Daily conversation: What is the worst possible answer?

[Dirt Roads]

What 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.

[I-55]

What 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.

[paulthemapguy]

What 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.

[formulanone]

What 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.

[jeffandnicole]

What 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.

[TheCatalyst31]

What 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.

[LilianaUwU]

8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?

[NE2]

8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?

Because pooing is cool.

[Scott5114]

8/7/2025: Why did Ontario dump most of its highway mileage in 1997 and 1998?

It was cheating on them with another province.

[Max Rockatansky]

8/7/2025: 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.

[GaryV]

8/7/2025: 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.

[1995hoo]

8/7/2025: 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.

[vdeane]

8/7/2025: 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.

[MikeTheActuary]

Why 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.

[formulanone]

8/7/2025: 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.

[Mav94]

8/7/2025: 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.

[kkt]

8/7/2025: 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...

[TheCatalyst31]

8/7/2025: 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.

[Henry]

8/7/2025: 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.

[PNWRoadgeek]

8/8/2025: What's the nearest hub city to Denver?

[NE2]

8/8/2025: What's the nearest hub city to Denver?

The what?

[Scott5114]

8/8/2025: 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.

[jlam]

8/8/2025: What's the nearest hub city to Denver?

Limon

[Scott5114]

8/8/2025: What's the nearest hub city to Denver?

Limon

This is the worst answer thread, sir.

[pderocco]

8/8/2025: What's the nearest hub city to Denver?

Limon

This is the worst answer thread, sir.

Martin-de-Viviès, île Amsterdam

Is that bad enough?