XY Challenge

[74/171FAN]

PA 231 and PA 331 are concurrent northwest of Washington, PA.

PA 231 NORTH AND PA 331 WEST AT BRUSH RUN RD by Mark Moore, on Flickr

[formulanone]

Alabama 30's end at US 431 (they're error shields):



US 431 at SR 134 in Headland:

[LilianaUwU]

OR 38 and OR 138 in Elkton:

Pretty obvious those shields were an afterthought.

[paulthemapguy]

March 28: Post a junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and another route with a 3 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will pit thirties with other thirties.

IL-33 and IL-130 in Newton


IL-130-033DS by Paul Across America, on Flickr

IL-131 and IL-132 in Waukegan


IL-131-132N by Paul Across America, on Flickr

IL-136 ends at US130 just east of Clinton, Iowa


IL-136ETO by Paul Across America, on Flickr

The next three days:
March 29: Post a junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 4 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will give us thirties and forties together.
March 30: Post a junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 5 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will give us thirties and fifties together.
March 31: Post a junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 6 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will give us thirties and sixties together.

[wanderer2575]

US-31 at M-137 (RIP) in Interlochen (US-31 is being rebuilt and this intersection converted to a roundabout this year):


Eastern end of the M-32/M-33 concurrency east of Atlanta:


US-131 northbound at M-37 (and I-96) in Grand Rapids:

[74/171FAN]

March 29: Post a junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 4 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will give us thirties and forties together.

PA 34 and PA 849 are concurrent in Newport.

PA 34 SOUTH AT PA 849 WEST by Mark Moore, on Flickr

[Jim]

Filling in for yesterday's 3x/3x, as I was unable to get to this.

Pre-roundabout New York 30 and New York 30A in Mayfield.  April 25, 2009.



New York 31 and New York 631 in Baldwinsville.  September 10, 2022.



New York 37 and New York 131 near Massena.  April 14, 2023.

[formulanone]

Alabama 35 at SR 40 near Scottsboro:



Alabama 144's western end at US 231 near Pell City:

[xonhulu]

US 30 and OR 47 in Clatskanie:

[Jim]

On to today's 3x/4x challenge.

New York 30 and New York 145 in Middleburgh.  February 21, 2009.



New York 335 and New York 443 in Elsmere.  May 13, 2013.



New York 37 and New York 342 in Watertown.  August 4, 2020.

[74/171FAN]

March 30: Post a junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 5 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will give us thirties and fifties together.

PA 34 and PA 850 have a concurrency in Shermans Dale.

PA 850 WEST AT PA 34 SOUTH by Mark Moore, on Flickr

[Jim]

Close to home for New York 30 and New York 159 near Braman Corners.  June 25, 2009.



New York 38A and New York 359 in Niles.  May 12, 2022.



New York 136 and New York 150 in Wynantskill.  November 24, 2002.

[wanderer2575]

M-55's western terminus at US-31 in Manistee:


M-156's northern terminus at M-34 south of Clayton:


M-36 westbound at M-52 north of Stockbridge:

[formulanone]

Alabama makes this range easy with US 31, 231, and 431 spanning significant distance throughout the state.

Back home for US 231 at US 431 and SR 53 in Huntsville:



Alabama 133 begins at SR 157 in Muscle Shoals:



Alabama 52 ends at US 331 in Andalusia:

[paulthemapguy]

March 30: Post a junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 5 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will give us thirties and fifties together.

Oops. I forgot to post these three photos yesterday.

IL-134 at IL-59 near Fox Lake


IL-134WT by Paul Across America, on Flickr

IL-38 at IL-251 in Rochelle


IL-038-251NW by Paul Across America, on Flickr

IL-37 at IL-154 near Whittington


IL-154 by Paul Across America, on Flickr

The next 3 days:
March 31: Post the junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 6 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will show thirties and sixties together.
April 1: Post the junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 7 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will show thirties and seventies together.
April 2: Post the junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 8 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will show thirties and eighties together.

[xonhulu]

This will be another underwhelming Oregon post. We have exactly one thirties-fifties junction, that of OR 233 and OR 154 west of Dayton.  Here's what that looks like:





In the 1st photo, southbound OR 233 comes in from the right, makes a right turns, and continues straight ahead, while OR 154 begins to the left.  The 2nd photo is from the perspective of southbound OR 233, so it continues to the right in the photo while OR 154 begins straight ahead.

Note that neither view has any route signage whatsoever, and southbound 233 doesn't even have any destination signage at the intersection (or leading up to it), so the unwary motorist wanting to stay on 233 won't know to turn right here.

If they do fail to turn and continue straight ahead, in a few hundred yards they will see this 154 route marker:



and hopefully will figure out they're now on the wrong highway and missed the turn for 233.

There isn't any route signage coming from the other 2 directions, either, but at least those have green destination signage.  In the past, there were 233 shields with directional arrows, but those were removed at some point, leaving the borderline-criminally undersigned intersection we have today.

[xonhulu]

March 31: Post the junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 6 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will show thirties and sixties together.

OR 230 and OR 62 in Union Creek:

[74/171FAN]

The north end of PA 268 is at PA 38/PA 208 in Emlenton.

PA 268 NORTH NEAR PA 38 AND PA 208 by Mark Moore, on Flickr

[formulanone]

Alabama 160's east end at US 231 in Cleveland (the sixth-largest Cleveland I've visited):



Alabama 167's northern end at US 231 in Troy:

[wanderer2575]

M-32's western terminus at M-66 in East Jordan:


M-66's northern terminus at US-31 in Charlevoix:


M-38's western terminus at M-64's eastern terminus (and US-45) in Ontonagon:

[paulthemapguy]

March 31: Post the junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 6 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will show thirties and sixties together.

IL-31 and IL-64 in St. Charles


IL-031-064S by Paul Across America, on Flickr

IL-135 at IL-164, taken at a weird angle to avoid sun glare, east of Oquawka


IL-164-135E by Paul Across America, on Flickr

IL-37 at IL-169 near the Ohio River, west of Karnak:


IL-037-169S by Paul Across America, on Flickr

The next 4 days:
April 1: Post the junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 7 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will show thirties and seventies together.
April 2: Post the junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 8 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will show thirties and eighties together.
April 3: Post the junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 9 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will show thirties and nineties together.
April 4: Post the junction of a route with a 4 in the tens place and another route with a 4 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will show forties intersecting with other forties.

And yes, it is a complete coincidence that our desired digits are 4 and 4 on 4/4.

[formulanone]

M-32's western terminus at M-66 in East Jordan:

I have just recently learned that they seem to make half this country's manhole covers there.

[Jim]

Even closer to home than yesterday's 30/159, it's New York 30 and New York 161 in Florida.  August 7, 2005.



New York 38 and New York 366 in Freeville.  April 15, 2023.



Since I don't want to use New York 30 twice to get 30/67 from here in Amsterdam, I'll use New York 30A and New York 67 in Johnstown.  November 2, 2008.

[xonhulu]

April 1: Post the junction of a route with a 3 in the tens place and a route with a 7 in the tens place, in your state or province. This will show thirties and seventies together.

US 30 and OR 74 at Heppner Jct, with the Columbia River in the background:

[74/171FAN]

PA 75 and PA 333 are concurrent in Port Royal.

PA 75 SOUTH AND PA 333 EAST CONCURRENCY by Mark Moore, on Flickr