Daily conversation: What is the worst possible answer?

[Sapphuby]

10-9-25:

Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?

Kinda hard to place it between Maryland and Kentucky with their absolute generosity to make anything a state highway.

[vdeane]

10-9-25:

Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?

Alanland

[Roadgeekteen]

10-8-25:

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?

Vatican City

[kphoger]

The Perkins Union

Alanland

Get your own idea.

https://quindaropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Itselfness

[Scott5114]

10-9-25:

Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?

Molossia.

[Big John]

10-9-25:

Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?

Vatican City

[kphoger]

Vatican City

Vatican City

Tuam propriam ideam excogita.

[Dirt Roads]

10-9-25:

Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?

Ken, I'll take fractional road signs for $1000.  What is West Virginia?

[kphoger]

10-9-25:

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.

[paulthemapguy]

10-9-25:

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.

[ModernDayWarrior]

10-9-25:

Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?

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:

[TheCatalyst31]

10-9-25:

Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?

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.

[Henry]

10-9-25:

Which country/state/province uses the best system for organizing and classifying their highways in the world?

For all its faults, it would be CA, because of the no-duplicates rule that makes its numbering system the neatest in the nation.

[vdeane]

The Perkins Union

Alanland

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?).

[CoreySamson]

Alanian Rules Football match

No, not Alanian Rules Football. Kumquat Discus.

[Scott5114]

The Perkins Union

Alanland

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.

[Roadgeekteen]

10/10/25

Why are toll roads more common in the Midwest and Northeast than in the rest of the country?

[freebrickproductions]

10/10/25

Why are toll roads more common in the Midwest and Northeast than in the rest of the country?

Because money.

[Scott5114]

10/10/25

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.

[GaryV]

10/10/25

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.

[Max Rockatansky]

10/10/25

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.

[Henry]

10/10/25

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.

[1995hoo]

^^^^

I think someone is misunderstanding the point of this thread....

[1995hoo]

10/10/25

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.

[kphoger]

Pictured below are some of the fine citizens of (page torn off) celebrating their victory:

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.

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?).

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!"