Question-and-answer thread

[TravelingBethelite]

This is something I've been wanting to do for a while. I have planned this thread to be reciprocal; i.e., you answer the previous question and then ask one of your own.

Example:

A: I-99 and I-238 are the two major violations of the Interstate numbering system.
Q: What U.S. route formerly paralleled Interstate 5?

(Of course, the answer is U.S. 99.)

I'll start it off with a question: Is there any town in Connecticut without a state route within its confines? 

[pianocello]

Is this meant to be like a trivia thread, or a thread for questions that the poster doesn't know the answer to?

(To your answer your question, I'm going to guess no. The density of state routes is pretty high in CT, and since I'm not very familiar with the state, I don't feel like looking up each individual town to check.)

[jp the roadgeek]

Looked at a road map, and the least I see are New Hartford and Kent with 1 each (CT 219 and 341, respectively), though New Hartford has 2 US routes (44 and 202) and Kent has 1 US route (7).

[TravelingBethelite]

Is this meant to be like a trivia thread, or a thread for questions that the poster doesn't know the answer to?

(To your answer your question, I'm going to guess no. The density of state routes is pretty high in CT, and since I'm not very familiar with the state, I don't feel like looking up each individual town to check.)

I intend this, for any one person, to answer the previous person's question and then ask one of their own.

[vdeane]

Is this meant to be like a trivia thread, or a thread for questions that the poster doesn't know the answer to?

(To your answer your question, I'm going to guess no. The density of state routes is pretty high in CT, and since I'm not very familiar with the state, I don't feel like looking up each individual town to check.)

I intend this, for any one person, to answer the previous person's question and then ask one of their own.

But are people intended to ask a question they don't know the answer to or "challenge" the board to a trivia question?

[davewiecking]

Answer: Either way you wish.
Question: What is your favorite colour?

[SD Mapman]

Answer: Blue! No, wait AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*SD Mapman was thrown into the Gorge of Eternal Peril*

[Kacie Jane]

Thank you. I was going to post the same thing but somehow got distracted halfway through. Monty Python references are always acceptable.

[davewiecking]

Question: What's the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[TravelingBethelite]

Is this meant to be like a trivia thread, or a thread for questions that the poster doesn't know the answer to?

(To your answer your question, I'm going to guess no. The density of state routes is pretty high in CT, and since I'm not very familiar with the state, I don't feel like looking up each individual town to check.)

I intend this, for any one person, to answer the previous person's question and then ask one of their own.

But are people intended to ask a question they don't know the answer to or "challenge" the board to a trivia question?

A little of both, I suppose.I'll get this back on topic by supposing a question...

What's the highest well-signed route in the United States? 

[Alex]

If this thread continues with more random questions I'll just move it to off topic for you.

Probably also worth specifying if you intend on it being more like a trivia contest. 

[TravelingBethelite]

If this thread continues with more random questions I'll just move it to off topic for you.

Probably also worth specifying if you intend on it being more like a trivia contest. 

I intend it to be a trivia "contest", so to speak, but also as a legitimate place to ask questions you don't know the answer to/where to find an answer and as a place to contribute our own individual spheres of knowledge to these questions. 

[Kacie Jane]

What's the highest well-signed route in the United States? 

I was going to guess one of Louisiana's 3xxx routes, but then I remembered the existence of FL 9336, which I think qualifies as well-signed, though I've never seen it in person.

I'm not going to pose a question though, since I'm approximately 5% sure of my answer, if that.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

I'd say the highest well-signed route in the US is CO 82, which reaches 12,093 feet (3,686 meters) at Independence Pass. Unless US 34 reaches higher, which I don't know.

Edit: I checked Wikipedia and yup, US 34 reaches even higher at 12,183 feet (3,713 meters) through Rocky Mountain NP.

[Kacie Jane]

The irony that I picked probably one of the lowest routes altitude-wise to answer my interpretation of the question is not lost on me.

(Though there are certainly lower. CA 190 through Death Valley may win this one.)

[Max Rockatansky]

I'd say the highest well-signed route in the US is CO 82, which reaches 12,093 feet (3,686 meters) at Independence Pass. Unless US 34 reaches higher, which I don't know.

Edit: I checked Wikipedia and yup, US 34 reaches even higher at 12,183 feet (3,713 meters) through Rocky Mountain NP.

Actually CO 5 would top it at 14,264 at the top of Mount Evans, at least I'm fairly certain the route logs for Colorado show it ending at the summit.  Now if it's actually signed all the way up to the top is another story entirely because I don't see a CO 5 sign for quite a while on the 2008 Google car view.  I'm also fairly certain you're right about CA 190 being the lowest highway in the U.S. but I don't know how many feet it gets below -280 before Bad Water Road.

On the flip side I'm fairly certain the bottom for CA 111 is -184 feet while CA 86 isn't too far behind next to the Salton Sea.