked in reply #780.
It comes back with an HTTP error, unless that's the font and that was the whole idea.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 01, 2025, 08:56:54 PMQuote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
Cursive.
Then we'll get the endless arguments between Zaner-Bloser and D'Nealian.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 01, 2025, 09:00:15 PMQuote from: 1995hoo on September 01, 2025, 08:58:09 PMQuote from: Sapphuby on September 01, 2025, 08:56:54 PMQuote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
Cursive.
See the picture I linked in reply #780.
It comes back with an HTTP error, unless that's the font and that was the whole idea.
I didn't get an error, so I didn't know that was happening. It was not the intent. See whether the following link works. I was trying to link to the bottom photo.
https://typographyforlawyers.com/what-is-typography.html
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 01, 2025, 09:07:17 PMQuote from: Sapphuby on September 01, 2025, 09:00:15 PMQuote from: 1995hoo on September 01, 2025, 08:58:09 PMQuote from: Sapphuby on September 01, 2025, 08:56:54 PMQuote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
Cursive.
See the picture I linked in reply #780.
It comes back with an HTTP error, unless that's the font and that was the whole idea.
I didn't get an error, so I didn't know that was happening. It was not the intent. See whether the following link works. I was trying to link to the bottom photo.
https://typographyforlawyers.com/what-is-typography.html
That's pretty close to what I imagined as cursive, but without the visual representation. I guess you mostly beat me to it.
Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
Impact
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/impact
Give a little kid some crayons. Of course, you may have trouble with child labor laws.
Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
Your doctor's handwriting.
Harlow Solid Italic.
Quote from: pderocco on September 01, 2025, 10:41:57 PMGive a little kid some crayons. Of course, you may have trouble with child labor laws.
Like in construction zones?
2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
It's a tossup between Limon, CO and Hennepin, IL (the latter to supplement I-180).
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Goldfield, Nevada.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Palm Beach
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
The cities/towns/villages/communities that the Merritt Parkway passes through.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Bird-In-Hand and Intercourse, PA. A problem would be trying to keep the horses and buggies off it.
Mackinac City MI
Quote from: GaryV on September 02, 2025, 07:04:42 AMQuote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Bird-In-Hand and Intercourse, PA. A problem would be trying to keep the horses and buggies off it.
They'll have their own lanes and the control city fanboys will Lose-Their-Shit.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Turbeville, SC
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Monowi, Nebraska.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Jonestown, Guyana.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Nothing, AZ
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Carbonate, Colorado (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonate,_Colorado)
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Nashville, IN
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
Triclo interchange - three interconnected cloverleaf interchanges
Fractal interchange - like a diamond interchange, but each exit leads you to a further exit
Phallic interchange - looks like the shape of a phallus when viewed from above
Maytag interchange - Whirlpool interchange constructed before April 2006
Nondirectional T interchange - ramps exit in opposite direction from direction of travel, then just keep going
Omnidirectional T interchange - all ramps from all directions end up in your intended direction of travel
Five-level diamond - highway, crossroad, HOV lanes on both, frontage roads on both, all grade separated
SPRI - single point rural interchange
Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on September 01, 2025, 04:40:43 PM2025-09-01: What font should the FHWA recommend for road signs instead of Highway Gothic or Clearview?
Vivaldi
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Deering, AK
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
That one Amish group of towns that I forgot the name of that has 6 or 7 different cities under the same name, just different directions, and a separate exit for each and every one of them.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 02, 2025, 12:55:01 PMThat one Amish group of towns that I forgot the name of that has 6 or 7 different cities under the same name, just different directions, and a separate exit for each and every one of them.
Hint:
Quote from: kphoger on September 02, 2025, 12:43:37 PMMaytag interchange - Whirlpool interchange constructed before April 2006
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
Parclo AB1
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
Interchangeable interchange - different kinds of exits every single time you take it.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Mentone, TX
https://maps.app.goo.gl/7nSeDRShDvy7x1WL8
Pop is between 12 and 22 depending on the source.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 02, 2025, 12:55:01 PMQuote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
That one Amish group of towns that I forgot the name of that has 6 or 7 different cities under the same name, just different directions, and a separate exit for each and every one of them.
Are you thinking of Amana, IA?
Quote from: hobsini2 on September 02, 2025, 02:06:18 PMQuote from: Sapphuby on September 02, 2025, 12:55:01 PMQuote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
That one Amish group of towns that I forgot the name of that has 6 or 7 different cities under the same name, just different directions, and a separate exit for each and every one of them.
Are you thinking of Amana, IA?
I knew it started with an A.
My friend and I made a joke about an Upson, WI bypass once.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 02, 2025, 12:55:01 PMThat one Amish group of towns that I forgot the name of that has 6 or 7 different cities under the same name, just different directions, and a separate exit for each and every one of them.
Quote from: NE2 on September 02, 2025, 01:13:39 PMHint:
Quote from: kphoger on September 02, 2025, 12:43:37 PMMaytag interchange - Whirlpool interchange constructed before April 2006
Quote from: hobsini2 on September 02, 2025, 02:06:18 PMAre you thinking of Amana, IA?
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 02, 2025, 02:10:04 PMI knew it started with an A.
Hence the hint.
(https://www.whirlpoolcorp.com/content/dam/business-unit/whirlpoolcorp/wp-content/upload/logos/Whirlpool_Corporation_Global_Lockup_4C_Black_Web.png)
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Poway CA. The 14-lane 65mph bypass they've got needs a 16-lane 85MPH bypass.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
I'm working on a worse answer for this...
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
New Idria, California.
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
When two very busy foot trails cross paths, parks are starting to install groundabouts.
Quote from: kphoger on September 02, 2025, 12:43:37 PMFractal interchange - like a diamond interchange, but each exit leads you to a further exit
pretty sure I ran into one of those in Dallas once when I was almost out of gas
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
It should be obvious: Breezewood, PA!
Quote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
Quote from: kphoger on September 02, 2025, 12:43:37 PMSPRI - single point rural interchange
Quote from: kphoger on September 02, 2025, 05:02:59 PMI'm working on a worse answer for this...
We all know about the Single Point Urban Interchange (SPUI). And I already mentioned the Single Point Rural Interchange (SPRI), which is rare enough. But there's one related interchange type that's even less frequently used.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to the Single Booth Toll Interchange! Allowing for a full service interchange between two toll roads with just a single bridge a single toll booth, this innovating design affords those toll agencies suffering from a severe funding deficit a more affordable option than traditional interchange designs, as it saves a significant amount of upfront construction cost. Furthermore, with a single booth toll point, agencies can have the flexibility to retain human toll collection by only needing to staff two or even one employee at any given time.
(https://i.imgur.com/YhMAhRM.png)
Quote from: kphoger on September 03, 2025, 11:16:51 AM... just a single bridge ....
Are there not more bridges because of the "ramps" (for lack of a better word) having to cross each other? You don't show such in the diagram, so maybe there are traffic lights or stop signs or some such instead?
Quote from: kphoger on September 03, 2025, 11:16:51 AMLadies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to the Single Booth Toll Interchange! Allowing for a full service interchange between two toll roads with just a single bridge a single toll booth, this innovating design affords those toll agencies suffering from a severe funding deficit a more affordable option than traditional interchange designs, as it saves a significant amount of upfront construction cost. Furthermore, with a single booth toll point, agencies can have the flexibility to retain human toll collection by only needing to staff two or even one employee at any given time.
And people heading from the south to the west or the north to the east have the opportunity to pass through the booth
two times!
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 03, 2025, 11:38:55 AMAre there not more bridges because of the "ramps" (for lack of a better word) having to cross each other? You don't show such in the diagram, so maybe there are traffic lights or stop signs or some such instead?
Yes, they're at-grade. Lights or stop/yield signs as appropriate, depending on the location.
Quote from: jlam on September 03, 2025, 11:50:46 AMAnd people heading from the south to the west or the north to the east have the opportunity to pass through the booth two times!
Yes, that was intentional. After all, if you're using two toll roads, then you should pay two tolls. This is another cost benefit of the design. I realized shortly after posting that I'd neglected to require it for the other two movements, but I was too lazy to remove the ramps from my illustration.
Quote from: kphoger on September 03, 2025, 11:16:51 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on August 31, 2025, 07:01:23 AM2025-08-31: What are some lesser-known types of interchanges?
Quote from: kphoger on September 02, 2025, 12:43:37 PMSPRI - single point rural interchange
Quote from: kphoger on September 02, 2025, 05:02:59 PMI'm working on a worse answer for this...
We all know about the Single Point Urban Interchange (SPUI). And I already mentioned the Single Point Rural Interchange (SPRI), which is rare enough. But there's one related interchange type that's even less frequently used.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to the Single Booth Toll Interchange! Allowing for a full service interchange between two toll roads with just a single bridge a single toll booth, this innovating design affords those toll agencies suffering from a severe funding deficit a more affordable option than traditional interchange designs, as it saves a significant amount of upfront construction cost. Furthermore, with a single booth toll point, agencies can have the flexibility to retain human toll collection by only needing to staff two or even one employee at any given time.
(https://i.imgur.com/YhMAhRM.png)
Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz
Memorial Interchange
9-3-25: What are your favorite golf cart roads?
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 03, 2025, 04:02:10 PM9-3-25: What are your favorite golf cart roads?
Brickyard Crossing (https://www.brickyardcrossing.com/) is a great golf CART road.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 03, 2025, 04:02:10 PM9-3-25: What are your favorite golf cart roads?
I once attempted to jump a creek, Dukes-style, in a golf cart. So I have to vote for I-695 in Maryland.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 03, 2025, 04:02:10 PM9-3-25: What are your favorite golf cart roads?
The greens, especially if I can drive over the cart directional signs on my way to them.
Following not too far behind, sandtraps and tee boxes.
Driving through the water hazards in Venice, Italy.
I used this answer for another one, but Lake Como Road.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 03, 2025, 04:02:10 PM9-3-25: What are your favorite golf cart roads?
Illinois Route 58
(https://i.imgur.com/IMClM7D.png)
Quote from: formulanone on September 03, 2025, 03:31:25 PMDoctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz
Memorial Interchange
Didn't know he passed away.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 03, 2025, 04:02:10 PM9-3-25: What are your favorite golf cart roads?
This:
(https://www.aaroads.com/tn/075/i-075-n-exit-009-3.jpg)
(they make the Golf, as well as the fun-to-drive GTI)
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 03, 2025, 04:02:10 PM9-3-25: What are your favorite golf cart roads?
Any road in Florida
Quote from: LilianaUwU on September 03, 2025, 09:35:28 PMQuote from: formulanone on September 03, 2025, 03:31:25 PMDoctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz
Memorial Interchange
Didn't know he passed away.
One of those inators malfunctioned off-screen and he turned into a waffle during a breakfast parade.
Quote from: kphoger on September 03, 2025, 11:16:51 AMLadies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to the Single Booth Toll Interchange! Allowing for a full service interchange between two toll roads with just a single bridge a single toll booth, this innovating design affords those toll agencies suffering from a severe funding deficit a more affordable option than traditional interchange designs, as it saves a significant amount of upfront construction cost. Furthermore, with a single booth toll point, agencies can have the flexibility to retain human toll collection by only needing to staff two or even one employee at any given time.
(https://i.imgur.com/YhMAhRM.png)
Reminds me of the setups that people have created in Cities: Skylines that force traffic to loop through the same toll booth(s) multiple times before they can proceed. Like this one (https://old.reddit.com/r/shittyskylines/comments/1l6nlaz/the_toll_turbine_all_traffic_is_fed_through_all/).
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 03, 2025, 04:02:10 PM9-3-25: What are your favorite golf cart roads?
Intracoastal Waterway
9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
Contract bridge
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
Dental bridges
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
Bering land
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
A
Dukes of Hazzard-style bridge, consisting of only a ramp at each end. Significant cost reductions. If the ramps are built from dirt, no environmental issues. And it definitely provides incentive for motorists traveling below the speed limit to step on it.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 03, 2025, 04:02:10 PM9-3-25: What are your favorite golf cart roads?
The one
near Bishopville SC (https://maps.app.goo.gl/W3M6HBKo9EHHMXB68) is on my bucket list.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
The Francis Scott Key Bridge was exemplary in this regard. As Scott Kozel has pointed out, the bridge's design recently limited highway travel across it quite a bit.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
A tunnel.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
wooden plank footbridge
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Shimer_College_bridge_club_1942.jpg/330px-Shimer_College_bridge_club_1942.jpg)
~ or ~(https://fretboardanatomy.com/wp-content/uploads/Something-BRIDGE-1024x293.png)
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
Stepping stones
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
"Ask me the questions bridge keeper, I'm not afraid"
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
Obviously it's cable stayed. That's why every single city makes it their flagship bridge, and it's totally not because of unoriginality or anything.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
Something like these is usually best:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Outsunny-7-ft-Metal-Arch-Garden-Bridge-with-Safety-Siderails-Decorative-Arc-Footbridge-844-774V00BN/329731019
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Kinbor-8ft-Outdoor-Metal-Garden-Bridge-Garden-Arch-Footbridge-with-2-Safety-Patterned-Siderails-Black/1231921767
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
(https://www.stringemporium.com/images/plywood-upright-bass-bridge.jpg)
And now it pleases me that a 'floating bridge' is both a highway thing and a music thing.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 02, 2025, 01:14:54 AM2025-09-02: What cities/towns/villages/communities need a 16-lane 85 MPH interstate bypass the most?
Lockhart, TX.
As it is, the 85 MPH bypass isn't an Interstate, and it's only eight lanes. We can do better! I say we designated it as I-835, and make both the mainline and frontage roadways four lanes each.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
I believe Alex calls it a sign bridge:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Approaching_Chicago%2C_Illinois%2C_Kennedy_Expressway%2C_I-90_and_I-94_Eastbound_%289179554643%29.jpg/1600px-Approaching_Chicago%2C_Illinois%2C_Kennedy_Expressway%2C_I-90_and_I-94_Eastbound_%289179554643%29.jpg?20170302025859)
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
Natural bridges. Natural arches are included for this purpose.
Saves a ton on construction costs. Unfortunately this reduces most limited access highway corridors to remote areas of Utah.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
One that goes too far.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 04, 2025, 11:06:20 AM9-4-25: What is the best type of bridge design to facilitate limited access highway travel?
A drawbridge, but you leave it half open all the time.
05 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/RU_road_sign_1.17.svg/330px-RU_road_sign_1.17.svg.png)(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/RU_road_sign_1.16.svg/330px-RU_road_sign_1.16.svg.png)
Quote from: kphoger on September 05, 2025, 09:24:25 AM05 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
Both are signs for camel crossings, but the top is for one-hump camels and the bottom is for two-humpers.
Quote from: kphoger on September 05, 2025, 09:24:25 AM05 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
Elevation: 3'
Elevation: 4'
Quote from: kphoger on September 05, 2025, 09:24:25 AM05 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
....
The sign on the left is warning you to use caution because you may encounter pregnant women. The sign on the right is warning you to keep your eyes on the road instead of staring at well-endowed women.
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 05, 2025, 09:45:18 AMThe sign on the left is warning you to use caution because you may encounter pregnant women. The sign on the right is warning you to keep your eyes on the road instead of staring at well-endowed women.
In many cases, those would be the same women. I wonder if they ever post the signs together.
Also... I now realize that, if the one on the right is a view of a woman's breasts from her own perspective looking down, then the one on the left is a view of a man's beer gut from
his own perspective looking down. Of course, that's not road-related...
Quote from: kphoger on September 05, 2025, 09:24:25 AM05 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
These are for households:
First one is a warning sign for your kid's pet guinea pig.
The second is a warning sign that Legos are on the floor.
Quote from: Mapmikey on September 05, 2025, 10:02:49 AMThese are for households
Interesting. I'd never heard of household-specific warning signs before.
Quote from: kphoger on September 05, 2025, 09:24:25 AM05 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/RU_road_sign_1.17.svg/330px-RU_road_sign_1.17.svg.png)(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/RU_road_sign_1.16.svg/330px-RU_road_sign_1.16.svg.png)
One big boob versus a pair of regular sized boobs.
LEFT: warning - blinding sunrise/sunset
RIGHT: warning - rutted pavement may contribute to hydroplaning
Quote from: kphoger on September 05, 2025, 09:24:25 AM05 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/RU_road_sign_1.17.svg/330px-RU_road_sign_1.17.svg.png)(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/RU_road_sign_1.16.svg/330px-RU_road_sign_1.16.svg.png)
Quote from: kphoger on September 05, 2025, 10:09:47 AMQuote from: Mapmikey on September 05, 2025, 10:02:49 AMThese are for households
Interesting. I'd never heard of household-specific warning signs before.
When I was 5 I used to put route and destination signage up in our apartment hall where each doorway was an intersection. I pretended the hallway was US 52-78 in the Charleston SC area.
If household warning signs are too far outside the box, these could be in South Florida- one is a satiated snake crossing and the other is an alligator crossing.
BTW, this is my favorite so far:
Quote from: jlam on September 05, 2025, 09:26:33 AMBoth are signs for camel crossings, but the top is for one-hump camels and the bottom is for two-humpers.
Quote from: kphoger on September 05, 2025, 10:09:47 AMQuote from: Mapmikey on September 05, 2025, 10:02:49 AMThese are for households
Interesting. I'd never heard of household-specific warning signs before.
About 30 years ago, my brother's fraternity down in Williamsburg had a big warning sign on the bathroom door. It said, of course, "NO DUMPING."
Mild massage
Deep tissue massage
Quote from: kphoger on September 05, 2025, 09:24:25 AM05 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
One of those pimples is gonna be messier to pop.
9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Quote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Give the offending owners the Human Centipede treatment.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Extensive AI algorithms installed into every road, which if they detect a car, deploy large tire spikes that disable the car after 3 seconds of continued occupancy, avoiding collateral.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Every mass transit system has underserved areas. Assign the car to one of them and attach appropriate signs ("228 Downtown / Emporium" etc.) That car is a bus now, and its driver is a bus driver. And it cannot turn away any passenger with a fare.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Missiles.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Allow cars to self-identify as buses.
Give the car lanes to the buses
Quote from: pderocco on September 06, 2025, 02:23:34 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Allow cars to self-identify as buses.
You really nailed it. I don't think there is a worse answer than this.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Drones with graphing hooks.
Quote from: GaryV on September 06, 2025, 07:25:42 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Drones with graphing hooks.
One man's joke is another man's epiphany.
QuoteQuote from: MultiMillionMiler on January 04, 2023, 07:16:26 PM
Alright, I admit I had a little headache when writing all that so maybe I wasn't thinking straight. Let me go back to my most realistic, feasible, and needed aviation idea: The helicopter assistance for runaway trucks.
A military grade helicopter capable of moving at 300 mph would pace the truck, shoot down a solid steel cable that has a large cylindrical electromagnet at the bottom, plus 4 back up grappling hooks in case the current in the magma fails. For very large double rig or triple rig trailers, 2-3 helicopters may be used at each end to stabilize it while lifting it off the ground so its not dangling in the air.
A big circular red button would be installed right on the consol that the driver would just need to press, and it would instantly alert the nearest heliport that the truck needs help or is out of control.
On particularly risky stretches of road, such as I-70 through the Rockies, these helicopters would regularly fly in formation above the highway patrolling so they could assist faster if needed. Otherwise they would be on standby in the nearest aviation yard/heliport with military pilots ready to go at a moments notice. This button would be multi-purpose, also alerting the traffic news station about the runaway truck so they could notify drivers to get their cars off the highway as soon as possible just in case the helicopters failed. The button would be designed however so that it couldn't be activated just by bumping into it, (wasting all the time and effort) but it would be easily pressable in an actual emergency.
It is all fun and games in the bus lane until the helicopter with graphing hooks comes for you.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 06, 2025, 12:25:37 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Give the offending owners the Human Centipede treatment.
I need some studies of whether giving people more arms and legs might change the amount of distracted driving which may ensue. More hands on the wheel, but perhaps a phone, camera, coffee cup, water tumbler, pistol, and a book might decrease attention span. On the other hand, maybe reaction times will increase since left-foot braking and side bolstering during cornering might offset those demands by permitting greater speeds. Maybe compound eyes will improve coordination-related activities, but I think our brains can't yet cope with the amount of visual and tactical data so we might be limited to short trips before needing a break.
I propose a closed-course racing series with mutants to see if this works out before unleashing this on the streets and highways God built. We'll know for sure if lap times decrease while the ability to perform auto-biathlon tournaments while reciting poetry without on-track incidents if this was successful venture into forcing punctuated equilibrium or the true demise of human civilization.
And this my friends, is why I've known since 1982, that you can't put the game
Pole Position into a
Centipede coin-operated cabinet.
Quote from: formulanone on September 06, 2025, 12:44:44 PMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on September 06, 2025, 12:25:37 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Give the offending owners the Human Centipede treatment.
I need some studies of whether giving people more arms and legs might change the amount of distracted driving which may ensue. More hands on the wheel, but perhaps a phone, camera, coffee cup, water tumbler, pistol, and a book might decrease attention span. On the other hand, maybe reaction times will increase since left-foot braking and side bolstering during cornering might offset those demands by permitting greater speeds. Maybe compound eyes will improve coordination-related activities, but I think our brains can't yet cope with the amount of visual and tactical data so we might be limited to short trips before needing a break.
I propose a closed-course racing series with mutants to see if this works out before unleashing this on the streets and highways God built. We'll know for sure if lap times decrease while the ability to perform auto-biathlon tournaments while reciting poetry without on-track incidents if this was successful venture into forcing punctuated equilibrium or the true demise of human civilization.
And this my friends, is why I've known since 1982, that you can't put the game Pole Position into a Centipede coin-operated cabinet.
This is spit ball speculation on my part, but I would think that having someone's face sewn to the ass of another person would probably fully negate their ability to drive.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Put a giant plow on the front of the bus to shove the cars out of the way.
Quote from: pderocco on September 06, 2025, 02:23:34 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Allow cars to self-identify as buses.
Would they be called transbustites?
(Although that sounds like that guy who appeared on the Man Show about 20 or so years ago after getting breast implants in order to win a bet.)
Put a full-size opening in the back of the bus. Any car travelling in that lane must enter that opening.
Quote from: thspfc on September 06, 2025, 08:40:35 AMQuote from: GaryV on September 06, 2025, 07:25:42 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Drones with graphing hooks.
One man's joke is another man's epiphany.
QuoteQuote from: MultiMillionMiler on January 04, 2023, 07:16:26 PM
Alright, I admit I had a little headache when writing all that so maybe I wasn't thinking straight. Let me go back to my most realistic, feasible, and needed aviation idea: The helicopter assistance for runaway trucks.
A military grade helicopter capable of moving at 300 mph would pace the truck, shoot down a solid steel cable that has a large cylindrical electromagnet at the bottom, plus 4 back up grappling hooks in case the current in the magma fails. For very large double rig or triple rig trailers, 2-3 helicopters may be used at each end to stabilize it while lifting it off the ground so its not dangling in the air.
A big circular red button would be installed right on the consol that the driver would just need to press, and it would instantly alert the nearest heliport that the truck needs help or is out of control.
On particularly risky stretches of road, such as I-70 through the Rockies, these helicopters would regularly fly in formation above the highway patrolling so they could assist faster if needed. Otherwise they would be on standby in the nearest aviation yard/heliport with military pilots ready to go at a moments notice. This button would be multi-purpose, also alerting the traffic news station about the runaway truck so they could notify drivers to get their cars off the highway as soon as possible just in case the helicopters failed. The button would be designed however so that it couldn't be activated just by bumping into it, (wasting all the time and effort) but it would be easily pressable in an actual emergency.
Where do you think the joke came from?
Quote from: pderocco on September 06, 2025, 02:23:34 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Allow cars to self-identify as buses.
Anyone else think this joke is transphobic?
Quote from: vdeane on September 06, 2025, 04:22:27 PMQuote from: pderocco on September 06, 2025, 02:23:34 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Allow cars to self-identify as buses.
Anyone else think this joke is transphobic?
Hence my comment about it truly being the worst answer.
Quote from: vdeane on September 06, 2025, 04:22:27 PMQuote from: pderocco on September 06, 2025, 02:23:34 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Allow cars to self-identify as buses.
Anyone else think this joke is transphobic?
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 06, 2025, 03:04:51 PMQuote from: pderocco on September 06, 2025, 02:23:34 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Allow cars to self-identify as buses.
Would they be called transbustites?
(Although that sounds like that guy who appeared on the Man Show about 20 or so years ago after getting breast implants in order to win a bet.)
If it wasn't transphobic before that addition, it certainly is after it.
Quote from: vdeane on September 06, 2025, 04:22:27 PMWhere do you think the joke came from?
A user that self-identified as MutliMillionMiler, among many other aliases.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 05:38:44 PMQuote from: vdeane on September 06, 2025, 04:22:27 PMQuote from: pderocco on September 06, 2025, 02:23:34 AMQuote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Allow cars to self-identify as buses.
Anyone else think this joke is transphobic?
Hence my comment about it truly being the worst answer.
Maybe I'm too cynical, but I assumed that he actually believed such about trans people and wasn't poking fun at how people believe such things. This year hasn't been good for maintaining one's faith in humanity.
Quote from: thspfc on September 06, 2025, 09:16:16 PMQuote from: vdeane on September 06, 2025, 04:22:27 PMWhere do you think the joke came from?
A user that self-identified as MutliMillionMiler, among many other aliases.
I thought it was people making fun of MMM.
Quote from: vdeane on September 06, 2025, 04:22:27 PMAnyone else think this joke is transphobic?
Only if you don't think cars should be allowed to self-identify as buses. If you don't, then
you're the transphobic one.
(By the way, in this context, shouldn't we be using the word
transitphobic instead?)
9/7/2025
What roads have too high of a speed limit?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 07, 2025, 01:31:57 AM9/7/2025
What roads have too high of a speed limit?
The Road to Hell, given the pavement.
Residential roads with a speed limit of 20.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 07, 2025, 01:31:57 AM9/7/2025
What roads have too high of a speed limit?
Highway 420.
Pebbly Beach Road in Avalon, California. Those golf cart drivers are savages and the Scion iQs might actually be shifting.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 07, 2025, 01:31:57 AM9/7/2025
What roads have too high of a speed limit?
The Pennsylvania Turnpike, with all those "flip-your-car" curves.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 07, 2025, 01:31:57 AM9/7/2025
What roads have too high of a speed limit?
The Capital Beltway. It's posted at 55 mph. Everyone exceeds that, so clearly they need to lower it to get people to take it seriously.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 07, 2025, 01:31:57 AM9/7/2025
What roads have too high of a speed limit?
The Kessel Run. They need to drop it down a parsec or two.
Quote from: xonhulu on September 07, 2025, 07:21:28 PMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on September 07, 2025, 01:31:57 AM9/7/2025
What roads have too high of a speed limit?
The Kessel Run. They need to drop it down a parser or two.
If they just said par/sec, then it would make sense: the length of an average golf round divided by time. But I suppose the incongruity of yards ≠ meters might create some issues, and suddenly you're trying to land the Millennium Glider on a disc golf course due to an error in calculating plutonium decay.
Airport runways
Quote from: formulanone on September 07, 2025, 07:30:23 PMQuote from: xonhulu on September 07, 2025, 07:21:28 PMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on September 07, 2025, 01:31:57 AM9/7/2025
What roads have too high of a speed limit?
The Kessel Run. They need to drop it down a parser or two.
If they just said par/sec, then it would make sense: the length of an average golf round divided by time. But I suppose the incongruity of yards ≠ meters might create some issues, and suddenly you're trying to land the Millennium Glider on a disc golf course due to an error in calculating plutonium decay.
It never occurred to me that Han actually meant par/sec, but it makes perfect sense now. If I had played the Kessel Country Club course at even par in 1.5 seconds, then I'd randomly work it into every conversation, too.
9/8/2025
Why are interstates ending in 0 or 5 normally longer than others?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 07, 2025, 01:31:57 AM9/7/2025
What roads have too high of a speed limit?
Any interstate with a posted speed limit of 45mph or less within a major city. CLEARLY there's too many accidents and we need to lower the speed limit more.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 08, 2025, 01:39:42 AM9/8/2025
Why are north/south interstates odd-numbered and east/west interstates even-numbered?
It's just a coincidence.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 08, 2025, 01:39:42 AM9/8/2025
Why are north/south interstates odd-numbered and east/west interstates even-numbered?
Didn't we already do a question like this?
Quote from: xonhulu on September 08, 2025, 03:01:42 AMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on September 08, 2025, 01:39:42 AM9/8/2025
Why are north/south interstates odd-numbered and east/west interstates even-numbered?
Didn't we already do a question like this?
It was a month or two ago, but we did. I remember the 0-pi answer.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 08, 2025, 03:24:15 AMQuote from: xonhulu on September 08, 2025, 03:01:42 AMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on September 08, 2025, 01:39:42 AM9/8/2025
Why are north/south interstates odd-numbered and east/west interstates even-numbered?
Didn't we already do a question like this?
It was a month or two ago, but we did. I remember the 0-pi answer.
Oops, edited my question to a new one.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 08, 2025, 04:44:16 AMQuote from: Sapphuby on September 08, 2025, 03:24:15 AMQuote from: xonhulu on September 08, 2025, 03:01:42 AMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on September 08, 2025, 01:39:42 AM9/8/2025
Why are north/south interstates odd-numbered and east/west interstates even-numbered?
Didn't we already do a question like this?
It was a month or two ago, but we did. I remember the 0-pi answer.
Oops, edited my question to a new one.
My answer still applies.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Make it legal for anyone to sit in the back seat of the car if they have a valid fare card. The driver would then be required to bring the transit riders to their requested stop. (If they don't, the driver would be required to pay the rider $10,000.)
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 08, 2025, 01:39:42 AM9/8/2025
Why are interstates ending in 0 or 5 normally longer than others?
Mainline Interstates were supposed to all be multiples of 10 up to 990, with auxiliary interstates ending with the other 9 digits. However to save money on smaller signs, the government later changed the numbering scheme to make major routes 2 digits and auxiliary routes 3 digits like it is today. The routes ending in 10 today were the original routes built before the numbering change (all east-west to allow military mobilization to the coast) and then the x5's fell into place as trade routes. This is why NAFTA is five letter acronym, as trade routes ended in 5 and military routes ended in zero (to symbolize the number of wars won since the interstates were implemented).
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 07, 2025, 01:31:57 AM9/7/2025
What roads have too high of a speed limit?
All roads with Crash prone 'modern roundabouts'.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 08, 2025, 01:39:42 AM9/8/2025
Why are interstates ending in 0 or 5 normally longer than others?
So they can fit more cars on them.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 08, 2025, 01:39:42 AM9/8/2025
Why are interstates ending in 0 or 5 normally longer than others?
Because they're the easiest numbers to express using tally marks.
Quote from: xonhulu on September 08, 2025, 01:48:25 PMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on September 08, 2025, 01:39:42 AM9/8/2025
Why are interstates ending in 0 or 5 normally longer than others?
Because they're the easiest numbers to express using tally marks.
I think this is needed.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 08, 2025, 01:39:42 AM9/8/2025
Why are interstates ending in 0 or 5 normally longer than others?
the align with the speed limits.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 08, 2025, 01:39:42 AM9/8/2025
Why are interstates ending in 0 or 5 normally longer than others?
Originally, they wanted all the routes to stretch all over the country, like the US routes were doing at the time, but then decided to cut back on a lot of mileage so that those with numbers divisible by 5 could be the dominant ones.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 08, 2025, 01:39:42 AM9/8/2025
Why are interstates ending in 0 or 5 normally longer than others?
It's a relic of the system's having been created in BASIC.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 08, 2025, 01:39:42 AM9/8/2025
Why are interstates ending in 0 or 5 normally longer than others?
So a TikTok video creator could wow the normals with Interstate factoids in 2024.
They originally planned a bunch of cross-country routes, and numbered them 1 to 9 from south to north. Then, they realized they really ought to have a bunch of Mexico or Gulf to Canada routes, and numbered them 0.5, 1.5, 2.5, up to 9.5. Eventually, they were so in love with the idea of Interstate Highways that they decided to create a whole slew of other shorter routes. Then someone finally came up with the bright idea of multiplying all the route numbers by 10 to get rid of all those decimal points.
9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
On all the vertical overhead & roadside signs.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
Somewhere in Illinois.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
Wherever your master brake cylinder has failed you.
Quote from: xonhulu on September 09, 2025, 01:12:03 AMQuote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
On all the vertical overhead & roadside signs.
Especially the segment of former US 66 over Mount Illinois. I'm shocked that AASHO was cool with a US Route crossing through a tundra environment like that. That 40% descent from the southern slope approaching the Missouri state line is quite something. Indeed, Illinois is "not flat!"
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
I-695 / Francis Scott Key Bridge
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 09, 2025, 08:00:45 AMQuote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
I-695 / Francis Scott Key Bridge
Yeah, I heard that it goes from 25 feet above sea level, to sea level, in the matter of inches.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
Bajo Nuevo Bank, near the lighthouse on Low Cay.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
For Interstates, it's
this curb on I-44 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/jy1Yj2rnqVFXsjKS9).
For US Routes, it's
this one on US-51 (https://maps.app.goo.gl/JKJaHq7WP7h9syMK9).
Quote from: LilianaUwU on September 06, 2025, 12:23:52 AM9/6/2025:
What should be done about cars using bus-only lanes?
Quote from: pderocco on September 06, 2025, 02:23:34 AMAllow cars to self-identify as buses.
Like this:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Smart_Bus_%2830086480814%29.jpg/960px-Smart_Bus_%2830086480814%29.jpg)
(https://i.redd.it/4k1ujoeqf4141.jpg)
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
Milemarker 820 on I-10 in TX.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
US-441 heading up to Mount Dora, Florida.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
Anywhere there is a restaurant, rest area, or store that sells ready-to-drink tea.
Quote from: CoreySamson on September 09, 2025, 01:38:51 PMMilemarker 820 on I-10 in TX.
Is Jenkins Road closed for the winter yet? I drove it in April once, and I was glad my truck had both snow tires and a separate aftermarket transmission cooler.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
US-6, mile marker 214, near Stoung (https://maps.app.goo.gl/RGyxDF6Y2648me6d7)
Quote from: kphoger on September 09, 2025, 02:09:31 PMQuote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
US-6, mile marker 214, near Stoung (https://maps.app.goo.gl/RGyxDF6Y2648me6d7)
Wow. US-6 is back to being the longest route.
Quote from: pderocco on September 09, 2025, 02:11:22 PMWow. US-6 is back to being the longest route.
Not everyone considers them to be all one route.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
Do they grade on a curve? (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Alps+Road+Elementary+School/@33.9455024,-83.4180651,15.25z/data=!3m1!5s0x88f66d6e316b5721:0xebd1f6c2aec143b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x88f66d6e4883b099:0x12273869d046880b!8m2!3d33.9438972!4d-83.407875!16s%2Fm%2F0763h1p!5m1!1e4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDkwMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
On top of a five-level stack interchange in Dallas.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on September 09, 2025, 01:00:56 AM9-9-25: Where is the steepest grade on an Interstate or US Route located?
On a bridge over the rivers...
September 10, 2025:
Three of the four states that consider themselves commonwealths (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia) have a state route numbered 28 that is at least part freeway. Why is Kentucky a holdout?
Quote from: hotdogPi on September 10, 2025, 05:47:59 AMSeptember 10, 2025:
Three of the four states that consider themselves commonwealths (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia) have a state route numbered 28 that is at least part freeway. Why is Kentucky a holdout?
Too chicken that they will be fried.
Quote from: hotdogPi on September 10, 2025, 05:47:59 AMSeptember 10, 2025:
Three of the four states that consider themselves commonwealths (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia) have a state route numbered 28 that is at least part freeway. Why is Kentucky a holdout?
They have one, but they don't like to admit it. It knows what it did.
Quote from: hotdogPi on September 10, 2025, 05:47:59 AMSeptember 10, 2025:
Three of the four states that consider themselves commonwealths (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia) have a state route numbered 28 that is at least part freeway. Why is Kentucky a holdout?
They don't want ethanman62187 showing up to lecture them on turning said route into an Interstate highway with an 85-mph speed limit and authorizing people to drive faster than the posted speed limit (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=5504.msg121088#msg121088).
Edited to add: I notice that in the thread I linked, one user said I-366 should be somewhere in Kentucky.
Quote from: hotdogPi on September 10, 2025, 05:47:59 AMSeptember 10, 2025:
Three of the four states that consider themselves commonwealths (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia) have a state route numbered 28 that is at least part freeway. Why is Kentucky a holdout?
The infamous Booneville freeway revolts killed it
Quote from: hotdogPi on September 10, 2025, 05:47:59 AMSeptember 10, 2025:
Three of the four states that consider themselves commonwealths (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia) have a state route numbered 28 that is at least part freeway. Why is Kentucky a holdout?
Wealth isn't as common in Kentucky and thus no highway numbered 28.
Quote from: hotdogPi on September 10, 2025, 05:47:59 AMSeptember 10, 2025:
Three of the four states that consider themselves commonwealths (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia) have a state route numbered 28 that is at least part freeway. Why is Kentucky a holdout?
It was planned for a freeway between congressional districts KY-02 and IN-08 but got named for William H Natcher instead
Quote from: hotdogPi on September 10, 2025, 05:47:59 AMSeptember 10, 2025:
Three of the four states that consider themselves commonwealths (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia) have a state route numbered 28 that is at least part freeway. Why is Kentucky a holdout?
The eleven miles from KY-451 to Buckhorn city limits used to be a two-lane freeway with full access control. However, the RIROs at the KY-1110 junction and at the Buckhorn Lake access road were less than ideal and, when the ACLU filed suit claiming that the lack of full interchange access to Gays Creeks constituted a violation of the LGBT community's civil rights, it was decided that downgrading the highway to a surface road was preferable to converting the RIROs into full interchanges.
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 10, 2025, 08:11:50 AMQuote from: hotdogPi on September 10, 2025, 05:47:59 AMSeptember 10, 2025:
Three of the four states that consider themselves commonwealths (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia) have a state route numbered 28 that is at least part freeway. Why is Kentucky a holdout?
The infamous Booneville freeway revolts killed it
Damned Nimbyllies!
Quote from: hotdogPi on September 10, 2025, 05:47:59 AMSeptember 10, 2025:
Three of the four states that consider themselves commonwealths (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia) have a state route numbered 28 that is at least part freeway. Why is Kentucky a holdout?
The east end would have been a Hazard.
Quote from: hotdogPi on September 10, 2025, 05:47:59 AMSeptember 10, 2025:
Three of the four states that consider themselves commonwealths (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia) have a state route numbered 28 that is at least part freeway. Why is Kentucky a holdout?
Hal Rogers forgot to put in an earmark for that one.
September 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
Sharon
Cheryl
Elizabeth
Teresa
Lori
Kathy
Diane
Carol
Laura
Debbie
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
EB: "Nowhere important"
WB: "You can't get there from here"
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
Given the date of your post, Shanksville and World Trade Center.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
Ohio / other Midwest States
New York / other New England States
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
WB = Pacific Ocean
EB = Atlantic Ocean
I'm assuming it will be a coat to cost highway at that point.
WB = London
EB = London
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
Churchill
Alaska
Mexico
Portland
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
Everybody says that Pennsylvania uses far too many control cities, and I agree.
EB: Delaware Water Gap
WB: Sharon
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
EB: World Trade Center
WB: Pentagon
Quote from: xonhulu on August 22, 2025, 05:10:22 PMQuote from: kphoger on August 22, 2025, 09:17:28 AM22 AUG 2025:
Propose a new and improved list of control cities for I-70.
All signs read "Just look at a map, idiot!"
"What's a map, grandpa?"
Quote from: thspfc on September 11, 2025, 12:24:55 PMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
EB: World Trade Center
WB: Pentagon
wow uh yeah this is the one
Quote from: kphoger on September 11, 2025, 10:10:36 AMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
WB = Pacific Ocean
EB = Atlantic Ocean
How about Pacific Beaches and Atlantic Beaches?
Quote from: pderocco on September 11, 2025, 02:26:27 PMHow about Pacific Beaches and Atlantic Beaches?
No. It isn't truly a coat to cost highway if the pavement doesn't end underwater. Just the beach isn't good enough.
Quote from: kphoger on September 11, 2025, 02:41:38 PMQuote from: pderocco on September 11, 2025, 02:26:27 PMHow about Pacific Beaches and Atlantic Beaches?
No. It isn't truly a coat to cost highway if the pavement doesn't end underwater. Just the beach isn't good enough.
I-80 snubbing Honolulu and Lisbon is unacceptable
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
Westbound, it should be Mogul.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
THRU TRAFFIC
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
EB: New Jersey
WB: California
WB: milepost 420 in Nebraska
EB: milepost 69.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
WB: Other Allegheny Cities
EB: Shore Points, Eventually
Quote from: hotdogPi on September 10, 2025, 05:47:59 AMSeptember 10, 2025:
Three of the four states that consider themselves commonwealths (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia) have a state route numbered 28 that is at least part freeway. Why is Kentucky a holdout?
That number is currently reserved for the future downgrading of a certain freeway through downtown Louisville. (8664, anyone?)
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 11, 2025, 09:39:45 AMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on September 11, 2025, 04:01:22 AMSeptember 11th, 2025
What should be the control cities on I-80 in Pennsylvania?
Ohio / other Midwest States
New York / other New England States
Ohio Turnpike/California
NJTP/New York
12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
Quote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 09:53:51 AM12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
Replace the center yellow line with the speed limit using the same color scheme as resistors to convert numbers to colors.
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Quote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 09:53:51 AM12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
Pink: The paths of the 3-day cancer walks
Black: Eh, you can't see it anyway, so what does it matter?
Red: Fire truck and ambulance lanes
Purple: Winery ahead
Green: Can only be used on a yellow brick road
Rainbow: No, forget it, I don't wanna get banned.
Dashed navy blue lines on a divided highway means drunk driving up to .30 is legal in the left lane.
Quote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 09:53:51 AM12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
All pavement markings would be replaced by black-and-white QR codes. Drivers will scan the QR codes to figure out what lane to be in, either through their phone, or their car's onboard camera system
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 12, 2025, 11:34:31 AMAll pavement markings would be replaced by black-and-white QR codes. Drivers will scan the QR codes to figure out what lane to be in, either through their phone, or their car's onboard camera system
But what about the colors? That's the question.
Quote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 11:36:16 AMQuote from: PColumbus73 on September 12, 2025, 11:34:31 AMAll pavement markings would be replaced by black-and-white QR codes. Drivers will scan the QR codes to figure out what lane to be in, either through their phone, or their car's onboard camera system
But what about the colors? That's the question.
Physical pavement markings (QR codes) would be black-and-white, digital pavement markings would be unregulated and left to the local municipality.
White Snow - Passing allowed if it's snowing
Natural White - Passing allowed if you honk
Gypsum - Passing only allowed on Tuesdays
White Sand - Passing allowed by SUVs
Sanctuary - Passing allowed if your speed is a prime number
Mortar - Passing allowed if there's a kid in the car
Sunbleached - Passing allowed if the sun is out
White Sesame - Passing allowed if you have a vanity plate
Mushroom - Passing allowed if you're wearing a tank top
Limewash - Passing allowed by cars with leather seats
(These are all 'expert picks' on Shermin-Williams white paint page.)
Quote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 09:53:51 AM12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
RED = center stripe, passing allowed in both directions
GREEN = center stripe, no passing allowed in either direction
WHITE = center stripe, passing allowed in north/east direction only
BLUE = center stripe, passing allowed in south/west direction only
BLACK = edge line, no parking restrictions
VIOLET = edge line, no parking allowed
ORANGE = edge line, parking restrictions
GREY = fire lane
PINK = bicycle lane
BROWN = deceleration lane
YELLOW = acceleration lane
RAINBOW = parking spaces
Quote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 09:53:51 AM12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
Thin Red Line: Only astrophage may pass
Orange: To add ✨style✨
Green: For usage on Tree Road USA roads
Blue: Go Blue, beat OSU
Purple: A moderator has locked this road
#FEFFFF: Bridge Out 1/2 Mile
Morse: To help out blind drivers
Red/White: Striping only for use on Candy Cane Lane
Quote from: jlam on September 12, 2025, 12:12:36 PMQuote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 09:53:51 AM12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
....
Purple: A moderator has locked this road
....
Outstanding. :-D
Quote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 11:49:11 AMWHITE = center stripe, passing allowed in north/east direction only
BLUE = center stripe, passing allowed in south/west direction only
You give drivers way too much credit if you think all of them know what direction they are going.
Quote from: GaryV on September 12, 2025, 12:27:22 PMQuote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 11:49:11 AMWHITE = center stripe, passing allowed in north/east direction only
BLUE = center stripe, passing allowed in south/west direction only
You give drivers way too much credit if you think all of them know what direction they are going.
Hence we're looking for the worst answer in this thread.
Quote from: GaryV on September 12, 2025, 12:27:22 PMYou give drivers way too much credit if you think all of them know what direction they are going.
Quote from: JayhawkCO on September 12, 2025, 12:28:03 PMHence we're looking for the worst answer in this thread.
This guy gets it.
I realized I missed three. Added below.
Quote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 11:49:11 AMRED = center stripe, passing allowed in both directions
GREEN = center stripe, no passing allowed in either direction
WHITE = center stripe, passing allowed in north/east direction only
BLUE = center stripe, passing allowed in south/west direction only
LIME = lane line on multi-lane roadway, lane changes allowed
CYAN = lane line on multi-lane roadway, lane changes not allowed
BLACK = edge line, no parking restrictions
VIOLET = edge line, no parking allowed
ORANGE = edge line, parking restrictions
GREY = fire lane
PINK = bicycle lane
BROWN = deceleration lane
YELLOW = acceleration lane
MAGENTA = unmarked crosswalk (edge line color only)
RAINBOW = parking spaces
Quote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 09:53:51 AM12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
Why stop at colors? There should be also new painted symbols:
Heart (pink): Road rage prohibited
Star (gold with glitter): Celebrities only
Gear symbol (camouflage): Four-wheel drive only, can be used on unpaved roads as well
Banana (bright yellow): Slippery road
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 12, 2025, 02:24:58 PMWhy stop at colors? There should be also new painted symbols:
Heart (pink): Road rage prohibited
Star (gold with glitter): Celebrities only
Gear symbol (camouflage): Four-wheel drive only, can be used on unpaved roads as well
Banana (bright yellow): Slippery road
I'm assuming that the stripes will be made of those symbols, correct?
Other possibilities:
Mushroom (red and white): high speed road
Handgun (black with red droplets): school zone
[remember the thread topic]Dollar sign (green): Pennsylvania Turnpike
Snowflake (white): drivers from the South prohibited
Quote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 09:53:51 AM12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
Canary Yellow: passing allowed
Bright Yellow: no passing allowed
Quote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 02:48:12 PMQuote from: PColumbus73 on September 12, 2025, 02:24:58 PMWhy stop at colors? There should be also new painted symbols:
Heart (pink): Road rage prohibited
Star (gold with glitter): Celebrities only
Gear symbol (camouflage): Four-wheel drive only, can be used on unpaved roads as well
Banana (bright yellow): Slippery road
I'm assuming that the stripes will be made of those symbols, correct?
Other possibilities:
Mushroom (red and white): high speed road
Handgun (black with red droplets): school zone [remember the thread topic]
Dollar sign (green): Pennsylvania Turnpike
Snowflake (white): drivers from the South prohibited
Of course, mixing colors would be garish.
Teardrop (light blue): Crying permitted
Battleship gray - Do the Hokey Pokey.
Quote from: Big John on September 12, 2025, 05:08:11 PMBattleship gray - Do the Hokey Pokey.
It's all about doing a U-turn, right?
Quote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 09:53:51 AM12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
School zones should be striped with the colors of the school's sports teams to promote local pride.
Quote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 09:53:51 AM12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
Blue: we glaze the cops.
9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
Quote from: Henry on September 13, 2025, 10:52:02 AM9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
I-10 in Texas. A toll booth should be added at MM 154. For literally no reason at all.
Quote from: NE2 on September 12, 2025, 10:23:00 PMwe glaze the cops.
Do glazed cops eat glazed doughnuts :hmmm:
Quote from: kphoger on September 13, 2025, 11:01:14 AMQuote from: NE2 on September 12, 2025, 10:23:00 PMwe glaze the cops.
Do glazed cops eat glazed doughnuts :hmmm:
I believe this is a reference to an initiation ritual at the Alanland National Aeronautical Law Service (ANALS). Cadets who are about to graduate from the POST Academy are basted in a sugary glaze by their instructors prior to being pinned.
Quote from: Henry on September 13, 2025, 10:52:02 AM9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
You're clearly looking for a freeway with very COLD lanes, such as Route 29 in northern Finland or a theoretical NWT-402 to the gulags in Souky
Quote from: Henry on September 13, 2025, 10:52:02 AM9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
The abandoned PA 23 freeway out of Lancaster. The livestock that utilize it should not be allowed to be free range.
Quote from: Henry on September 13, 2025, 10:52:02 AM9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
I-180 in Illinois. The tolls could be used to fund construction of the Hypotenuse.
Quote from: IowaTraveler on September 13, 2025, 01:35:58 PMQuote from: Henry on September 13, 2025, 10:52:02 AM9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
I-180 in Illinois. The tolls could be used to fund construction of the Hypotenuse.
This is the answer.
Quote from: Henry on September 13, 2025, 10:52:02 AM9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
CA 77
Quote from: Henry on September 13, 2025, 10:52:02 AM9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
I-75/85 in Downtown Atlanta, cash-only mainline toll plazas
Quote from: IowaTraveler on September 13, 2025, 01:35:58 PMQuote from: Henry on September 13, 2025, 10:52:02 AM9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
I-180 in Illinois. The tolls could be used to fund construction of the Hypotenuse.
No, I-180 in Cheyenne WY. The tolls could be used to fund construction of a real I-180.
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 13, 2025, 04:57:11 PMQuote from: Henry on September 13, 2025, 10:52:02 AM9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
I-75/85 in Downtown Atlanta, cash-only mainline toll plazas
Make it coins only, so you can throw your fare into the basket without fear it will blow away. Bring your pennies jar.
Quote from: Henry on September 13, 2025, 10:52:02 AM9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
All off ramps into rest areas. You pee, you pay.
Quote from: Henry on September 13, 2025, 10:52:02 AM9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
Quote from: pderocco on September 13, 2025, 06:41:30 PMI-180 in Cheyenne WY.
Does not qualify. Try again.
Quote from: Henry on September 13, 2025, 10:52:02 AM9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
Every freeway within the Chicagoland region...
Alternative answer: I-90 or I-94 coming from Illinois into Wisconsin
Quote from: Great Lakes Roads on September 13, 2025, 08:04:38 PMQuote from: Henry on September 13, 2025, 10:52:02 AM9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
Every freeway within the Chicagoland region...
Alternative answer: I-90 or I-94 coming from Illinois into Wisconsin
In the latter case, the toll only applies to cars with Illinois plates. Toll revenue goes to the Packers, Brewers, and Bucks so they can sign more free agents.
Quote from: Henry on September 13, 2025, 10:52:02 AM9/13/2025:
What freeway should have tolls added to it? (HOT lanes don't count)
All of them. Need to stop letting freeloaders onto highways that have to be maintained because of them.
Quote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 09:53:51 AM12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
For each of CMYK, establish 10 levels of intensity. This creates a 10,000-color colorspace. Each of America's 10,000 largest cities are assigned one of these colors, which is then used in lieu of a control city. Every road thus has double lines, with the one closest to you belonging to your direction of travel.
Travelers can discover the meaning of each color by following the line and seeing what city it leads to.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 14, 2025, 09:14:28 AMQuote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 09:53:51 AM12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
For each of CMYK, establish 10 levels of intensity. This creates a 10,000-color colorspace. Each of America's 10,000 largest cities are assigned one of these colors, which is then used in lieu of a control city. Every road thus has double lines, with the one closest to you belonging to your direction of travel.
Travelers can discover the meaning of each color by following the line and seeing what city it leads to.
Though impractical and not useful to those with colorblindness; I...don't hate it.
Quote from: formulanone on September 14, 2025, 09:19:30 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on September 14, 2025, 09:14:28 AMQuote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 09:53:51 AM12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
For each of CMYK, establish 10 levels of intensity. This creates a 10,000-color colorspace. Each of America's 10,000 largest cities are assigned one of these colors, which is then used in lieu of a control city. Every road thus has double lines, with the one closest to you belonging to your direction of travel.
Travelers can discover the meaning of each color by following the line and seeing what city it leads to.
Though impractical and not useful to those with colorblindness; I...don't hate it.
Well, I simplified it slightly. There will only be colors assigned to the 9,999 largest cities in America. The 10,000th color, a shade of lime green, will be assigned to a city of 2,043 along a freeway in the center part of the country.
Quote from: formulanone on September 14, 2025, 09:19:30 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on September 14, 2025, 09:14:28 AMQuote from: kphoger on September 12, 2025, 09:53:51 AM12 SEP 2025
There are too few colors of road striping. Make a new list with more stripe colors and what they should mean.
For each of CMYK, establish 10 levels of intensity. This creates a 10,000-color colorspace. Each of America's 10,000 largest cities are assigned one of these colors, which is then used in lieu of a control city. Every road thus has double lines, with the one closest to you belonging to your direction of travel.
Travelers can discover the meaning of each color by following the line and seeing what city it leads to.
Though impractical and not useful to those with colorblindness; I...don't hate it.
Let's include a small town in Kentucky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz,_Kentucky), and its line can be yellow (and made of bricks) for easy following
9/14/25
What Interstate highways should be widened to 6 lanes?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 14, 2025, 09:16:33 PM9/14/25
What Interstate highways should be widened to 6 lanes?
https://wiki.aaroads.com/wiki/E5_(Ecuador)
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 14, 2025, 09:16:33 PM9/14/25
What Interstate highways should be widened to 6 lanes?
The eastern end of I-A1
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 14, 2025, 09:16:33 PM9/14/25
What Interstate highways should be widened to 6 lanes?
The Katy Freeway in Houston.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 14, 2025, 09:16:33 PM9/14/25
What Interstate highways should be widened to 6 lanes?
I-H3
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 14, 2025, 09:16:33 PM9/14/25
What Interstate highways should be widened to 6 lanes?
The I-93 Super-Two
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 14, 2025, 09:16:33 PM9/14/25
What Interstate highways should be widened to 6 lanes?
All of them. So no 2 trucks can ever clog things up with micro-passing - even if there's very low truck traffic. And don't let me get started on RV's!
9/15/2025
If carpools are effective at reducing traffic congestion, what other bodies of water should we try?
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 15, 2025, 07:59:50 AM9/15/2025
If carpools are effective at reducing traffic congestion, what other bodies of water should we try?
Deadpool
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 15, 2025, 07:59:50 AM9/15/2025
If carpools are effective at reducing traffic congestion, what other bodies of water should we try?
Carbogs
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 14, 2025, 09:16:33 PM9/14/25
What Interstate highways should be widened to 6 lanes?
The sprjus4/Beltway Memorial Segment of Interstate 95 between DC and Richmond. Sections with more than six overall shall be narrowed to no more than three lanes per side.
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 15, 2025, 07:59:50 AM9/15/2025
If carpools are effective at reducing traffic congestion, what other bodies of water should we try?
Toilets. Encouraging people to deal with such matters in the car while commuting will improve workplace productivity by eliminating the need to "pay a visit" upon arrival at the office.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 14, 2025, 09:16:33 PM9/14/25
What Interstate highways should be widened to 6 lanes?
I-29 from Grand Forks to the Canadian border.
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 15, 2025, 07:59:50 AM9/15/2025
If carpools are effective at reducing traffic congestion, what other bodies of water should we try?
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Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 15, 2025, 07:59:50 AM9/15/2025
If carpools are effective at reducing traffic congestion, what other bodies of water should we try?
Car nasal spray
It works on noses; why not traffic?
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 15, 2025, 07:59:50 AMIf carpools are effective at reducing traffic congestion, what other bodies of water should we try?
Office water coolers
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 15, 2025, 07:59:50 AM9/15/2025
If carpools are effective at reducing traffic congestion, what other bodies of water should we try?
Dead Sea
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 15, 2025, 07:59:50 AM9/15/2025
If carpools are effective at reducing traffic congestion, what other bodies of water should we try?
Fords.
Sensors will detect when traffic congestion increases above a certain threshold. At that point, valves will automatically open in hydrants positioned alongside the highway. Water will then fill the fords.
This will reduce traffic congestion because, as traffic slows down for the water crossing and the tailback extends to the previous interchange, more and more drivers will divert onto the intersecting highway instead of continuing on the congested one.
Once traffic congestion has dropped below a certain threshold, drains in the pavement will open up and the water will drain out.
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 15, 2025, 07:59:50 AM9/15/2025
If carpools are effective at reducing traffic congestion, what other bodies of water should we try?
Catastrophic floods.
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 15, 2025, 07:59:50 AM9/15/2025
If carpools are effective at reducing traffic congestion, what other bodies of water should we try?
Carsinks should work at rinsing away all the traffic congestion.
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 15, 2025, 07:59:50 AM9/15/2025
If carpools are effective at reducing traffic congestion, what other bodies of water should we try?
Truckpools!
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 14, 2025, 09:16:33 PM9/14/25
What Interstate highways should be widened to 6 lanes?
I-78 in the Holland Tunnel.
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 15, 2025, 07:59:50 AM9/15/2025
If carpools are effective at reducing traffic congestion, what other bodies of water should we try?
A car-Patapsco River would save money on rebuilding the Key Bridge.
9/16/25
What bridges in America should not have been built?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 16, 2025, 02:53:32 AM9/16/25
What bridges in America should not have been built?
Yes.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 16, 2025, 02:53:32 AM9/16/25
What bridges in America should not have been built?
Bering Land.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 16, 2025, 02:53:32 AM9/16/25
What bridges in America should not have been built?
Nash Bridges.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 16, 2025, 02:53:32 AM9/16/25
What bridges in America should not have been built?
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 16, 2025, 02:53:32 AM9/16/25
What bridges in America should not have been built?
The American Legion Bridge, hence why we have a dedicated thread about destroying it.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 16, 2025, 02:53:32 AM9/16/25
What bridges in America should not have been built?
The bridge to the future.
Quote from: Bill Clinton — 29 AUG 1996 — Remarks Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in ChicagoWe need to build a bridge to the future ... So tonight, tonight let us resolve to build that bridge to the 21st century, to meet our challenges and protect our values. Let us build a bridge to help our parents raise their children, to help young people and adults to get the education and training they need, to make our streets safer, to help Americans succeed at home and at work, to break the cycle of poverty and dependence, to protect our environment for generations to come, and to maintain our world leadership for peace and freedom. Let us resolve to build that bridge ... I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we expand opportunity through education, where computers are as much a part of the classroom as blackboards, where highly trained teachers demand peak performance from our students, where every 8-year-old can point to a book and say, "I can read it myself." ... I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we create a strong and growing economy to preserve the legacy of opportunity for the next generation, by balancing our budget in a way that protects our values and ensuring that every family will be able to own and protect the value of their most important asset, their home ... I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent under class, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile. And they're not forgotten anymore ... I want to build a bridge to the 21st century where our children are not killing other children anymore, where children's lives are not shattered by violence at home or in the schoolyard, where a generation of young people are not left to raise themselves on the streets ... I want to build a bridge to the 21st century with a strong American community, beginning with strong families, an America where all children are cherished and protected from destructive forces, where parents can succeed at home and at work ... I want to build a bridge to the 21st century with a clean and safe environment ... I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that makes sure we are still the nation with the world's strongest defense, that our foreign policy still advances the values of our American community in the community of nations. Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world's indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace, and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 16, 2025, 02:53:32 AM9/16/25
What bridges in America should not have been built?
Any bridge on Ventura Highway.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 16, 2025, 02:53:32 AM9/16/25
What bridges in America should not have been built?
Before Beltway beats me to it...the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 16, 2025, 02:53:32 AM9/16/25
What bridges in America should not have been built?
The ones that didn't show pre-existing demand for the crossing through traffic counts or the like and were built to induce demand.
Quote from: kphoger on September 16, 2025, 09:16:38 AMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on September 16, 2025, 02:53:32 AM9/16/25
What bridges in America should not have been built?
The bridge to the future.
Quote from: Bill Clinton — 29 AUG 1996 — Remarks Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in ChicagoWe need to build a bridge to the future ... So tonight, tonight let us resolve to build that bridge to the 21st century, to meet our challenges and protect our values. Let us build a bridge to help our parents raise their children, to help young people and adults to get the education and training they need, to make our streets safer, to help Americans succeed at home and at work, to break the cycle of poverty and dependence, to protect our environment for generations to come, and to maintain our world leadership for peace and freedom. Let us resolve to build that bridge ... I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we expand opportunity through education, where computers are as much a part of the classroom as blackboards, where highly trained teachers demand peak performance from our students, where every 8-year-old can point to a book and say, "I can read it myself." ... I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we create a strong and growing economy to preserve the legacy of opportunity for the next generation, by balancing our budget in a way that protects our values and ensuring that every family will be able to own and protect the value of their most important asset, their home ... I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent under class, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile. And they're not forgotten anymore ... I want to build a bridge to the 21st century where our children are not killing other children anymore, where children's lives are not shattered by violence at home or in the schoolyard, where a generation of young people are not left to raise themselves on the streets ... I want to build a bridge to the 21st century with a strong American community, beginning with strong families, an America where all children are cherished and protected from destructive forces, where parents can succeed at home and at work ... I want to build a bridge to the 21st century with a clean and safe environment ... I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that makes sure we are still the nation with the world's strongest defense, that our foreign policy still advances the values of our American community in the community of nations. Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world's indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace, and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.
The problem with the Bridge to the Future is that by the time it gets built, it's the Past.
Quote from: pderocco on September 16, 2025, 12:53:19 PMThe problem with the Bridge to the Future is that by the time it gets built, it's the Past.
But if you never build it, then that's not a problem.
Quote from: kphoger on September 16, 2025, 01:03:37 PMQuote from: pderocco on September 16, 2025, 12:53:19 PMThe problem with the Bridge to the Future is that by the time it gets built, it's the Past.
But if you never build it, then that's not a problem.
Depends, do you believe in multiverse theory? You might find yourself in the reality where the Bridge of the Future was built and suddenly yearn for it upon return to your home universe.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 16, 2025, 02:53:32 AM9/16/25
What bridges in America should not have been built?
The George Washington Bridge should've been a tunnel
Quote from: I-55 on September 16, 2025, 01:50:34 PMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on September 16, 2025, 02:53:32 AM9/16/25
What bridges in America should not have been built?
The George Washington Bridge should've been a tunnel
Better yet, a ferry. There are lots of Hudson River ferries.
Quote from: pderocco on September 16, 2025, 02:27:05 PMQuote from: I-55 on September 16, 2025, 01:50:34 PMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on September 16, 2025, 02:53:32 AM9/16/25
What bridges in America should not have been built?
The George Washington Bridge should've been a tunnel
Better yet, a ferry. There are lots of Hudson River ferries.
The George Washington Ferry has to go over the Delaware.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 16, 2025, 01:35:07 PMDepends, do you believe in multiverse theory? You might find yourself in the reality where the Bridge of the Future was built and suddenly yearn for it upon return to your home universe.
Are there Interstate highways between universes in this scenario?
Quote from: kphoger on September 16, 2025, 02:40:38 PMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on September 16, 2025, 01:35:07 PMDepends, do you believe in multiverse theory? You might find yourself in the reality where the Bridge of the Future was built and suddenly yearn for it upon return to your home universe.
Are there Interstate highways between universes in this scenario?
The Multiverse Interstate system we know dangerously little about.
2025-09-17: Why were Stop and Yield signs changed from yellow and black to red and white?
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 17, 2025, 01:06:51 AM2025-09-17: Why were Stop and Yield signs changed from yellow and black to red and white?
They ran out of yellow and black paint one day, and they decided they liked the new colors.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 17, 2025, 01:06:51 AM2025-09-17: Why were Stop and Yield signs changed from yellow and black to red and white?
They changed when Signs, LLC was bought out by the Coca-Cola Company in 1954, with all affiliated signs (Stop, Yield, Wrong Way, Do Not Enter, etc) switching to company colors.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 17, 2025, 01:06:51 AM2025-09-17: Why were Stop and Yield signs changed from yellow and black to red and white?
So people could cover them in slices of cheese and have said cheese slices be visible on the sign.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 17, 2025, 01:06:51 AM2025-09-17: Why were Stop and Yield signs changed from yellow and black to red and white?
Discrimination against minorities. They wanted the signs to reflect the skin color of the preferred racial group. Red was acceptable because of the prevalence of red necks in some parts of the country.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 17, 2025, 01:06:51 AM2025-09-17: Why were Stop and Yield signs changed from yellow and black to red and white?
Bees sitting on the old signs were too well-camoflaged, creating an unacceptable risk of motorists being stung while their vehicles were slowed or stopped.
Quote from: jlam on September 17, 2025, 02:52:45 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on September 17, 2025, 01:06:51 AM2025-09-17: Why were Stop and Yield signs changed from yellow and black to red and white?
They changed when Signs, LLC was bought out by the Coca-Cola Company in 1954, with all affiliated signs (Stop, Yield, Wrong Way, Do Not Enter, etc) switching to company colors.
Actually, sign colors were changed as part of a larger marketing and corporate sponsorship with Skittles
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 17, 2025, 01:06:51 AM2025-09-17: Why were Stop and Yield signs changed from yellow and black to red and white?
Bribery by the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (commonly known as 3M), plain and simple.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 17, 2025, 01:06:51 AM2025-09-17: Why were Stop and Yield signs changed from yellow and black to red and white?
In an era of increasing anti-Communist sentiment, the switch to red was an attempt to subtly cement the message "stop Communism" and "Communists, yield" in the American psyche.
However, they soon realized that a red Yield sign could also be interpreted as "yield to Communism". This is why, shortly thereafter, there was a widespread decrease in the usage of Yield signs and an increase in the usage of Stop signs—even to the point of removing Yield signs and replacing them with Stop signs.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 17, 2025, 01:06:51 AM2025-09-17: Why were Stop and Yield signs changed from yellow and black to red and white?
Santa's helpers kept getting confused at intersections they didn't understand, so elves were hired to reconfigure the MUTCD so that presents could be delivered on time every Christmas, which was known at the time as the Mint New Stops project.
QuoteWhy were Stop and Yield signs changed from yellow and black to red and white?
Mary Jane candy allowed their sponsorship of the MUTCD to lapse in 1971, but Starlight Mints took over semi-exclusive rights, and the rest is history.
Quote from: kphoger on September 17, 2025, 12:09:51 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on September 17, 2025, 01:06:51 AM2025-09-17: Why were Stop and Yield signs changed from yellow and black to red and white?
In an era of increasing anti-Communist sentiment, the switch to red was an attempt to subtly cement the message "stop Communism" and "Communists, yield" in the American psyche.
However, they soon realized that a red Yield sign could also be interpreted as "yield to Communism". This is why, shortly thereafter, there was a widespread decrease in the usage of Yield signs and an increase in the usage of Stop signs—even to the point of removing Yield signs and replacing them with Stop signs.
Fun fact I learned recently—yield signs didn't even appear in the MUTCD until 1961!
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 17, 2025, 01:06:51 AM2025-09-17: Why were Stop and Yield signs changed from yellow and black to red and white?
A fan of the (at the time) awful Pittsburgh Steelers thought the Steelers-colored signs were "stopping" the team from winning, and they petitioned to have the colors changed. Sure enough, the Steelers went on to win four Super Bowls in the 1970s. Petitions by Ravens, Browns, and Bengals fans to change the colors back have been ignored.
18 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MUTCD_W1-7.svg/320px-MUTCD_W1-7.svg.png) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/MUTCD_W12-1.svg/250px-MUTCD_W12-1.svg.png)
Quote from: kphoger on September 18, 2025, 11:38:45 AM18 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MUTCD_W1-7.svg/320px-MUTCD_W1-7.svg.png) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/MUTCD_W12-1.svg/250px-MUTCD_W12-1.svg.png)
One was in an accident.
Quote from: kphoger on September 18, 2025, 11:38:45 AM18 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
How gymnasts do the splits vs. how I do the splits.
Quote from: kphoger on September 18, 2025, 11:38:45 AM18 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MUTCD_W1-7.svg/320px-MUTCD_W1-7.svg.png) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/MUTCD_W12-1.svg/250px-MUTCD_W12-1.svg.png)
Widen car to take up whole road
vs.
Split car to take up whole road
WARNING: Look both ways.
WARNING: Look down at the side of the road.
Quote from: kphoger on September 18, 2025, 11:38:45 AM18 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MUTCD_W1-7.svg/320px-MUTCD_W1-7.svg.png) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/MUTCD_W12-1.svg/250px-MUTCD_W12-1.svg.png)
Quote from: kphoger on September 18, 2025, 11:38:45 AM18 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MUTCD_W1-7.svg/320px-MUTCD_W1-7.svg.png) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/MUTCD_W12-1.svg/250px-MUTCD_W12-1.svg.png)
Barbell and broken barbell ahead.
Quote from: kphoger on September 18, 2025, 11:38:45 AM18 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MUTCD_W1-7.svg/320px-MUTCD_W1-7.svg.png) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/MUTCD_W12-1.svg/250px-MUTCD_W12-1.svg.png)
Repellant force ahead vs excessive gravity ahead
Quote from: kphoger on September 18, 2025, 11:38:45 AM18 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MUTCD_W1-7.svg/320px-MUTCD_W1-7.svg.png) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/MUTCD_W12-1.svg/250px-MUTCD_W12-1.svg.png)
Left: flat terrain
Right: top of hill
Quote from: kphoger on September 18, 2025, 11:38:45 AM18 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MUTCD_W1-7.svg/320px-MUTCD_W1-7.svg.png) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/MUTCD_W12-1.svg/250px-MUTCD_W12-1.svg.png)
Left: Leia buns
Right: Pig tails
Quote from: kphoger on September 18, 2025, 11:38:45 AM18 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MUTCD_W1-7.svg/320px-MUTCD_W1-7.svg.png) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/MUTCD_W12-1.svg/250px-MUTCD_W12-1.svg.png)
Opposite vectors vs orthogonal vectors, duh!
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 17, 2025, 01:06:51 AM2025-09-17: Why were Stop and Yield signs changed from yellow and black to red and white?
Red cars were all the rage back then, and people always stopped to look at them, since they also knew to stop at a red light, so the AASHO decided to make all future Stop and Yield signs red and white from then on.
Quote from: kphoger on September 18, 2025, 11:38:45 AM18 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MUTCD_W1-7.svg/320px-MUTCD_W1-7.svg.png) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/MUTCD_W12-1.svg/250px-MUTCD_W12-1.svg.png)
LEFT: Proceed sideways
RIGHT: Back up to the left or right
left: Undetermined horizontal clearance.
right: squeeze under the arrows.
Quote from: kphoger on September 18, 2025, 11:38:45 AM18 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MUTCD_W1-7.svg/320px-MUTCD_W1-7.svg.png) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/MUTCD_W12-1.svg/250px-MUTCD_W12-1.svg.png)
Top: Watch for joggers wearing eye coverings who cannot see where they're going.
Bottom: Watch for joggers wearing headphones who cannot hear anything.
Quote from: kphoger on September 18, 2025, 11:38:45 AM18 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MUTCD_W1-7.svg/320px-MUTCD_W1-7.svg.png) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/MUTCD_W12-1.svg/250px-MUTCD_W12-1.svg.png)
Left: The generally understood political spectrum.
Right: The political spectrum in America.
Excellent job, guys! There were some lame ones, but the conversation gained traction eventually.
These two are my favorites:
Quote from: Henry on September 18, 2025, 09:45:53 PMRIGHT: Back up to the left or right
Quote from: Big John on September 18, 2025, 10:12:11 PMleft: Undetermined horizontal clearance.
Not road-related, but still deserves honorable mention:
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 18, 2025, 04:22:24 PMLeft: Leia buns
Right: Pig tails
And the "too good to be the worst" award goes to this one, even if it's also not road-related:
Quote from: CoreySamson on September 18, 2025, 11:02:13 PMLeft: The generally understood political spectrum.
Right: The political spectrum in America.
In the spirit of being a "nitpicker of unprecedented pedantry," I note that the original post only said the
question had to be road-related, not the answers:
Quote from: kphoger on July 17, 2025, 10:50:32 PMNo more than one conversation starter question per day.
Then we come up with the worst, least applicable, most inappropriate answer to the question.
If this were a music forum, then a conversation starter might be something like "Who in the 20th Century had the most beautiful voice?" Replies might include Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, and Yoko Ono—but certainly not Andrea Bocelli.
But of course, this is a roads forum, so the conversation starter should be road-related.
I know it's not quite tomorrow yet, but I'll get July 18 started off early with the first question. Remember, I'm only looking for bad answers!
Q: What stretch of Interstate could be removed from the system, and hardly anyone would miss it?
Quote from: kphoger on September 18, 2025, 11:38:45 AM18 SEP 2025
Explain the difference:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/MUTCD_W1-7.svg/320px-MUTCD_W1-7.svg.png) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/MUTCD_W12-1.svg/250px-MUTCD_W12-1.svg.png)
1. caution...X wing fighter crossing
2. caution...jarts
19 SEP 2025
Shown below is the sign commonly found at Interstate on-ramps in Kansas.
What two prohibitions should be added to these?
(https://i.imgur.com/C5IkX1w.png)
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 11:07:48 AMWhat two prohibitions should be added to these?
Trucks and RV's.
(Oh, wait, maybe that's a best answer.)
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 11:07:48 AM19 SEP 2025
Shown below is the sign commonly found at Interstate on-ramps in Kansas.
What two prohibitions should be added to these?
(https://i.imgur.com/C5IkX1w.png)
—Vehicles being driven by anyone other than 1995hoo whenever he is on the road
(although he has never been to Kansas and doesn't know when he might get there, but does want to visit because it is one of nine states he has remaining)—Vehicles bearing Kansas license plates, as their owners should be familiar with the alternate routes so as to leave the Interstates free for outsiders who don't know their way around.
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 11:07:48 AM19 SEP 2025
Shown below is the sign commonly found at Interstate on-ramps in Kansas.
What two prohibitions should be added to these?
(https://i.imgur.com/C5IkX1w.png)
They need to close the tricycle/unicycle loophole they've clumsily created, ASAP.
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 19, 2025, 12:22:09 PM—Vehicles bearing Kansas license plates, as their owners should be familiar with the alternate routes so as to leave the Interstates free for outsiders who don't know their way around.
I would simplify this: "Local Traffic".
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 02:27:42 PMQuote from: 1995hoo on September 19, 2025, 12:22:09 PM—Vehicles bearing Kansas license plates, as their owners should be familiar with the alternate routes so as to leave the Interstates free for outsiders who don't know their way around.
I would simplify this: "Local Traffic".
But is someone from, say, Overland Park really "local" in Kanorado?
Weinermobles
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 19, 2025, 12:22:09 PM—Vehicles bearing Kansas license plates, as their owners should be familiar with the alternate routes so as to leave the Interstates free for outsiders who don't know their way around.
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 02:27:42 PMI would simplify this: "Local Traffic".
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 19, 2025, 02:36:56 PMBut is someone from, say, Overland Park really "local" in Kanorado?
No, but they'd still be "outsiders who don't know their way around".
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 02:55:27 PMQuote from: 1995hoo on September 19, 2025, 12:22:09 PM—Vehicles bearing Kansas license plates, as their owners should be familiar with the alternate routes so as to leave the Interstates free for outsiders who don't know their way around.
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 02:27:42 PMI would simplify this: "Local Traffic".
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 19, 2025, 02:36:56 PMBut is someone from, say, Overland Park really "local" in Kanorado?
No, but they'd still be "outsiders who don't know their way around".
So you're underscoring that I gave a bad answer, then. Wasn't a bad answer supposed to be the goal you set for us?
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 11:07:48 AM19 SEP 2025
Shown below is the sign commonly found at Interstate on-ramps in Kansas.
What two prohibitions should be added to these?
(https://i.imgur.com/C5IkX1w.png)
Nudity.
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 19, 2025, 02:56:35 PMSo you're underscoring that I gave a bad answer, then. Wasn't a bad answer supposed to be the goal you set for us?
You get a blue star.
1. Toboggans
2. Dog sleds
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 11:07:48 AM19 SEP 2025
Shown below is the sign commonly found at Interstate on-ramps in Kansas.
What two prohibitions should be added to these?
(https://i.imgur.com/C5IkX1w.png)
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 11:07:48 AM19 SEP 2025
Shown below is the sign commonly found at Interstate on-ramps in Kansas.
What two prohibitions should be added to these?
(https://i.imgur.com/C5IkX1w.png)
1) Sober drivers
2) Law enforcement
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 11:07:48 AM19 SEP 2025
Shown below is the sign commonly found at Interstate on-ramps in Kansas.
What two prohibitions should be added to these?
(https://i.imgur.com/C5IkX1w.png)
Batmobies & any car driven by Vin Diesel
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 11:07:48 AM19 SEP 2025
Shown below is the sign commonly found at Interstate on-ramps in Kansas.
What two prohibitions should be added to these?
(https://i.imgur.com/C5IkX1w.png)
Tricycles and unicycles :banghead:
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 11:07:48 AM19 SEP 2025
Shown below is the sign commonly found at Interstate on-ramps in Kansas.
What two prohibitions should be added to these?
(https://i.imgur.com/C5IkX1w.png)
The Petercopter and the Peterang
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 11:07:48 AM19 SEP 2025
Shown below is the sign commonly found at Interstate on-ramps in Kansas.
What two prohibitions should be added to these?
(https://i.imgur.com/C5IkX1w.png)
Boats and jet skis
1. Passenger vehicles
2. Exits
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 11:07:48 AM19 SEP 2025
Shown below is the sign commonly found at Interstate on-ramps in Kansas.
What two prohibitions should be added to these?
(https://i.imgur.com/C5IkX1w.png)
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 11:07:48 AM19 SEP 2025
Shown below is the sign commonly found at Interstate on-ramps in Kansas.
What two prohibitions should be added to these?
(https://i.imgur.com/C5IkX1w.png)
All self-propelled vehicles
God Himself
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 09:04:12 AMExcellent job, guys! There were some lame ones, but the conversation gained traction eventually.
The thought has occurred that thanks to the "like" feature we could compile a list of what the canonically worst answer to each question was.
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 11:07:48 AMWhat two prohibitions should be added to these?
Prohibitions - Regulations
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 20, 2025, 04:46:16 AMQuote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 09:04:12 AMExcellent job, guys! There were some lame ones, but the conversation gained traction eventually.
The thought has occurred that thanks to the "like" feature we could compile a list of what the canonically worst answer to each question was.
Except that with such a small sample, we'll have a lot of ties.
Quote from: pderocco on September 20, 2025, 04:52:17 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on September 20, 2025, 04:46:16 AMQuote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 09:04:12 AMExcellent job, guys! There were some lame ones, but the conversation gained traction eventually.
The thought has occurred that thanks to the "like" feature we could compile a list of what the canonically worst answer to each question was.
Except that with such a small sample, we'll have a lot of ties.
That just means the answers are equally bad.
9/20/25: What does this sign mean?
(https://images.roadtrafficsigns.com/img/md/X/speed-hump-sign-x-w17-1.png)
Quote from: vdeane on September 20, 2025, 10:55:22 AM9/20/25: What does this sign mean?
(https://images.roadtrafficsigns.com/img/md/X/speed-hump-sign-x-w17-1.png)
Oh, that's simple. Railroads use humps to automate the disassembly and reassembly of trains. The collection trackage is referred to as "hump yards". Sometimes, we need wayside mounted braking systems called "retarders".
Quote from: vdeane on September 20, 2025, 10:55:22 AM9/20/25: What does this sign mean?
(https://images.roadtrafficsigns.com/img/md/X/speed-hump-sign-x-w17-1.png)
So...What's the policy about NSFW comments here?
Quote from: vdeane on September 20, 2025, 10:55:22 AM9/20/25: What does this sign mean?
(https://images.roadtrafficsigns.com/img/md/X/speed-hump-sign-x-w17-1.png)
Only 1 partner is satisfied.
A pile of meth ahead.
Quote from: vdeane on September 20, 2025, 10:55:22 AM9/20/25: What does this sign mean?
(https://images.roadtrafficsigns.com/img/md/X/speed-hump-sign-x-w17-1.png)
Wham, bam, thank you, ma'am.
Quote from: vdeane on September 20, 2025, 10:55:22 AM9/20/25: What does this sign mean?
(https://images.roadtrafficsigns.com/img/md/X/speed-hump-sign-x-w17-1.png)
Wednesdays
Quote from: vdeane on September 20, 2025, 10:55:22 AM9/20/25: What does this sign mean?
(https://images.roadtrafficsigns.com/img/md/X/speed-hump-sign-x-w17-1.png)
Quote from: Dirt Roads on September 20, 2025, 11:06:08 AMOh, that's simple. Railroads use humps to automate the disassembly and reassembly of trains. The collection trackage is referred to as "hump yards". Sometimes, we need wayside mounted braking systems called "retarders".
Theat's the background, yes. These warning signs are erected in advance of level crossings near hump yards that are not equipped with mechanized retarders. In such yards, workers manually move retarders into place during humping operations. Because of the greater possibility of human error involved, occasionally stray freight cars end up rolling through the level crossing unexpectedly. Hence the warning signs.
Years ago, the warning signs said "humping area", but some drivers got the wrong idea.
Quote from: vdeane on September 20, 2025, 10:55:22 AM9/20/25: What does this sign mean?
(https://images.roadtrafficsigns.com/img/md/X/speed-hump-sign-x-w17-1.png)
camel racing
Quote from: vdeane on September 20, 2025, 10:55:22 AM9/20/25: What does this sign mean?
(https://images.roadtrafficsigns.com/img/md/X/speed-hump-sign-x-w17-1.png)
A road themed piece of innuendo I tried on my wife once.
Quote from: vdeane on September 20, 2025, 10:55:22 AM9/20/25: What does this sign mean?
(https://images.roadtrafficsigns.com/img/md/X/speed-hump-sign-x-w17-1.png)
Posted at your typical lovers' lane, however the five-minute limit on parking is strictly enforced. Police are always on hand to move anyone along who overstays the limit, so anyone planning on stopping there had better, well, you know...
You can speed on this road, but only if your name is Hump.
Quote from: kphoger on September 19, 2025, 11:07:48 AM19 SEP 2025
Shown below is the sign commonly found at Interstate on-ramps in Kansas.
What two prohibitions should be added to these?
(https://i.imgur.com/C5IkX1w.png)
Pogo sticks.
Quote from: vdeane on September 20, 2025, 10:55:22 AM9/20/25: What does this sign mean?
(https://images.roadtrafficsigns.com/img/md/X/speed-hump-sign-x-w17-1.png)
Open Drawbridge
Quote from: vdeane on September 20, 2025, 10:55:22 AM9/20/25: What does this sign mean?
(https://images.roadtrafficsigns.com/img/md/X/speed-hump-sign-x-w17-1.png)
Kum & Go ahead
2025-09-21: What makes a roundabout "crash prone"?
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 21, 2025, 04:10:59 AM2025-09-21: What makes a roundabout "crash prone"?
Drivers get dizzy.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 21, 2025, 04:10:59 AM2025-09-21: What makes a roundabout "crash prone"?
Everyone gives up and lays face down on the ground.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 21, 2025, 04:10:59 AM2025-09-21: What makes a roundabout "crash prone"?
Once in the roundabout, centrifugal forces induce runaway acceleration until cars are flung out in all directions
Also, 'You Spend Me Round (Like a Record)' by Dead or Alive starts playing in driver's heads and they go temporarily insane
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 21, 2025, 04:10:59 AM2025-09-21: What makes a roundabout "crash prone"?
It's here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/sSAMQ8jw35zUWDU9A
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 21, 2025, 04:10:59 AM2025-09-21: What makes a roundabout "crash prone"?
Coriolis effect. (That's also why Aussie and Kiwi roundies go the opposite direction from the American ones.)
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 21, 2025, 04:10:59 AM2025-09-21: What makes a roundabout "crash prone"?
Conspiracy to make us give up our cars and use public transportation.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 21, 2025, 04:10:59 AM2025-09-21: What makes a roundabout "crash prone"?
Malware
Quote from: ModernDayWarrior on September 20, 2025, 06:13:51 PMPosted at your typical lovers' lane, however the five-minute limit on parking is strictly enforced. Police are always on hand to move anyone along who overstays the limit, so anyone planning on stopping there had better, well, you know...
Silly! If that were true, then the sign would be a white rectangle.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 21, 2025, 02:04:23 AMKum & Go ahead
This is the most clever answer by far. :clap:
Quote from: NE2 on September 21, 2025, 10:17:06 AMIt's here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/sSAMQ8jw35zUWDU9A
Quote from: kurumi on September 21, 2025, 01:36:45 PMCoriolis effect. (That's also why Aussie and Kiwi roundies go the opposite direction from the American ones.)
Wow, those answers are awesome! You guys are doing great at this!
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 21, 2025, 04:10:59 AM2025-09-21: What makes a roundabout "crash prone"?
A bear market in the middle.
Quote from: Big John on September 21, 2025, 06:52:20 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on September 21, 2025, 04:10:59 AM2025-09-21: What makes a roundabout "crash prone"?
A bear market in the middle.
Is it too late to Trade For Rick, or has the closing bell already rung?
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 21, 2025, 04:10:59 AM2025-09-21: What makes a roundabout "crash prone"?
There isn't a coffee shop or convenience store there where drivers can get more caffeine.
22 SEP 2025
A tourist couple from Germany wants to drive cross-country through the United States to see our nation's wonderful scenery. This is their first time in America. They want to fly into an east coast city, then drive to a west coast city.
Recommend a scenic route for them to take.
Quote from: kphoger on September 22, 2025, 09:24:56 AM22 SEP 2025
A tourist couple from Germany wants to drive cross-country through the United States to see our nation's wonderful scenery. This is their first time in America. They want to fly into an east coast city, then drive to a west coast city.
Recommend a scenic route for them to take.
Good thing I took this photo yesterday.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54804653989_760a0365cd_k.jpg)
Fly to PVD and take a route literally labeled scenic. Then cross the bridge into Jamestown RI, or Newport RI if you're a stickler on what is and isn't a city, and you're on the west coast because there's ocean (Narragansett Bay) to the west.
Quote from: kphoger on September 22, 2025, 09:24:56 AM22 SEP 2025
A tourist couple from Germany wants to drive cross-country through the United States to see our nation's wonderful scenery. This is their first time in America. They want to fly into an east coast city, then drive to a west coast city.
Recommend a scenic route for them to take.
The 1913 Lincoln Highway. Incredibly scenic and very easy to follow. There's even a map!
Quote from: kphoger on September 22, 2025, 09:24:56 AM22 SEP 2025
A tourist couple from Germany wants to drive cross-country through the United States to see our nation's wonderful scenery. This is their first time in America. They want to fly into an east coast city, then drive to a west coast city.
Recommend a scenic route for them to take.
Fly into Newark Airport. Pick up the rental car, then drive north on NJ-21 through the city of Newark to I-280. Take I-280 eastbound to the Jersey Turnpike. Get on the Turnpike southbound and drive past the very scenic industry of Elizabeth and Carteret, preferably with the windows and sunroof open to experience the fragrances.
Then take Exit 11 onto the northbound Garden State Parkway. Follow that road north to I-84. Then take I-84 west to Scranton and exit onto northbound I-81. Follow that across the Thousand Islands Bridge to Route 401. Take 401 east to 416, then 416 north to 417. Then 417 west; it becomes Route 17 after 417 ends and takes you to North Bay, where you pick up Route 11 up through Cochrane and across to Nipigon. From there, continue west on the Trans-Canada Highway to Vancouver, then drop south to Sea-Tac Airport and fly home.
Quote from: kphoger on September 22, 2025, 09:24:56 AM22 SEP 2025
A tourist couple from Germany wants to drive cross-country through the United States to see our nation's wonderful scenery. This is their first time in America. They want to fly into an east coast city, then drive to a west coast city.
Recommend a scenic route for them to take.
Fly into Tampa and drive to St. Petersburg on I-275, going to the west coast of Tampa Bay.
Quote from: kphoger on September 22, 2025, 09:24:56 AM22 SEP 2025
A tourist couple from Germany wants to drive cross-country through the United States to see our nation's wonderful scenery. This is their first time in America. They want to fly into an east coast city, then drive to a west coast city.
Recommend a scenic route for them to take.
1. Rent a green '96 Plymouth Voyager 4-Door van
2. Don't pack any water
3. Drive a Great Circle path from JFK to Death Valley NP
4. Take note of Furnace Creek, your West Coast City
5. Camp in Anvil Canyon
6. Try not to be a Death Valley German (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_Germans)
Quote from: jlam on September 22, 2025, 11:30:30 AM....
1. Rent a green '96 Plymouth Voyager 4-Door van
....
Forget that. Buy this car that's on Bring a Trailer for the
ultimate true American roadtrip experience. (http://bringatrailer.com/listing/wagon-queen-family-truckster/)
Quote from: kphoger on September 22, 2025, 09:24:56 AM22 SEP 2025
A tourist couple from Germany wants to drive cross-country through the United States to see our nation's wonderful scenery. This is their first time in America. They want to fly into an east coast city, then drive to a west coast city.
Recommend a scenic route for them to take.
Black Eagle Mine Road in Joshua Tree National Park. Just don't look too far into what happened in 2011 (it wasn't good).
Amtrak train from Boston (MA) to Providence (RI). Rent a car in Providence. Then it's just a matter of numerical sequence, making the route easy to remember:
US-6 West — Providence (RI) to East Hartford (CT), then take a very hard right turn onto US-5 North
US-5 North — East Hartford (CT) to White River Junction (VT), then take a right onto US-4 East
US-4 East — White River Junction (VT) to Boscawen (NH), then take a sharp left onto US-3 North
US-3 North — Boscawen (NH) to Lancaster (NH), then bear left at the roundabout onto US-2 West
US-2 West — Lancaster (NH) to Everett (WA)
Return the rental car at Paine field, then Swift BRT and Sound Transit train to Sea-Tac.
Quote from: kphoger on September 22, 2025, 09:24:56 AM22 SEP 2025
A tourist couple from Germany wants to drive cross-country through the United States to see our nation's wonderful scenery. This is their first time in America. They want to fly into an east coast city, then drive to a west coast city.
Recommend a scenic route for them to take.
Quote from: kphoger on September 22, 2025, 09:24:56 AM22 SEP 2025
A tourist couple from Germany wants to drive cross-country through the United States to see our nation's wonderful scenery. This is their first time in America. They want to fly into an east coast city, then drive to a west coast city.
Recommend a scenic route for them to take.
Fly into New York City and visit the historic Red Ball Garage to pick up your car. Then take I-78, I-76, I-70, I-44, I-40, I-15 and I-10 to Los Angeles to see the great scenery along the Interstate Highway System. Wrap up your visit with a hotel stay in Redondo Beach, right on the Pacific Ocean. The drive should take about 27 hours (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge), so it's perfect for a short vacation.
23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Roundabout vortex ahead
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Hurricanes
Optional: Spinny Spinny Spinny Windies
Merry Go Round Ahead. (Meets both criteria!)
Quote from: GaryV on September 23, 2025, 11:06:22 AMMerry Go Round Ahead. (Meets both criteria!)
Interesting. It's a black-on-white rectangle, so I assume it's regulatory.
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
Prepare for an argument with people who do not distinguish between "traffic circles," "rotaries," and "roundabouts."
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM*optional* — With four words or less fewer, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Big Ben/Parliament Ahead.
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Swingers ahead.
Big Ben - Parliament
This is an Optional Movement Lane Control Sign (MUTCD § 2B.22). It is almost always used with an R3-5b, R3-5e, or R3-5f supplemental plaque—but also, much more rarely, an R3-5g plaque. Typical example shown below:
(https://i.imgur.com/pT0GlAX.png)
The original text-based version was deprecated for obvious reasons:
(https://i.imgur.com/k5nVVL4.png)
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Coriolis effect change ahead.
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Circle the Wagons
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 12:27:45 PM....
The original text-based version was deprecated for obvious reasons:
(https://i.imgur.com/k5nVVL4.png)
....
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71pfdxTFwnL._UY1000_.jpg)
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Argument going nowhere ahead
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Rock Scissors Paper ahead
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Nothing ever happens
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Speen!
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Loop highway ahead!
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 23, 2025, 11:29:45 AMBig Ben/Parliament Ahead.
Quote from: Big John on September 23, 2025, 12:14:59 PMBig Ben - Parliament
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 12:28:34 PMcopycat
Quote from: Big John on September 23, 2025, 05:41:36 PMok, circular argument ahead.
Are there circular arguments that do actually go somewhere?
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 23, 2025, 02:59:04 PMArgument going nowhere ahead
RECYCLE
THIS
SIGN
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 23, 2025, 02:24:21 PM(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71pfdxTFwnL._UY1000_.jpg)
Mmmm, donuts. Is there anything they can't do???
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Big Infinite Loop
24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
Quote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 08:50:28 AM24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
They do, just in 0-size font.
Quote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 08:50:28 AM24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
Because you don't live in California.
Quote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 08:50:28 AM24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
Grammatical confusion between "US" and "WE." They couldn't decide whether the objective case or the subjective case was appropriate.
Quote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 08:50:28 AM24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
Could be confusion interpreting what that means.
Quote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 08:50:28 AM24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
The painter that usually does the contracting for the state DOTs injured his hands in a fight and retired to California, leaving the US department without a skilled painter to do it for them cheaper without machines.
Good answer:
They used to.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/US_6_%281961_cutout%29.svg/384px-US_6_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png?20060128115028)
Bad answer:
They got confused with North Dakota's original name -- Upper South Dakota.
It was a simple copy-and-paste from Nova Scotia's trunk highway shield.
Quote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 08:50:28 AM24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
Quote from: JayhawkCO on September 24, 2025, 10:55:33 AMGood answer:
They used to.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/US_6_%281961_cutout%29.svg/250px-US_6_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png)
I thought that was just a California thing. Was that a nationwide standard at some point?
Quote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 11:30:26 AMQuote from: JayhawkCO on September 24, 2025, 10:55:33 AMGood answer:
They used to.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/US_6_%281961_cutout%29.svg/250px-US_6_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png)
I thought that was just a California thing. Was that a nationwide standard at some point?
No, but nonetheless it did exist.
It was removed in order to allow for this:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/mg4oAHSWX6N7Ah2g9
Quote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 08:50:28 AM24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
Quote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 08:50:28 AM24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
Because we aren't a communist country, and us would signify socialism.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 24, 2025, 12:00:47 PMQuote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 08:50:28 AM24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
Because we aren't a communist country, and us would signify socialism.
That's why "interstate" is abbreviated with "I". This is an individualistic country, I will drive "I" routes as I please.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 24, 2025, 12:00:47 PMBecause we aren't a communist country, and us would signify socialism.
It's an especially bad answer because communism and socialism aren't the same thing.
Quote from: I-55 on September 24, 2025, 12:04:40 PMThat's why "interstate" is abbreviated with "I". This is an individualistic country, I will drive "I" routes as I please.
Nicely played.
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Road go spinny
Quote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 08:50:28 AM24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
Some guy really wanted them to say "FEDERAL", and they left it blank as a compromise.
Quote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 08:50:28 AM24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
Because U.S. contains too many letters for a road sign.
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
This is the sign you'll see when you drive west across a time zone boundary. The counterclockwise rotation indicated by the arrows serves as a reminder to set your clocks back by an hour. A clockwise version of this sign is used when driving east across a time zone boundary, although both versions of the sign have fallen out of use with the proliferation of clocks that automatically adjust to time zone changes.
Quote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 08:50:28 AM24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
They do, but the letters are in white like they are on interstate shields, so they blend in with the white background.
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
You are lost.
Quote from: IowaTraveler on September 24, 2025, 04:40:12 PMThis is the sign you'll see when you drive west across a time zone boundary. The counterclockwise rotation indicated by the arrows serves as a reminder to set your clocks back by an hour. A clockwise version of this sign is used when driving east across a time zone boundary, although both versions of the sign have fallen out of use with the proliferation of clocks that automatically adjust to time zone changes.
They do, but the letters are in white like they are on interstate shields, so they blend in with the white background.
By the way, I love both of these answers.
Quote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 08:50:28 AM24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
Because they wanted to head off having internet posters that might sing about little bushes and invent non-existent words. Too bad it didn't work.
Quote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 08:50:28 AM24 SEP 2025
Interstate Highway shields say "INTERSTATE" on them.
Why don't U.S. Route shields say "U.S." on them?
Because we don't want the foreigners to think that we're all police officers.
Quote from: JayhawkCO on September 24, 2025, 11:31:19 AMQuote from: kphoger on September 24, 2025, 11:30:26 AMQuote from: JayhawkCO on September 24, 2025, 10:55:33 AMGood answer:
They used to.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/US_6_%281961_cutout%29.svg/250px-US_6_%281961_cutout%29.svg.png)
I thought that was just a California thing. Was that a nationwide standard at some point?
No, but nonetheless it did exist.
Actually, yes, it was a nationwide standard at one point, but only for about five years or so, and only on Interstate highways. It appeared in the AASHTO publication for signage on Interstate highways, which served as a stopgap until the 1961 MUTCD was ready.
Colorado was one of the heaviest users of it outside of California. Have a US-24 (https://shields.aaroads.com/sign.php?road=CO19520241) (and there are many more if you look in the Colorado section of the Shield Gallery).
9/25/2025:
Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?
Quote from: Henry on September 25, 2025, 10:24:40 AM9/25/2025:
Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?
Systemic prime number bias.
Quote from: Henry on September 25, 2025, 10:24:40 AM9/25/2025:
Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?
Funding issues at WisDOT. Give them another decade and they'll have a corridor ready for both of them.
Quote from: Henry on September 25, 2025, 10:24:40 AM9/25/2025:
Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?
The number 47 has always been reserved for the yet-to-be-built railroad superhighway. The number was selected for being 10 times the width of the standard railway gauge (4' 8.5" or 4.7') and is hinted at in official documents such as the Indiana Design Manual where Chapter 47 covers "Highway-Railroad At-Grade Crossing".
Quote from: Henry on September 25, 2025, 10:24:40 AM9/25/2025:
Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?
Some people use such numbers to refer to presidents of the United States, so the use of "47" is prohibited under various laws that disallow naming certain things for living people.
Quote from: 1995hoo on September 25, 2025, 11:21:24 AMQuote from: Henry on September 25, 2025, 10:24:40 AM9/25/2025:
Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?
Some people use such numbers to refer to presidents of the United States, so the use of "47" is prohibited under various laws that disallow naming certain things for living people.
I-41 and I-43 are appropriately in the same state, just ahead of their time
Quote from: Henry on September 25, 2025, 10:24:40 AM9/25/2025:
Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?
They're legally prohibited from using that number. During the 1983.5 GAMER Revolution, Well before the VR craze, politicians in Camargo Oblast began to use the destructive power of video games such as the Tardis 525, Atari 47, and the Nintendgoat 2
6 to simulate the tire-swing runoffs, albeit in crude analog fashion. These consoles, with titles such as
Swingman,
Swing Wars: Episode 1 - A New Pope, and
Red Rover: Starring Alan Register, led to much strife in the GAMER revolution as it reached its climax. After the conflict of the GAMER Revolution, Douglas Denim (named after Sir Douglas Flood, among other things) authorized two new executive orders as Dominator of Camargo Oblast, the first banning the sale of Atari video game machines and outlawing the use of the number 47 and its multiples, owing to the horrific last words of Alan Tardis. This is one of the main reasons Atari video games and the number 47 are prohibited.
Quote from: Henry on September 25, 2025, 10:24:40 AM9/25/2025:
Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?
The number appears so often in Star Trek that everyone just already assumes it exists in every other context where a number could exist.
Quote from: Henry on September 25, 2025, 10:24:40 AM9/25/2025:
Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?
Because 7 8 9.
Quote from: Henry on September 25, 2025, 10:24:40 AM9/25/2025:
Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?
Because the signs would be stolen alongside US 45/I-45 signs to make knockoff merchandise.
Quote from: kphoger on September 23, 2025, 09:59:54 AM23 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
*optional* — With four words or less, what would be a good text-based version be?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/MUTCD_R6-5P.svg/250px-MUTCD_R6-5P.svg.png)
Sit 'n spin.
Quote from: Henry on September 25, 2025, 10:24:40 AM9/25/2025:
Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?
Texas and North Carolina are still fighting over it
Quote from: kphoger on September 25, 2025, 12:24:21 PMQuote from: Henry on September 25, 2025, 10:24:40 AM9/25/2025:
Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?
They're legally prohibited from using that number. During the 1983.5 GAMER Revolution, Well before the VR craze, politicians in Camargo Oblast began to use the destructive power of video games such as the Tardis 525, Atari 47, and the Nintendgoat 26 to simulate the tire-swing runoffs, albeit in crude analog fashion. These consoles, with titles such as Swingman, Swing Wars: Episode 1 - A New Pope, and Red Rover: Starring Alan Register, led to much strife in the GAMER revolution as it reached its climax. After the conflict of the GAMER Revolution, Douglas Denim (named after Sir Douglas Flood, among other things) authorized two new executive orders as Dominator of Camargo Oblast, the first banning the sale of Atari video game machines and outlawing the use of the number 47 and its multiples, owing to the horrific last words of Alan Tardis. This is one of the main reasons Atari video games and the number 47 are prohibited.
Eventually Alan Torrington signed it into law in all of Alanland IIRC.
Quote from: JayhawkCO on September 25, 2025, 10:45:19 AMQuote from: Henry on September 25, 2025, 10:24:40 AM9/25/2025:
Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?
Systemic prime number bias.
Thirty Two still holds a grudge after losing its U.S. Route status, and became a powerful lobbyist. Political number theory suggests its struggle came from being a fifth-generation exponent of the One Even Prime, who was mocked in school cafeterias with the dozens. Lo and behold, when the O.E.P. discovered after-school square dancing, the numeral eventually rose to meteoric heights, winning military honors in the battle between Mathematics and Arithmetic, which is why we raise our fingers in a V-formation for victory.
However, critics of Thirty Two say it has forgotten that struggle, accusing it of just being two teenagers. But it believes its scion may be well become a future leader under the tutelage of Sergeant Pepper.
Definitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PMDefinitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
Put up a stop light in the small town, then build a massive truck stop next to it. It'll bring in a ton of money for
kickbacks other important projects.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PM9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
Lemonade stand.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PMDefinitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
Stop shipping freight between the 2 cities. If the cities want to thrive, they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PMDefinitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
Expand the existing 2-lane highway into a 4-lane, limited access facility, condemning as much of the small town as is needed for the right of way.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PM9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
A trebuchet and a net on each side of town.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PMDefinitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
Build a toll road, Chicago Skyway style!
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PMDefinitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
Further road diet to add bike lanes.
Quote from: Henry on September 25, 2025, 10:24:40 AM9/25/2025:
Why has there never been an I-47 or US 47?
There is an I-47, what are you talking about? (https://innistradmc.fandom.com/wiki/Interstate_47)
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PMDefinitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
Subways. The local traffic in the small town will be diverted to mass transit, leaving the highway open for the trucks and other long-distance traffic.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PM9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
Spend the entire budget on cheese and run away to Mexico.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PMDefinitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
9/27/25: Conversely, Turbeville, SC is locally infamous as a speed trap, which towns would you use to
extract revenue from out-of-towners promote public safety? And how would you counter answers from yesterday's question?
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 27, 2025, 09:16:08 AM9/27/25: Conversely, Turbeville, SC is locally infamous as a speed trap, which towns would you use to extract revenue from out-of-towners promote public safety? And how would you counter answers from yesterday's question?
The town is almost named "Turboville," and they don't let you speed there? That's the most obvious case of entrapment the legal system has ever seen. I've never even been there, but I'm still seriously considering suing them.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PMDefinitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
raze the town.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PMDefinitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
A cut and cover project that places all of the affected properties below ground with the expanded through route on top.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PMDefinitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
Five-level stack interchange to replace the town's only traffic signal at the intersection of Main Street and First Avenue.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PMDefinitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
Purchase a fleet with helicopters with graphing hooks to transport traffic over the city congestion.
If we were truly coming up with the worst possible answers, this thread would already be locked
Quote from: kurumi on September 27, 2025, 12:54:13 PMIf we were truly coming up with the worst possible answers, this thread would already be locked
That reads like an endorsement for the helicopters with graphing hooks concept...
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 27, 2025, 11:10:31 AMQuote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PMDefinitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
Purchase a fleet with helicopters with graphing hooks to transport traffic over the city congestion.
150 MPH Freeways
September 28th, 2025
Why do 3 digit US highways sometimes not meet their parent route?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 28, 2025, 12:16:24 AMSeptember 28th, 2025
Why do 3 digit US highways sometimes not meet their parent route?
Pump and dump.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 28, 2025, 12:16:24 AMSeptember 28th, 2025
Why do 3 digit US highways sometimes not meet their parent route?
Shyster lawyers taking the emancipated minors thing too far.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 28, 2025, 12:16:24 AMSeptember 28th, 2025
Why do 3 digit US highways sometimes not meet their parent route?
They were disowned.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 28, 2025, 12:16:24 AMSeptember 28th, 2025
Why do 3 digit US highways sometimes not meet their parent route?
Dumped at the orphanage. The parent US Highway couldn't pay for an abortion.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 28, 2025, 12:16:24 AMSeptember 28th, 2025
Why do 3 digit US highways sometimes not meet their parent route?
They got lost at the grocery store and are waiting with a handful of balloons.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 28, 2025, 12:16:24 AMSeptember 28th, 2025
Why do 3 digit US highways sometimes not meet their parent route?
They're bastards.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 28, 2025, 12:16:24 AMSeptember 28th, 2025
Why do 3 digit US highways sometimes not meet their parent route?
The parent route got way too into YouTube and now believes so many crackpot theories that they're unpleasant to intersect with.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 28, 2025, 12:16:24 AMSeptember 28th, 2025
Why do 3 digit US highways sometimes not meet their parent route?
They were traumatized by Ben Stiller's experience.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 28, 2025, 12:16:24 AMSeptember 28th, 2025
Why do 3 digit US highways sometimes not meet their parent route?
The parent routes' Facebook feeds are full of AI slop and conspiracy theories.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 28, 2025, 12:16:24 AMSeptember 28th, 2025
Why do 3 digit US highways sometimes not meet their parent route?
Old person smell.
2025-09-29:
Why are U.S. guide signs green?
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 29, 2025, 03:57:38 AM2025-09-29:
Why are U.S. guide signs green?
If they were red, everyone would stop.
Kermit the frog ran MUTCD and gave that order.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 29, 2025, 03:57:38 AM2025-09-29:
Why are U.S. guide signs green?
It is a little-known fact of history that the Green Party started way back when, and as their first efforts at recognition they got the franchise for printing highway signs.
Quote from: Big John on September 29, 2025, 05:03:49 AMKermit the frog ran MUTCD and gave that order.
It ain't easy being green...
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 29, 2025, 03:57:38 AM2025-09-29:
Why are U.S. guide signs green?
To promote America's large amount of green spaces compared to Europe's more built up continent.
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PMDefinitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
Pass a local ordinance that prohibits businesses in town from operating between the hours of 7:00 AM and 7:00 PM.
but...
Quote from: Sapphuby on September 26, 2025, 10:33:52 PMDefinitely short, but let's get one out.
9/26/25: You're in charge of a major project to speed up travel between two cities along a major highway amid congestion issues. The highway narrows in a small town, creating a bottleneck for cross-city travel, snarling freight during peak hours. What is your best plan moving forward?
Quote from: wanderer2575 on September 27, 2025, 02:41:58 AMFurther road diet to add bike lanes.
You win! :-o
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on September 28, 2025, 12:16:24 AMSeptember 28th, 2025
Why do 3 digit US highways sometimes not meet their parent route?
To confuse and disorient a potential invading army.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 29, 2025, 03:57:38 AM2025-09-29:
Why are U.S. guide signs green?
To blend in with the scenery, less likely to distract drivers into looking at them.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 29, 2025, 03:57:38 AM2025-09-29:
Why are U.S. guide signs green?
They're the official sign sponsors of the Green Bay Packers. Go, Pack, go!
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 29, 2025, 03:57:38 AM2025-09-29:
Why are U.S. guide signs green?
It's the anti-metric lobby at work. They figure green signs will remind people of money and will cause people to realize how incredibly expensive it would be to convert US road signs to metric units, which they assume will result in the public actively opposing any such conversion.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 29, 2025, 03:57:38 AM2025-09-29:
Why are U.S. guide signs green?
Because they're used on roads that were designed according to Green Book guidelines.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 29, 2025, 03:57:38 AM2025-09-29:
Why are U.S. guide signs green?
They got sick after eating roadkill.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 29, 2025, 03:57:38 AM2025-09-29:
Why are U.S. guide signs green?
Here's a little-known fact about the FHWA: It was started one spring in Boston, when two small groups of highway enthusiasts were looking for inspiration. One group went to a Red Sox game at Fenway Park, and the other went to a Celtics game at Boston Garden. That inspiration was found when they noticed a certain large wall in left field and some green painted areas on the wood parquet floor and said: "Hey, that's our color!" The next day, they assembled into one larger group, drove to Washington and pitched the idea to the government officials. The officials liked their suggestion so much that the folks from Boston were hired for new positions in the USDOT, which they called the FHWA. And for the rest of their lives, they would get free Red Sox and Celtics tickets as thanks for their contributions to the American highways and byways.
Quote from: Henry on September 29, 2025, 09:41:27 PMHere's a little-known fact about the FHWA: It was started one spring in Boston, when two small groups of highway enthusiasts were looking for inspiration. One group went to a Red Sox game at Fenway Park, and the other went to a Celtics game at Boston Garden. That inspiration was found when they noticed a certain large wall in left field and some green painted areas on the wood parquet floor and said: "Hey, that's our color!" The next day, they assembled into one larger group, drove to Washington and pitched the idea to the government officials. The officials liked their suggestion so much that the folks from Boston were hired for new positions in the USDOT, which they called the FHWA. And for the rest of their lives, they would get free Red Sox and Celtics tickets as thanks for their contributions to the American highways and byways.
For the first three years, in fact, FHWA stood for
Fenway
High
way
Aficionados.
30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
The road is only open for eight hours each day in the peak traffic direction at the respective eight-hour windows.
It's reminding people of a specific baseball game, similar to the MA 3/MA 28 signs in Boston being a reference to Super Bowl LI.
Nice! I appreciate how you two have avoided the obvious answers and got more creative.
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
Drive backwards until you find US 8
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
Back in the day, NJ public schools were not as highly ranked as today (usually top 5 nationwide). NJDOT volunteered to pitch in by including simple arithmetic problems on its highway signs. Negative numbers were included.
West Virginia adapted the idea and extended it to fractions. Wisconsin and Missouri taught rural kids the alphabet.
Trucking companies also started to say "I'm doing my part!" The Yellow shipping line was a fleet of trucks that were, unfortunately, given orange logos.
In California, however, a fleet of 2,136 different trucks are teaching Japanese vocabulary:
(https://i.imgur.com/2CFRsyW.png)
Number of allowable trailers you can tow at once
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
The horizontal line is actually supposed to be the logic symbol for negation (
¬). However, because that symbol is not approved for use on highway signs, they used the closest thing to it, which is a dash.
On the signs shown below, the top-right shield means
US Route 1 and US Route 9, whereas the bottom-right shield means
US Route 1 but not US Route 9.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/2016-03-12_Collage_of_various_signage_styles_along_U.S._Route_1_and_U.S._Route_9_%28U.S._Route_1%269%29_in_northeastern_New_Jersey.jpg/330px-2016-03-12_Collage_of_various_signage_styles_along_U.S._Route_1_and_U.S._Route_9_%28U.S._Route_1%269%29_in_northeastern_New_Jersey.jpg)
This type of route shield is intended to be used in locations where people might be confused into thinking the highway is a concurrency of US-1 and US-9, to clarify that the highway is not actually US-9. However, unfortunately, it is commonly misapplied in the field, erroneously used in locations where US-1 and US-9 do overlap.
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
-8
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
Route 129
Quote from: PColumbus73 on September 30, 2025, 11:37:44 AMRoute 129
:bigass:
Seriously, though, that halfway sounds like it could actually be a sign maker error (in Oklahoma).
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
US 1 and 9 had a lovely dinner out.
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
It was put up by the New Jersey department of families to tell people what the acceptable range of number of kids parents should have.
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
Tonnelle Ahead
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on September 30, 2025, 12:17:21 PMUS 1 and 9 had a lovely dinner out.
Then why is one of them looking away?
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 12:41:21 PMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on September 30, 2025, 12:17:21 PMUS 1 and 9 had a lovely dinner out.
Then why is one of them looking away?
9 said something that made 1's heart flutter.
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
WARNING: Your DOT might be a cheap bastard.
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 12:05:35 PMQuote from: PColumbus73 on September 30, 2025, 11:37:44 AMRoute 129
:bigass:
Seriously, though, that halfway sounds like it could actually be a sign maker error (in Oklahoma).
Potoooooooo
Quote from: kurumi on September 30, 2025, 10:54:27 AMThe Yellow shipping line was a fleet of trucks that were, unfortunately, given orange logos [...]
(https://i.imgur.com/2CFRsyW.png)
My eye is twitching at this one as well. Clear! ...no, blue! ...but in red?
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 01:02:40 PMQuote from: Dirt Roads on September 30, 2025, 12:34:13 PMTonnelle Ahead
Please explain. I'm a little slow.
Captain and Tonnelle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_%26_Tennille) song ahead.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 29, 2025, 03:57:38 AM2025-09-29:
Why are U.S. guide signs green?
Following up on the term "follow the money" and greenbacks, they figured it could motivate motorists by having green
fronts as well.
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 01:02:40 PMQuote from: Dirt Roads on September 30, 2025, 12:34:13 PMTonnelle Ahead
Please explain. I'm a little slow.
A rather infamous traffic circle (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7396395,-74.0647588,3a,26.7y,276.38h,88.68t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1spVIHfBI9krfeiZM_c6GkmA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D1.315623854462146%26panoid%3DpVIHfBI9krfeiZM_c6GkmA%26yaw%3D276.3847951952395!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDkyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
That was a promotional ad from when the MTA introduced the 1-9 subway service and hoped it would attract more drivers to transit. The campaign didn't work and they eventually got rid of the 9.
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
The - is for "Insert Number Here."
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
-8
October 1st, 2025
Why was US 666 renamed to US 491?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 01, 2025, 12:19:38 AMOctober 1st, 2025
Why was US 666 renamed to US 491?
An obscure cult who believes 491 is the devil's number bought naming rights.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 01, 2025, 12:19:38 AMOctober 1st, 2025
Why was US 666 renamed to US 491?
It entered the Witness Protection Program after its parent was murdered.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 01, 2025, 12:19:38 AMOctober 1st, 2025
Why was US 666 renamed to US 491?
Shrinkflation.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 01, 2025, 12:19:38 AMOctober 1st, 2025
Why was US 666 renamed to US 491?
People's heart rates go higher when they see a larger number on the road signs, so a study was conducted and 491 was chosen at random.
The "three fourths error" caused 666 to become what would normally be 499 or 500, but anti-aliasing made it slightly inaccurate.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 01, 2025, 12:19:38 AMOctober 1st, 2025
Why was US 666 renamed to US 491?
Cats would show up whenever someone gave directions regarding 666.
Quote from: Sapphuby on October 01, 2025, 09:18:47 AMa study was conducted and 491 was chosen at random
Not much of a study, then, was it?
Quote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
The women I attract.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 01, 2025, 12:19:38 AMOctober 1st, 2025
Why was US 666 renamed to US 491?
That's a common misconception. It wasn't renumbered. It's still US-666. Those US-491 shields are technically errors. The actual US-491 runs immediately to the west of I-15,
between the southern terminus of US-91 and just north of Willard Bay State Park (https://maps.app.goo.gl/HC1VCXEbHC1amvmC8). Due to sign theft along US-666 and the low AADT on actual US-491, UDOT decided to sign the former with shields they removed from the latter (and unused extras that were stored in the sign shop).
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 01, 2025, 12:19:38 AMOctober 1st, 2025
Why was US 666 renamed to US 491?
The Democrats wanted to ensure the road would not be associated with the President's boyfriend:
(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b354c1bf94283e821ad8f4ba99741b98a9e96fd5/0_0_4000_2078/master/4000.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 01, 2025, 12:19:38 AMOctober 1st, 2025
Why was US 666 renamed to US 491?
When the state of Utah figured out that all the numbers from a roulette wheel add up to 666, they immediately filed for a renumbering in order to discourage gambling.
Quote from: JayhawkCO on October 01, 2025, 10:30:34 AMQuote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
The women I attract.
There's a significantly worse answer along these lines.
Quote from: thspfc on October 01, 2025, 07:05:09 PMQuote from: JayhawkCO on October 01, 2025, 10:30:34 AMQuote from: kphoger on September 30, 2025, 10:16:36 AM30 SEP 2025
What does this sign mean?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/US_1-9.svg/330px-US_1-9.svg.png)
The women I attract.
There's a significantly worse answer along these lines.
To specify, "rating" not age. :)
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 01, 2025, 12:19:38 AMOctober 1st, 2025
Why was US 666 renamed to US 491?
To hide the great Satanic Illuminati road numbering conspiracy. Fnord.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 01, 2025, 12:19:38 AMOctober 1st, 2025
Why was US 666 renamed to US 491?
Iron Maiden threatened to sue AASHTO for trademark infringement.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 01, 2025, 12:19:38 AMOctober 1st, 2025
Why was US 666 renamed to US 491?
They realized that Hell was actually in MI, and the road itself never went anywhere near that town, so they drew three lottery balls for the new number.
Quote from: kphoger on October 01, 2025, 10:20:05 AMQuote from: Henry on September 30, 2025, 10:25:50 PMThe - is for "Insert Number Here."
Does it flash?
It could, because I wasn't going to give a more obvious answer, like "go ahead and put in a zero to make it 109".
2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
Rhode Island. Because fuck aarhodes.com.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
Virginia, because I live here and I don't have to go "to" the state to be here.
Quote from: 1995hoo on October 02, 2025, 07:35:24 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
Virginia, because I live here and I don't have to go "to" the state to be here.
No, no, if you live there you've been to it, so it can't be your most-recently-never-visited state.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
The state of confusion.
No, wait, I may be confused. Can you restate the question?
Quote from: GaryV on October 02, 2025, 08:42:04 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
The state of confusion.
No, wait, I may be confused. Can you restate the question?
Think of all of the states you've never been to.
Which one is the most recent?
And why?
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 08:03:42 AMQuote from: 1995hoo on October 02, 2025, 07:35:24 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
Virginia, because I live here and I don't have to go "to" the state to be here.
No, no, if you live there you've been to it, so it can't be your most-recently-never-visited state.
So in other words, it's the "worst possible answer."
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
North Dakota, because I correctly exited US-81 NB on my way to work yesterday morning. If I hadn't, then that evening I'd have ended up in North Dakota for the first time.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 09:06:13 AMThink of all of the states you've never been to.
Which one is the most recent?
And why?
Hawaii. It is the most recent state. And I've never been to it.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
Indiana, because "been to" implies that I came from somewhere else
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 08:03:42 AMNo, no, if you live there you've been to it, so it can't be your most-recently-never-visited state.
Quote from: I-55 on October 02, 2025, 11:35:11 AMIndiana, because "been to" implies that I came from somewhere else
/slap I-55
Oh, wait, that one doesn't work on the forum. Let's see, here...
/me slaps I-55 around a bit with a large trout.
There we go!
Quote from: kphoger on October 02, 2025, 11:39:04 AMQuote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 08:03:42 AMNo, no, if you live there you've been to it, so it can't be your most-recently-never-visited state.
Quote from: I-55 on October 02, 2025, 11:35:11 AMIndiana, because "been to" implies that I came from somewhere else
/slap I-55
Oh, wait, that one doesn't work on the forum. Let's see, here...
/me slaps I-55 around a bit with a large trout.
There we go!
Well I've certainly been to the state of ignorance so...
Wisconsin. Culver's is just their embassy.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
The Plasma state. Personally I'd rather be in the original 3 states of matter, even though the Sun is my friend.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
Alaska because I have enough ape-men issues down my way (especially the Mogollon Monster). The last thing I need to not be able to see them camouflaged in snowy environments.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
West Versconsifornxico.
Matrimony. Never married.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
Gaseous.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
This is supposed to be about the worst possible answer, not the worst possible question.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
The state where I fall asleep and wake up at the middle of the night, I get a big smile on my face and think about Alanland every time I wake up at this stage. This marks my return to the forum, and I thought about it. I thought about the middle of the night. That's why I am back.
Quote from: pderocco on October 02, 2025, 06:24:41 PMThis is supposed to be about the worst possible answer, not the worst possible question.
That's why I tried to come up with the best possible answer. I figure the best possible answer to the worst possible question must somehow end up being the worst possible answer.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
Why is in Arizona, but I've been there. Therefore, no solution.
Quote from: xonhulu on October 02, 2025, 10:00:50 PMWhy is in Arizona, but I've been there. Therefore, no solution.
ooooooohhh!!!! You figured out the trick question! :love:
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 02, 2025, 02:06:31 AM2025-10-02:
Which state have you most recently never been to, and why?
The Empire State of mind
10/3/25:
How did the I-395/I-290 switchover in MA exist?
Quote from: Henry on October 03, 2025, 10:00:21 AM10/3/25:
How did the I-395/I-290 switchover in MA exist?
As part of an Anti-Gambling campaign in the city of Worcester, they lobbied for a change to confuse potential gamblers in their city from going to the casinos in Connecticut.
Quote from: Henry on October 03, 2025, 10:00:21 AM10/3/25:
How did the I-395/I-290 switchover in MA exist?
Massachusetts was using Commonwealth Units and Connecticut was not.
Quote from: Henry on October 03, 2025, 10:00:21 AM10/3/25:
How did the I-395/I-290 switchover in MA exist?
It was a political thing. Driving eastbound towards Boston, the road to the right connects to states further south that are more conservative than most of New England, so they wanted to give it an x95 number to clarify to disgruntled conservatives which route to use to emigrate to states where they would be happier. The road to the left, however, connects to states that are more politically liberal, so they used an x90 to connote that the road is related to the Massachusetts Turnpike and leads to places where left-wing voters would be happy.
Lost a bet to Rube Goldberg.
Quote from: Henry on October 03, 2025, 10:00:21 AM10/3/25:
How did the I-395/I-290 switchover in MA exist?
Interstate Schizophrenia.
Quote from: Henry on October 03, 2025, 10:00:21 AM10/3/25:
How did the I-395/I-290 switchover in MA exist?
Like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HyKFQC7oQMaVzAmm6
Quote from: Henry on October 03, 2025, 10:00:21 AM10/3/25:
How did the I-395/I-290 switchover in MA exist?
They donated the 105 to California.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 03, 2025, 11:08:40 AMQuote from: Henry on October 03, 2025, 10:00:21 AM10/3/25:
How did the I-395/I-290 switchover in MA exist?
As part of an Anti-Gambling campaign in the city of Worcester, they lobbied for a change to confuse potential gamblers in their city from going to the casinos in Connecticut.
The original designation -- state route 52 -- was the number of cards in a blackjack deck and that's
gambling. The whole region has a sordid history TBH.
Quote from: Henry on October 03, 2025, 10:00:21 AM10/3/25:
How did the I-395/I-290 switchover in MA exist?
The engineer assigned to review the project was very shy, and when he had to point out the switchover to his boss, he Worcest out.
10/4/2025:
How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on October 04, 2025, 10:45:37 AM10/4/2025:
How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?
Tree Fiddy
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on October 04, 2025, 10:45:37 AM10/4/2025:
How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?
No matter the answer, it's always gonna be overbudget.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on October 04, 2025, 10:45:37 AM10/4/2025:
How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?
If it's one bridge over everything, then it's equivalent to a double-decking project. However, you will not need additional right of way. Those factors cancel out, and you are now estimating a duplicate of an already built project (the interstate highway system), which cost about $500 billion in 2016 dollars (source (https://infrastructurereportcard.org/happy-60th-birthday-interstate-highway-system/)).
Given the price of a banh mi has tripled since then, the new estimate is $1.5T plus 18% tip
My 2 cents worth.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on October 04, 2025, 10:45:37 AM10/4/2025:
How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?
From the contractor's perspective? At least a dollar.
(I want my) TWO DOLLARS!
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on October 04, 2025, 10:45:37 AM10/4/2025:
How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?
Eleventy quadzillion dollars
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on October 04, 2025, 10:45:37 AM10/4/2025:
How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?
Less than you might think. Just extend all the interstate highways beyond their termini via
unsigned multiplexes with existing interstates so they are all eventually concurrent with I-44 on the Will Rogers Turnpike, then the already-existing Will Rogers Archway will do the trick.
Total cost: a few hours' pay for whatever AASHTO secretary needs to revise all the interstate logs.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on October 04, 2025, 10:45:37 AM10/4/2025:
How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?
Some people would only build tunnels, so zero dollars for bridges.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on October 04, 2025, 10:45:37 AM10/4/2025:
How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?
How About building a bridge over all the North American Interstate Highway System, in all 15 North American countries, the countries will be, the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Terrtiories, Nunavut, Quebec, Greenland, Iceland, Alanland, Hawaii, Bermuda, Belize, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
Quote from: TheCatalyst31 on October 04, 2025, 10:23:08 PMQuote from: PNWRoadgeek on October 04, 2025, 10:45:37 AM10/4/2025:
How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?
How About building a bridge over all the North American Interstate Highway System, in all 15 North American countries, the countries will be, the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Terrtiories, Nunavut, Quebec, Greenland, Iceland, Alanland, Hawaii, Bermuda, Belize, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
Please don't call the Eureka PD on me.
10/5/2025:
Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 05, 2025, 12:01:09 AM10/5/2025:
Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?
They don't have any states.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 05, 2025, 12:01:09 AM10/5/2025:
Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?
The Owl's Interstate military forces have not yet made a move to establish a beachhead.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 05, 2025, 12:01:09 AM10/5/2025:
Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?
Since "interstate" technically means between states, that would suggest Canada build freeways whose entire purpose is to connect one US state to another. You'd think Canada would be polite enough to do this. For instance, they should spend the billions required to connect every border state to Alaska via a direct, interstate-quality freeway. Additionally, they need to criss-cross Ontario and Quebec with freeways to directly connect both parts of Michigan with Ohio, New York and the New England states.
Instead, they selfishly invest in roadways to mainly improve the lives of their
own citizens. How unneighborly!
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 05, 2025, 12:01:09 AM10/5/2025:
Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?
Redacted: Some political comment about Canada and prime minister and governor and president.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 05, 2025, 12:01:09 AM10/5/2025:
Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?
Interstate highways pertain to states, and are therefore
static objects. Objects which are static
(https://i.imgur.com/PdjkiML.png)
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 05, 2025, 12:01:09 AM10/5/2025:
Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?
They kept having to stop construction to deal with angry moose.
They need to turn a new (maple) leaf.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 05, 2025, 12:01:09 AM10/5/2025:
Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?
The word "system" implies multiple roads, and that means it is impossible for Canada to have an Interstate system. After all, we all know there's only one road in Canada:
2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 06, 2025, 12:36:05 AM2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?
Because of problems with the California educational system, especially in rural areas of the state, state officials didn't think that people could read any number higher than 55.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 06, 2025, 12:36:05 AM2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?
Because they have to make sure the NoCal residents don't feel alienated.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 06, 2025, 12:36:05 AM2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?
They are in sympathy with Illinois, which is not flat and thus cannot have highways over 55 mph.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 06, 2025, 12:36:05 AM2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?
Urbanist conspiracy to make rural folk use the High Speed Rail.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 06, 2025, 12:36:05 AM2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?
They don't want Sammy Hagar's song to be rendered irrelevant.
Quote from: PNWRoadgeek on October 04, 2025, 10:45:37 AM10/4/2025:
How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?
A lot less than you might think, because most current Interstates already have bridges over them. You'd only need to build the remaining ones. Probably the most expensive one would be putting the UP freight yard in Cheyenne
over I-180 instead of
under it.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 05, 2025, 12:01:09 AM10/5/2025:
Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?
The US Interstate system took shape to improve cross-country military travel in defense of the nation. But who would want to invade Canada (other than John Candy?)
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 06, 2025, 12:36:05 AM2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?
Because that's the speed limit. And, by some weird quirk of California state law, it's one of the only states where the posted speed limit has to match the actual speed limit.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 06, 2025, 12:36:05 AM2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?
They ran out of other numerals at the sign factory.
Quote from: kphoger on October 06, 2025, 10:55:40 AMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on October 05, 2025, 12:01:09 AM10/5/2025:
Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?
The US Interstate system took shape to improve cross-country military travel in defense of the nation. But who would want to invade Canada (other than John Candy?)
Ummm ...
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 06, 2025, 12:36:05 AM2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?
Caltrans really likes saying "double nickel".
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 05, 2025, 12:01:09 AM10/5/2025:
Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?
Most provinces (mainly ON and QC) do, but they want to cover it up with heavily altered shields.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 06, 2025, 12:36:05 AM2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?
The powers that be in Sacramento were the ones that mandated a colored 55 on car speedometers during the NMSL era, and their highways are relics of that.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 06, 2025, 12:36:05 AM2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?
The director of CalTrans is a big Foghat fan.
Quote from: xonhulu on October 06, 2025, 11:08:19 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on October 06, 2025, 12:36:05 AM2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?
The director of CalTrans is a big Foghat fan.
That guy just wants rural drivers to take a slow ride 'cause he's a fool for the city.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 07, 2025, 01:18:27 AMQuote from: xonhulu on October 06, 2025, 11:08:19 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on October 06, 2025, 12:36:05 AM2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?
The director of CalTrans is a big Foghat fan.
That guy just wants rural drivers to take a slow ride 'cause he's a fool for the city.
https://youtu.be/L7mS1YtAtRI?si=Spcg5Ca98NZnAF9J
10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
The construction of that section of I-35 was funded by a generous donation from the estate of Mr. Lea.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
Iowa doesn't exist (Des Moines is missing as a state capitol).
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
Because Victoria and Albert was already taken as a museum name in England.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
Because the town didn't want to be called 'Limon'
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
They thought they might be able to work it into a Burma-Shave verse.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
They were afraid of protests if they used Robertee Lee.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
— Because Duluth is
north of the Twin Cities. Duh.
— Because there's no intersecting US Route or Interstate in Faribault.
— To fit in with the clockwise alphabet scheme: I-35 SB to
Albert Lea, US-169 SB to
Blue Earth, I-94 WB to St
Cloud, I-35 NB to
Duluth, I-94 EB to
Eau Claire.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
The I-35 plan predates Albert Lea, which was a clever placeholder name (it's an anagram for "alterable"). That name first appears in the document "General location of national system of interstate highways, including all additional routes at urban areas designated in September, 1955", which we know as the Yellow Book (https://archive.org/details/generallocationo00unitrich).
The plan was a little too clever, as entrepreneurs started developing the valuable land near the junction of two interstates, and the name for the new city was already on planning maps. Now it's too late to change anything.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
Because the head of AASHTO at the time was a big fan of English guitarists.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
Albert Lea watched hours of Tony Robbins videos, achieved self-empowerment, and took control. You can, too!
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
It was originally supposed to point to
Albert Hall.
There was some controversy when
Being for the Benefit of Mister Kite! was released, when Harvey Kitel sued for defamation. During the trial, it turns out that he hadn't put on the spectacles properly, so the case was dismissed. But during the media circus that ensued, Minnesota's Transteleporation Cabernet elites quietly picked some random town instead.
Quote from: Henry on October 06, 2025, 09:59:41 PMMost provinces (mainly ON and QC) do, but they want to cover it up with heavily altered shields.
Most? :eyebrow: ON and QC is 2/10, adding in NB and NS makes it 4/10. Alberta has a freeway system, but there's nothing to differentiate it (not special shields like QC/NB/NS or special numbering like ON); IMO BC's freeways don't really count as a "system" unless/until BC 17 is fully upgraded.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
Because calling the store and asking "do you have Albert Lea in a can?" would go over the head of a modern prank recipient.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
They misspelled Alan Land.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
Because he's gonna be the next Grand Alan.
Because Albert is the prince wanting to get out of the can.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 07, 2025, 02:19:17 AMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
The construction of that section of I-35 was funded by a generous donation from the estate of Mr. Lea.
In fact, his great-grandson was the deputy mayor of Minneapolis at the time, and wanted to honor his memory by naming a random town after him. After seeing that absolutely nothing existed at the future interchange of I-35 and I-90, he sent a small group of surveyors and builders to construct the new town, and that's how it ended up where it is today.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
Because if it said Manly/Fertile people would get the wrong idea.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 07, 2025, 02:09:40 AM10/7/2025
Why is Albert Lea the Control City on I-35 south of the Twin Cities?
Because the proposal to route I-35 through Austin got caught in the spam filter.
10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AM10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
Because chaos is the normal state of the world and anything else requires more work.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AM10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
To protect their sovereignty. If they used the same system, it would just be one step towards a one-world government run by the Illuminati.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AM10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
They don't. There's only one worldwide system. It's just a very robust and complex system, and any given country only utilizes a few parts of it.
It's like asking why Loving County (TX), which has State Routes but no US Routes, uses a different system for organizing and classifying its highways than Lynn County, which has US Routes but no State Routes. No, they use the same system, just different parts of that system. Similarly, South Korea and Mexico use the same system, just different parts of that system.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AM10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
Under the dominion of FritzOwl they won't. I think this is needed.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AM10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
Because Poiponen13 thinks everyone should do things the way they are done in his country and everyone else wanted to show him that he's wrong.
(Wait, is that the best possible answer?)
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AM10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
Because Illinois is flat.
Quote from: 1995hoo on October 08, 2025, 09:58:23 AM(Wait, is that the best possible answer?)
No, it's the worst, for bringing up Poiponen13. :-P
Quote from: JayhawkCO on October 08, 2025, 10:16:08 AMBecause Illinois is flat.
It's a bad answer because only
50% of Illinois is flat (https://wisevoter.com/state-rankings/flattest-states/#illinois).
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AM10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
So that all roads can be classified as Federal Highways (sung to the tune of
Little Green Shrub).
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AM10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
To confuse invading armies.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AM10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
Because their system is better than the others.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AMWhy do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
Because they refused my offer to incorporate their system into my global numbering system.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AM10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
So they can argue over whose system is the best in the world.
Quote from: Henry on October 08, 2025, 10:38:36 PMQuote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AM10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
So they can argue over whose system is the best in the world.
10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world? :bigass:
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AMQuote from: Henry on October 08, 2025, 10:38:36 PMQuote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AM10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
So they can argue over whose system is the best in the world.
10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world? :bigass:
The District of Columbia.
Quote from: Scott5114 on October 09, 2025, 05:02:08 AMQuote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AMQuote from: Henry on October 08, 2025, 10:38:36 PMQuote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AM10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
So they can argue over whose system is the best in the world.
10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world? :bigass:
The District of Columbia.
No, Antarctica.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AMWhich country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world? :bigass:
It's a three-way tie among Nunavut, Greenland, and Svalbard.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AMWhich country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world? :bigass:
Ohio is the perfect example: It's so easy to find a place for a new highway number when there's no pattern
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AM10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?
Every route in Clark County, Nevada's county route system has the perfect number.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AM10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world? :bigass:
The Perkins Union
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AM10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?
Tie between South Korea and Arizona, with forward-looking geographic-based numbering systems that anticipate a future reunification with the region to the north. (Although recently AZ has started using 2-digit numbers below 60, so maybe the winds are shifting with respect to 北砂国.)
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AM10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?
https://gov.gs
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AM10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world? :bigass:
Kinda hard to place it between Maryland and Kentucky with their absolute generosity to make anything a state highway.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AM10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world? :bigass:
Alanland
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AMQuote from: Henry on October 08, 2025, 10:38:36 PMQuote from: freebrickproductions on October 08, 2025, 01:05:31 AM10-8-25:
Why do different countries use different systems for organizing and classifying their highways, if any such systems exist at all?
So they can argue over whose system is the best in the world.
10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world? :bigass:
Vatican City
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AM10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?
Molossia.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AM10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world? :bigass:
Vatican City
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AM10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world? :bigass:
Ken, I'll take fractional road signs for $1000. What is West Virginia?
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AM10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?
Arkansas, because the designation of AR-600 and AR-980 was a stroke of sheer genius.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AM10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?
Arkansas and Indiana. The more disparate sections of roadway with the same number, the better.
Quote from: vdeane on October 09, 2025, 01:03:14 PMQuote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AM10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world? :bigass:
Alanland
It's a little-known fact that Alanland, despite not consisting of states, does in fact have "state highways." Perhaps the best-known example is Alanland Route Kentucky (AL-KY), which connects the towns of
(page torn off) and a strange town name. These two towns despise each other and are fierce rivals; sporting events between their respective high schools are known as the "Kentucky Derby," for obvious reasons.
In fact, the most recent Kentucky Derby was played just yesterday. In what was an exciting Alanian Rules Football match, the
(page torn off) Goats defeated the a strange town name Goats, 10π to 4√5. Pictured below are some of the fine citizens of
(page torn off) celebrating their victory:
(https://i.ibb.co/gLP3bLDC/alky.jpg)
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AM10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world? :bigass:
Malaysia. As far as I can tell, new highways are proposed by writing a low-quality, unsourced Wikipedia article about an existing road. If an editor from outside Malaysia (on either Wikipedia or the AARoads wiki) adds sources to the article, it can be assigned a number.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 09, 2025, 04:38:30 AM10-9-25:
Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world? :bigass:
For all its faults, it would be CA, because of the no-duplicates rule that makes its numbering system the neatest in the nation.
Quote from: kphoger on October 09, 2025, 01:20:10 PMQuote from: kphoger on October 09, 2025, 10:40:39 AMThe Perkins Union
Quote from: vdeane on October 09, 2025, 01:03:14 PMAlanland
Get your own idea.
https://quindaropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Itselfness
Honestly Alanland doesn't really feel like the Perkins Union, despite Scott declaring that very early in his first lore dump. I associate Alanland with goats and absurdity and the Perkins Union with extreme punishments (remember when The Premier got upset and everyone else's posts about roadside executions and the like and claimed the PU was a state with the same civil rights and whatnot, only to post about a nightclub owner being burned at the stake because of blocked emergency exits leading to people dying in a fire shortly thereafter?).
Quote from: ModernDayWarrior on October 09, 2025, 06:26:12 PMAlanian Rules Football match
No, not Alanian Rules Football. Kumquat Discus (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=35879.msg2987742#msg2987742).
Quote from: vdeane on October 09, 2025, 09:53:10 PMQuote from: kphoger on October 09, 2025, 01:20:10 PMQuote from: kphoger on October 09, 2025, 10:40:39 AMThe Perkins Union
Quote from: vdeane on October 09, 2025, 01:03:14 PMAlanland
Get your own idea.
https://quindaropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Itselfness
Honestly Alanland doesn't really feel like the Perkins Union, despite Scott declaring that very early in his first lore dump. I associate Alanland with goats and absurdity and the Perkins Union with extreme punishments (remember when The Premier got upset and everyone else's posts about roadside executions and the like and claimed the PU was a state with the same civil rights and whatnot, only to post about a nightclub owner being burned at the stake because of blocked emergency exits leading to people dying in a fire shortly thereafter?).
Some of Jake's early Alanland posts effortlessly combined the brutal punishments with the absurdity ("the punishment for a first offense is death. the punishment for a second offense is also death. the penalty for a third offense is you have to wear a silly hat for a week."). But for whatever reason that didn't really catch on like the goats did.
Alanland guide signs have a red background as a pretty direct homage to the PU.
10/10/25
Why are toll roads more common in the Midwest and Northeast than in the rest of the country?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 10, 2025, 12:43:46 AM10/10/25
Why are toll roads more common in the Midwest and Northeast than in the rest of the country?
Because money.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 10, 2025, 12:43:46 AM10/10/25
Why are toll roads more common in the Midwest and Northeast than in the rest of the country?
Midwestern dairy production makes traveling through the area harder on people with lactose intolerance, so the tolls are needed to fund the frequent service plazas necessary to serve travelers so affected.
The Northeast has tolls because westerly winds bring that region the Midwestern dairy air.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 10, 2025, 12:43:46 AM10/10/25
Why are toll roads more common in the Midwest and Northeast than in the rest of the country?
Under the theory of "You get what you pay for" the authorities rationalized that no one would fully appreciate the roads unless they were charged for driving on them.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 10, 2025, 12:43:46 AM10/10/25
Why are toll roads more common in the Midwest and Northeast than in the rest of the country?
Bridge Trolls are more common in cooler climates. Trolls of course love tolls, hence why you see so many toll roads and bridges.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 10, 2025, 12:43:46 AM10/10/25
Why are toll roads more common in the Midwest and Northeast than in the rest of the country?
This goes back to colonial times, when stagecoach drivers had to pay at least a pound (because they were British settlers, and at the time, the dollar had not been invented yet) to pass through the tollgates. At each gate, a man kept watch for the stagecoaches and asked their drivers for payment before he could open the gate. Once the stagecoach passed through, the gate was closed again. Once America became a nation and expanded westward, the tolls also expanded westward, and payment was now in U.S. currency, which consumers liked because it was much simpler than the old British way. Somehow the tolls skipped most of the South and made it to FL instead, which is the result of former Northern residents migrating there and setting up their own toll system, but that's another story.
^^^^
I think someone is misunderstanding the point of this thread....
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 10, 2025, 12:43:46 AM10/10/25
Why are toll roads more common in the Midwest and Northeast than in the rest of the country?
In the Northeast, it was a form of advertising because the Toll House cookie was invented in Massachusetts, so the states cooperated to advertise that product to bring more revenue into the region.
In the Midwest, it was a form of indirect advertising. They figured if people ate Toll House cookies, they'd want milk afterwards, so they wanted to encourage people to eat the cookies.
Quote from: ModernDayWarrior on October 09, 2025, 06:26:12 PMPictured below are some of the fine citizens of (page torn off) celebrating their victory:
(https://i.ibb.co/gLP3bLDC/alky.jpg)
Judging by the relatively unburnt state of the bonfire wood and the alignment of the goats, the picture appears to have been taken quite early in the traditional goat piss drink-off—or, as it is colloquially known, 'wee jar overtime' or 'eleventh period'. Just off-camera to the right would be an effigy of the most recent Warbler of the Introspective Parliament, dressed in a leather teddy and a Kentucky derby, and just off-camera to the left would be a yellow five-legged stool.
By the way, the route sign is not current Alanland spec—unless it was blessed by a priest, that is, in which case it isn't.
Quote from: vdeane on October 09, 2025, 09:53:10 PMHonestly Alanland doesn't really feel like the Perkins Union, despite Scott declaring that very early in his first lore dump. I associate Alanland with goats and absurdity and the Perkins Union with extreme punishments (remember when The Premier got upset and everyone else's posts about roadside executions and the like and claimed the PU was a state with the same civil rights and whatnot, only to post about a nightclub owner being burned at the stake because of blocked emergency exits leading to people dying in a fire shortly thereafter?).
That sounds like a you problem. Goats and extreme punishments are not mutually exclusive. Some of the most extreme punishments were done to goats, and the most famous of all was done
by a goat. As the saying goes, "Don't forget the onions!"
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 10, 2025, 12:43:46 AM10/10/25
Why are toll roads more common in the Midwest and Northeast than in the rest of the country?
There are more people there. Therefore, more people drive on the roads. Therefore, they deteriorate faster. Therefore, they have to be repaired more frequently. Therefore, more money is required for their maintenance. Therefore, an additional funding source is more necessary.
Also, there is no fuel tax in Northeastern or Midwestern states.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 10, 2025, 12:43:46 AM10/10/25
Why are toll roads more common in the Midwest and Northeast than in the rest of the country?
No road is an island, entire unto itself. Each is a piece of the highway network, a part of the main
Therefore, ask not for whom the road tolls: it tolls for thee.
- John Donne (Paying Tolls), 1623
Quote from: xonhulu on October 10, 2025, 11:56:22 AMNo road is an island, entire unto itself.
Each is a piece of the highway network,
a part of the main
Therefore, ask not for whom the road tolls:
it tolls for thee,
but half for three.
Fixed. You forgot the last line, which applies to HOV lanes.
Quote from: kphoger on October 10, 2025, 12:29:14 PMQuote from: xonhulu on October 10, 2025, 11:56:22 AMNo road is an island, entire unto itself.
Each is a piece of the highway network,
a part of the main
Therefore, ask not for whom the road tolls:
it tolls for thee,
but half for three.
Fixed. You forgot the last line, which applies to HOV lanes.
I'll have to take your word for it. I'm from Oregon, we don't do any of those toll road or HOT lanes shenanigans (yet).
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 10, 2025, 12:43:46 AM10/10/25
Why are toll roads more common in the Midwest and Northeast than in the rest of the country?
It helps keep out the cheapskates from other parts of the country. Nobody wants to hear them complain about how expensive the tourist stuff in New York and Chicago is.
10/12/25
Why hasn't I-69 been completed yet?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 12, 2025, 12:10:51 PM10/12/25
Why hasn't I-69 been completed yet?
It was put in an awkward position.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 12, 2025, 12:10:51 PM10/12/25
Why hasn't I-69 been completed yet?
Haven't you heard? 69ing is out and 6-7ing is in.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 12, 2025, 12:10:51 PM10/12/25
Why hasn't I-69 been completed yet?
The whole project was cancer from the beginning.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 12, 2025, 12:10:51 PM10/12/25
Why hasn't I-69 been completed yet?
Every time a major section of it is complete, Texas adds a new branch to it.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 12, 2025, 12:10:51 PM10/12/25
Why hasn't I-69 been completed yet?
At some point, politicians realized that annoying roadgeeks was more fun than actually finishing projects.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 12, 2025, 12:10:51 PM10/12/25
Why hasn't I-69 been completed yet?
Because it's not called I-67 :bigass:
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 12, 2025, 12:10:51 PM10/12/25
Why hasn't I-69 been completed yet?
Nice routes finish last.
10-13-25
How do you define the Midwest?
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2025, 02:44:24 AM10-13-25
How do you define the Midwest?
By Jello consumption in the 1950's
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2025, 02:44:24 AM10-13-25
How do you define the Midwest?
I use a scientific calculus which is largely based how many white people in a geographic region say "geez-o-Pete" regularly.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2025, 02:44:24 AM10-13-25
How do you define the Midwest?
Everywhere left of Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina to the Ural Mountain range. This was established in 1784 by surveyors Johnny V. Fuquay and Giuseppe Varina working in tandem to mark arbitrary borders for future cellphone coverage.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2025, 02:44:24 AM10-13-25
How do you define the Midwest?
Anything within a 300-mile radius of Chicago
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2025, 02:44:24 AM10-13-25
How do you define the Midwest?
Anywhere you pronounce "wash" with an R
Quote from: kurumi on October 13, 2025, 11:29:56 AMQuote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2025, 02:44:24 AM10-13-25
How do you define the Midwest?
Anywhere you pronounce "wash" with an R
That IS a bad answer. I always thought that was a Baltimore area thing as my grandpa always said it like that.
It's the area directly to the west of the middle east (mid east). Yes, Greece is Midwest.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 13, 2025, 12:51:23 PMIt's the area directly to the west of the middle east (mid east). Yes, Greece is Midwest.
So... putting the boundary near the Genesee River (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.1906979,-77.6827869,3a,15y,61.77h,88.13t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sc_eI4bmzf48muAxGDKFEdg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D1.87002471843401%26panoid%3Dc_eI4bmzf48muAxGDKFEdg%26yaw%3D61.76833528303007!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTAwOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)? :sombrero:
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on October 13, 2025, 11:52:45 AMQuote from: kurumi on October 13, 2025, 11:29:56 AMQuote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2025, 02:44:24 AM10-13-25
How do you define the Midwest?
Anywhere you pronounce "wash" with an R
That IS a bad answer. I always thought that was a Baltimore area thing as my grandpa always said it like that.
Yours too? Though he had some relatives that emigrated to Chicago a generation or two before.
Quote from: formulanone on October 13, 2025, 04:24:06 PMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on October 13, 2025, 11:52:45 AMQuote from: kurumi on October 13, 2025, 11:29:56 AMQuote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2025, 02:44:24 AM10-13-25
How do you define the Midwest?
Anywhere you pronounce "wash" with an R
That IS a bad answer. I always thought that was a Baltimore area thing as my grandpa always said it like that.
Yours too? Though he had some relatives that emigrated to Chicago a generation or two before.
Yes, my grandpa made it far up the ladder at the Chevrolet division during the heyday of GM. That eventually got him relocated to Michigan. My Dad was born in Baltimore but was mostly raised in Detroit.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2025, 02:44:24 AM10-13-25
How do you define the Midwest?
It depends on just how snowy your winter is and just how willing you are to drive on snow packed gravel.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2025, 02:44:24 AM10-13-25
How do you define the Midwest?
"es" is the mid part of "west"
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 12, 2025, 12:10:51 PM10/12/25
Why hasn't I-69 been completed yet?
Same reason I-74 has not been completed yet: Because extending out-of-place 2dis hundreds of miles is a really bad idea.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2025, 02:44:24 AM10-13-25
How do you define the Midwest?
That big region between the Sierra Nevadas and Appalachia.
10/14/25:
Why did they decommission US 66?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 14, 2025, 08:53:08 AM10/14/25:
Why did they decommission US 66?
So the Cars movie could be made.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 14, 2025, 08:53:08 AM10/14/25:
Why did they decommission US 66?
The potential liability from drivers injured from all the kicks they were getting.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 14, 2025, 08:53:08 AM10/14/25:
Why did they decommission US 66?
Why does the shadowy organization know as "they" do anything? Best I can tell it is just evil doing for evil's sake.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 14, 2025, 08:53:08 AM10/14/25:
Why did they decommission US 66?
"They" was one person, Opabinio Burgess, Adjunct Secretary of the Standing Committee on Highways, Route Numbering Group, of the American Association of State Highway Officials (FHWA).
Fueled by hate, enabled by the media, and helped by a governing body that relied on handshake norms rather than enforcing the law, Burgess carried out his jihad against all US route numbers divisible by 11. Fortunately he was only partially successful in his plans.
US 11: untouched. This one was too popular, and he was planning to get around to this one last.
US 22: he didn't know about this one
US 33: on his enemies list, but his golfing buddy bribed him to look the other way
US 44: twice a year, for more than a decade, he tried to change this to US 8
US 55: gone.
US 66: also gone.
US 77: truncated at Sioux City
US 88: renumbered to US 160. Ironically, he circulated the idea (which became true) that this number was a nazi dogwhistle
US 99: gone.
US 110: gone.
US 121: he passed away in 1980, before this was an idea
US 143: deleted.
US 154: deleted.
US 165: passed through his home town and was spared
US 176: truncated; it used to go coast to coast. Truncation was unfortunate because this highway is needed.
US 187: not sure
US 209: he insisted that Kerhonkson, NY, where 44 and 209 meet, was a gateway to Hell
US 220: the I-99 thing (and keeping US 220) was Bud Shuster's middle finger to Opabinio Burgess
US 232: he completely erased this from all historical documents and maps. Most people will insist it never existed. A great success that he intended to adapt to other routes.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 14, 2025, 08:53:08 AM10/14/25:
Why did they decommission US 66?
They were concerned that the same people—obviously people of exceptionally high intelligence—who find it unbearably confusing that there are multiple Interstate Highways numbered "695" would be confounded by the duplication of the number "66" between the US route and the Interstate Highway that both bore that number. They didn't want those people making wrong turns, so they decided it was best to delete US-66.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 14, 2025, 08:53:08 AM10/14/25:
Why did they decommission US 66?
It is not a prime number, and they like prime numbers very greatly.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2025, 02:44:24 AM10-13-25
How do you define the Midwest?
(https://i.imgur.com/JwoOXJY.png)
Quote from: kurumi on October 14, 2025, 12:34:22 PM"They" was one person, Opabinio Burgess, Adjunct Secretary of the Standing Committee on Highways, Route Numbering Group, of the American Association of State Highway Officials (FHWA).
Fueled by hate, enabled by the media, and helped by a governing body that relied on handshake norms rather than enforcing the law, Burgess carried out his jihad against all US route numbers divisible by 11.
I met him once. He stole candy from my dog and kicked my baby. One bad hombre.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 14, 2025, 08:53:08 AM10/14/25:
Why did they decommission US 66?
The states felt that it was an unfair advantage for Bobby Troup in his feud with Chet Baker.
Also, I am old.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 14, 2025, 08:53:08 AM10/14/25:
Why did they decommission US 66?
It was outdated by '70s and '80s standards, and AASHTO declared I-40 and other similar highways the next great thing. Another factor in this decommissioning is that the aerodynamic Corvettes ('63 and later) were such poor fits for the old road when compared to the first generation, so the Interstates were tailored to their better performance and handling abilities.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 13, 2025, 02:44:24 AM10-13-25
How do you define the Midwest?
Any states west of the Appalachians that I think are mid.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 14, 2025, 08:53:08 AM10/14/25:
Why did they decommission US 66?
To send a message to children of the 1950s that their youthful days were over and would never come back. It's also why they canceled M*A*S*H.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 14, 2025, 08:53:08 AM10/14/25:
Why did they decommission US 66?
Professional highway engineers have no sense of humor and did not appreciate a popular song about their work.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 14, 2025, 08:53:08 AM10/14/25:
Why did they decommission US 66?
The Office of Redundancy Department was on holiday that week.
15 October 2025:
Why did they designate I-99?
Quote from: MikeTheActuary on October 15, 2025, 05:55:49 AM15 October 2025:
Why did they designate I-99?
Those who were bemoaning the decommissioning of US-66 got it designated as a sort of tribute. They changed US to I and inverted the 66 to 99.
I-99 was established as a conspiracy by the Pennslyvania government and Penn State to take media attention off of the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
Quote from: MikeTheActuary on October 15, 2025, 05:55:49 AM15 October 2025:
Why did they designate I-99?
They had made arrangements to film a biography of a well-known hockey player and were going to use Pennsylvania to stand in for some of the places he played in his junior years before turning pro. They named the highway after the movie as a promotional stunt, which then backfired when the movie was cancelled because the player's NHL team didn't give him time off to participate in filming.
Quote from: MikeTheActuary on October 15, 2025, 05:55:49 AM15 October 2025:
Why did they designate I-99?
There were plans for an I-99 along the Atlantic coast that was to run from Savannah to New York as far back as 1968, when the system was expanded to include 1,500 more miles through the Federal Highway Aid Act. As originally proposed, I-99 was to be the ultimate bypass for Fayetteville, Richmond, Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, while providing Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk and Atlantic City with a north-south corridor. But by the late '80s, the project was cancelled, and the I-99 number was suddenly up for grabs. The late Bud Shuster realized that the coastal Interstate was never going to be built, so he took it for himself, and the rest is history.
Quote from: MikeTheActuary on October 15, 2025, 05:55:49 AM15 October 2025:
Why did they designate I-99?
Bud Shuster also had a dog/baby-related vendetta against Opabinio Burgess.
Schuster had a hard on for Agent 99 in Get Smart.
10/16/25:
Why didn't New York renumber any of its I-x78 routes after their parent 2di was cancelled?
Quote from: Henry on October 16, 2025, 09:51:30 AM10/16/25:
Why didn't New York renumber any of its I-x78 routes after their parent 2di was cancelled?
Because under New York's anti discrimination law passed by voters, it would be considered insulting to their inert identities to rename them due to their parents failures.
Quote from: Henry on October 16, 2025, 09:51:30 AM10/16/25:
Why didn't New York renumber any of its I-x78 routes after their parent 2di was cancelled?
New York remembers and renames, but does not renumber.
Quote from: Henry on October 16, 2025, 09:51:30 AM10/16/25:
Why didn't New York renumber any of its I-x78 routes after their parent 2di was cancelled?
Didn't want to insult their parents' fast revolving 78 RPM records.
Quote from: Henry on October 16, 2025, 09:51:30 AM10/16/25:
Why didn't New York renumber any of its I-x78 routes after their parent 2di was cancelled?
Because ya
never forget family. You want I should disrespect my parents like that? Fugeddaboutit!
Quote from: Henry on October 16, 2025, 09:51:30 AM10/16/25:
Why didn't New York renumber any of its I-x78 routes after their parent 2di was cancelled?
They didn't want to give New Jersey the satisfaction
Quote from: Henry on October 16, 2025, 09:51:30 AM10/16/25:
Why didn't New York renumber any of its I-x78 routes after their parent 2di was cancelled?
These days, it's perfectly all right for kids to move away from their parent.
Quote from: xonhulu on October 16, 2025, 02:36:11 PMQuote from: Henry on October 16, 2025, 09:51:30 AM10/16/25:
Why didn't New York renumber any of its I-x78 routes after their parent 2di was cancelled?
These days, it's perfectly all right for kids to move away from their parent.
The only question is how did 78's kids afford NYC rent.
Quote from: Henry on October 16, 2025, 09:51:30 AM10/16/25:
Why didn't New York renumber any of its I-x78 routes after their parent 2di was cancelled?
They wanted to provide something for members of this forum to use as a basis for fictional maps.
Quote from: Henry on October 16, 2025, 09:51:30 AM10/16/25:
Why didn't New York renumber any of its I-x78 routes after their parent 2di was cancelled?
They noticed how many people still call it Sixth Avenue.
Quote from: Henry on October 16, 2025, 09:51:30 AM10/16/25:
Why didn't New York renumber any of its I-x78 routes after their parent 2di was cancelled?
Because NYSDOT doesn't believe in cancel culture. So what if I-78 was "problematic" and "runs on a random street with stoplights"?
Quote from: Henry on October 16, 2025, 09:51:30 AM10/16/25:
Why didn't New York renumber any of its I-x78 routes after their parent 2di was cancelled?
Losing the palindrome freeway would be a severe blow to their interstate repertoire.
10-17-25:
Which states should reduce their max posted speed limit, what should they reduce it to, and why?
Alternatively:
Which states should increase their max posted speed limit, what should they increase it to, and why?
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 17, 2025, 02:39:34 AM10-18-25:
Which states should reduce their max posted speed limit, what should they reduce it to, and why?
Alternatively:
Which states should increase their max posted speed limit, what should they increase it to, and why?
Return all states to the old federal limit of 55 except for Rhode Island, which takes Texas's 85mph speed limit. This will increase tourism revenue for the city of Quahog.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 17, 2025, 02:39:34 AM10-18-25:
Which states should reduce their max posted speed limit, what should they reduce it to, and why?
Alternatively:
Which states should increase their max posted speed limit, what should they increase it to, and why?
All states, Warp Factor 9. Make it so.
Massachusetts should reduce their maximum speed limit from 65 to 64, since 64 is a power of 2 and the state needs to advertise how important they are in technology since they seem to have been losing it to other states the last few decades.
Illinois should increase speed limits to 85 MPH because it's flat and can handle those speeds.
I don't care what their damn speed limits are, as long as they don't enforce them.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 17, 2025, 02:39:34 AM10-18-25:
Which states should reduce their max posted speed limit, what should they reduce it to, and why?
Alternatively:
Which states should increase their max posted speed limit, what should they increase it to, and why?
Are you in Australia? It's only the 17th here. :)
Queensland should probably reduce their speeds to 40 kph because of all the cane toads.
Tasmania should probably raise their speeds to 150 kph to avoid the Tasmanian Devil.
Quote from: JayhawkCO on October 17, 2025, 11:36:33 AMQuote from: freebrickproductions on October 17, 2025, 02:39:34 AM10-18-25:
Which states should reduce their max posted speed limit, what should they reduce it to, and why?
Alternatively:
Which states should increase their max posted speed limit, what should they increase it to, and why?
Are you in Australia? It's only the 17th here. :)
Fixed, it was rather late and I was rather tired, lol.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 17, 2025, 02:39:34 AM10-17-25:
Which states should reduce their max posted speed limit, what should they reduce it to, and why?
Alternatively:
Which states should increase their max posted speed limit, what should they increase it to, and why?
Virginia should increase the limit to 85 mph so that I-366 can be designated.
New York should lower the limit to 50 mph to be uniform with NYC.
Quote from: vdeane on October 17, 2025, 12:39:07 PMNew York should lower the limit to 50 mph to be uniform with NYC.
You don't want NYC to remain an outlier?
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 17, 2025, 02:39:34 AMWhich states should reduce their max posted speed limit, what should they reduce it to, and why?
States that are posted at 75mph should reduce their speed limits to 120km/h.
The reason why is left as an exercise for the reader.
Quote from: freebrickproductions on October 17, 2025, 02:39:34 AM10-17-25:
Which states should reduce their max posted speed limit, what should they reduce it to, and why?
Alternatively:
Which states should increase their max posted speed limit, what should they increase it to, and why?
I'm all for a modern-day split NMSL of 75 for states east of the Mississippi, and 85 for those west of it. It only seems fair.
Quote from: GaryV on October 17, 2025, 12:55:19 PMQuote from: vdeane on October 17, 2025, 12:39:07 PMNew York should lower the limit to 50 mph to be uniform with NYC.
You don't want NYC to remain an outlier?
Hmmm... good point. On second thought, New York should lower its speed limit to 45 except in cities with a population greater than one million. If it's good enough for the BQE, it's good enough for the Thruway!
10/18/25
Why did they decide to extend I-74 wildly out of grid to South Carolina?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on October 18, 2025, 06:44:24 AM10/18/25
Why did they decide to extend I-74 wildly out of grid to South Carolina?
Who is they?
10/19/25
Why did AASHTO decide to extend I-74 wildly out of grid to South Carolina?
Quote from: NE2 on October 18, 2025, 09:40:59 PMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on October 18, 2025, 06:44:24 AM10/18/25
Why did they decide to extend I-74 wildly out of grid to South Carolina?
Who is they?
Me. :bigass:
2025-10-19:
What does the USDOT Rapid Response Team do?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on Today at 12:34:05 AM10/19/25
Why did AASHTO decide to extend I-74 wildly out of grid to South Carolina?
To build a long bridge between the 2 sections.
Quote from: Scott5114 on Today at 05:59:30 AM2025-10-19:
What does the USDOT Rapid Response Team do?
Slow you down if you're going too fast.
Quote from: Scott5114 on Today at 05:59:30 AM2025-10-19:
What does the USDOT Rapid Response Team do?
They rapidly deploy the helicopters with graphing hooks.
Quote from: Scott5114 on Today at 05:59:30 AM2025-10-19:
What does the USDOT Rapid Response Team do?
Established during the Pony Express days, the USDOT in conjunction with USDASH establishes coded communication during emergencies.
Quote from: Scott5114 on Today at 05:59:30 AM2025-10-19:
What does the USDOT Rapid Response Team do?
At the moment, nothing. Government shutdown.
Quote from: Scott5114 on Today at 05:59:30 AM2025-10-19:
What does the USDOT Rapid Response Team do?
To provide Zero Vision. (oops! that should be Vision Zero).
Quote from: Scott5114 on Today at 05:59:30 AM2025-10-19:
What does the USDOT Rapid Response Team do?
Build interstates in Argentina and Israel instead of in America
On another note, is this the first day of the year with 2 questions for one day?
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on Today at 03:56:39 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on Today at 05:59:30 AM2025-10-19:
What does the USDOT Rapid Response Team do?
Build interstates in Argentina and Israel instead of in America
On another note, is this the first day of the year with 2 questions for one day?
No, because you just duplicated the question you posted yesterday so therefore Scott's is the real one.
Quote from: vdeane on Today at 04:00:25 PMQuote from: Roadgeekteen on Today at 03:56:39 PMQuote from: Scott5114 on Today at 05:59:30 AM2025-10-19:
What does the USDOT Rapid Response Team do?
Build interstates in Argentina and Israel instead of in America
On another note, is this the first day of the year with 2 questions for one day?
No, because you just duplicated the question you posted yesterday so therefore Scott's is the real one.
QuoteWhy did they decide to extend I-74 wildly out of grid to South Carolina?
QuoteWhy did AASHTO decide to extend I-74 wildly out of grid to South Carolina?
Two different questions :bigass: