Daily conversation: What is the worst possible answer?

[JayhawkCO]

US-24.

Just to see how people argue about how to drive it in Kit Carson County, Colorado.

That applies to a lot of Colorado US Routes - US6 in the mountains, US160 in Walsenburg, formerly US85 in Colorado Springs. We're not good at US Routes.

Do those others also have a physical gap, where the route designation jumps across thirty yards of grassy neutral space?  I would personally love to see an online discussion between US-24 foamers about what to do with that.

Yeah. Officially, Highway 006K (US6 in Glenwood Springs) goes from the Roundabout on 6th Street west until Deveraux Road and it just stops. Deveraux Road doesn't have an exit to I-70 where US6 continues.

US160 isn't so much of a gap as it is the signage from I-25 not matching the official designation of the path through the city.

US85 formerly ended at an overpass in Colorado Springs, but now they designated it CO85, so that state route ends at the overpass instead.

[kphoger]

Officially, Highway 006K (US6 in Glenwood Springs) goes from the Roundabout on 6th Street west until Deveraux Road and it just stops. Deveraux Road doesn't have an exit to I-70 where US6 continues.

US160 isn't so much of a gap as it is the signage from I-25 not matching the official designation of the path through the city.

US85 formerly ended at an overpass in Colorado Springs, but now they designated it CO85, so that state route ends at the overpass instead.

Dang, yeah, now I remember discussion on here about each of those three, yet somehow I totally forgot about all of them.

[The_Ginger]

14 MAY 2026

Route 66, the Lincoln Highway...  Some routes get all the love, complete with websites and driving guides dedicated to them.

What less-talked-about highway doesn't get enough love in the driving enthusiast culture?  Why should it have its day in the limelight?

WV 68, for the following reasons:

• it's what I named my profile (TheGinger68) after
• because I said so

[The_Ginger]

14 MAY 2026

Route 66, the Lincoln Highway...  Some routes get all the love, complete with websites and driving guides dedicated to them.

What less-talked-about highway doesn't get enough love in the driving enthusiast culture?  Why should it have its day in the limelight?

West Virginia Route 62

[hobsini2]

US 50. Besides the mileage signs at the beginning of the route in MD and CA, there ain't a damn thing interesting about it.

Not even the lovely burgs of Washington and Cincinnati and St Louis and Kansas City? What do they have in common?

You can hear gunshots within a few blocks of US 50's routing. That's "interesting".

[PNWRoadgeek]

14 MAY 2026

Route 66, the Lincoln Highway...  Some routes get all the love, complete with websites and driving guides dedicated to them.

What less-talked-about highway doesn't get enough love in the driving enthusiast culture?  Why should it have its day in the limelight?

Two highways here, I-90 and OR 217.

[vdeane]

So that's confirmed, he really was just an DOT IT guy?

Yep.  In VDOT Central Office.

[The_Ginger]

US 50. Besides the mileage signs at the beginning of the route in MD and CA, there ain't a damn thing interesting about it.

Not even the lovely burgs of Washington and Cincinnati and St Louis and Kansas City? What do they have in common?

You can hear gunshots within a few blocks of US 50's routing. That's "interesting".

You can't forget US 50N/US 50 Alt. at the W. Va./O. line and the Clarksburg Expressway!

[CoreySamson]

5/13/26 - What profession of employee at a DOT is best at pontificating about the topics we discuss on this site?

Chaplain

I'd bet I'm one of the only people on this forum who has worked as a chaplain (albeit a volunteer position at my university and not at a DOT).

[PNWRoadgeek]

US 50. Besides the mileage signs at the beginning of the route in MD and CA, there ain't a damn thing interesting about it.

Not even the lovely burgs of Washington and Cincinnati and St Louis and Kansas City? What do they have in common?

You can hear gunshots within a few blocks of US 50's routing. That's "interesting".

You can't forget US 50N/US 50 Alt. at the W. Va./O. line and the Clarksburg Expressway!

What goes on driving on the Clarksburg Expressway?

[The_Ginger]

US 50. Besides the mileage signs at the beginning of the route in MD and CA, there ain't a damn thing interesting about it.

Not even the lovely burgs of Washington and Cincinnati and St Louis and Kansas City? What do they have in common?

You can hear gunshots within a few blocks of US 50's routing. That's "interesting".

You can't forget US 50N/US 50 Alt. at the W. Va./O. line and the Clarksburg Expressway!

What goes on driving on the Clarksburg Expressway?

Nothing. Note the thread title.

[xonhulu]

14 MAY 2026

Route 66, the Lincoln Highway...  Some routes get all the love, complete with websites and driving guides dedicated to them.

What less-talked-about highway doesn't get enough love in the driving enthusiast culture?  Why should it have its day in the limelight?

I-238 and US 400. 

Both of these highways are admirable for making something of themselves despite growing up without parents.

[TheCatalyst31]

5/13/26 - What profession of employee at a DOT is best at pontificating about the topics we discuss on this site?

Did you and Rothman get into a break room debate about which one of you is more qualified to post on here?

That would probably be a short argument; we're both in Planning and he's a couple levels up the food chain from me, though we're in different regions.  But a discussion off this site did lead to a rather interesting factoid about a certain infamous member (which I shared on the Key Bridge thread).

I tend to avoid the Key Bridge thread for my own sanity, so I didn't read that until just now.

14 MAY 2026

Route 66, the Lincoln Highway...  Some routes get all the love, complete with websites and driving guides dedicated to them.

What less-talked-about highway doesn't get enough love in the driving enthusiast culture?  Why should it have its day in the limelight?

Since people love former U.S. Routes so much, why not give US 630 more love? The road that once ran from Weiser all the way to Weiser Junction!

[pderocco]

5/13/26 - What profession of employee at a DOT is best at pontificating about the topics we discuss on this site?

Did you and Rothman get into a break room debate about which one of you is more qualified to post on here?

That would probably be a short argument; we're both in Planning and he's a couple levels up the food chain from me, though we're in different regions.  But a discussion off this site did lead to a rather interesting factoid about a certain infamous member (which I shared on the Key Bridge thread).

I tend to avoid the Key Bridge thread for my own sanity, so I didn't read that until just now.

14 MAY 2026

Route 66, the Lincoln Highway...  Some routes get all the love, complete with websites and driving guides dedicated to them.

What less-talked-about highway doesn't get enough love in the driving enthusiast culture?  Why should it have its day in the limelight?

Since people love former U.S. Routes so much, why not give US 630 more love? The road that once ran from Weiser all the way to Weiser Junction!

A human could do that in twelve minutes.

[GaryV]

14 MAY 2026

Route 66, the Lincoln Highway...  Some routes get all the love, complete with websites and driving guides dedicated to them.

What less-talked-about highway doesn't get enough love in the driving enthusiast culture?  Why should it have its day in the limelight?

US 102, because, who knows if the physical roadways where it ran still even exist?

[kphoger]

15 MAY 2026

What is the purpose of these ramps?

[NE2]

15 MAY 2026

What is the purpose of these ramps?

Meeting place for boxtruck children.

[kphoger]

Meeting place for boxtruck children.

Now that is the sort of answer I was hoping for!

[1995hoo]

15 MAY 2026

What is the purpose of these ramps?

Roadway restricted to vehicles hauling the equipment when Bon Jovi heads out on tour.

[Big John]

15 MAY 2026

What is the purpose of these ramps?

Jefferson Starship tour truck way.

[I-55]

15 MAY 2026

What is the purpose of these ramps?

Pickup drivers involved in high speed pursuits are able to escape the police

[kphoger]

Pickup drivers involved in high speed pursuits are able to escape the police

By jumping the creek, I assume.

[I-55]

Pickup drivers involved in high speed pursuits are able to escape the police

By jumping the creek, I assume.

Correct, these ramps re particularly designed for the lifted super duties with LED lights and oversized shock absorbers

[GaryV]

15 MAY 2026

What is the purpose of these ramps?

To direct King Arthur (aka Graham Chapman) and the knights to flee the dangers of the truck ramp.

[LilianaUwU]

15 MAY 2026

What is the purpose of these ramps?

It's a truck-only ramp for the many, many towns named Runaway.