US or Interstate highways that leave a state and then come back

[cpzilliacus]

A pedestrian or cyclist using the new bridge's walkway might notice it. The state/territory lines are marked in the concrete on the walkway, though you have to bend over a bit to read it (at least, I did). Unfortunately I cannot find any of the pictures I took of it when I took a bike ride over the bridge. The whole folder seems to have disappeared and I have no idea why, since I seldom delete any folders from the pictures directory.

In the bad old days of the old Woodrow Wilson Bridge (the 1961 span, now demolished), there were signs that marked the D.C./Md. and D.C./Va. borders, since D.C. (at the time) insisted that its municipal police (the Metropolitan Police Department) had to investigate all crashes (at least those with injury) that happened on "its" section of the span.  Of course, that meant that incidents and crashes would take added hours to resolve, since the closest streets that the MPD's 7th District might possibly be patrolling are 3 or more miles away - even worse if it was the Outer Loop, since the responding officers had to go across the bridge to Alexandria, turn around at U.S. 1 (probably getting lost in the process) and come back to the incident.

[Alps]

Bottom line, I was conversing with the people here and was simply responding.

Not sure how politics got involved here.  But if you can't be bothered to read the other posts in the thread, then you've forgotten that half of conversing is listening to the other people.

Hear, hear.

FWIW, it's MUCH more helpful to contact me directly with information, rather than holding onto it for years and then posting it midway through a rant. My page DOES say Lake St. was the last, but I'll remove US 202 from being mentioned. Note that the original page was written before we had Historic Aerials, so we were all going on memory and maps back then.

Finally - I have many conservative friends. I will not hide a liberal bias as far as SOCIAL issues go. I am not blindly liberal on other issues. I respect people who think for themselves, and I do not respect people who repeat their party's mantra, regardless of which party that is.

[bugo]

The original US 271 did this.

[1995hoo]

A pedestrian or cyclist using the new bridge's walkway might notice it. The state/territory lines are marked in the concrete on the walkway, though you have to bend over a bit to read it (at least, I did). Unfortunately I cannot find any of the pictures I took of it when I took a bike ride over the bridge. The whole folder seems to have disappeared and I have no idea why, since I seldom delete any folders from the pictures directory.

In the bad old days of the old Woodrow Wilson Bridge (the 1961 span, now demolished), there were signs that marked the D.C./Md. and D.C./Va. borders, since D.C. (at the time) insisted that its municipal police (the Metropolitan Police Department) had to investigate all crashes (at least those with injury) that happened on "its" section of the span.  Of course, that meant that incidents and crashes would take added hours to resolve, since the closest streets that the MPD's 7th District might possibly be patrolling are 3 or more miles away - even worse if it was the Outer Loop, since the responding officers had to go across the bridge to Alexandria, turn around at U.S. 1 (probably getting lost in the process) and come back to the incident.

How long ago was this and what size signs were they? I don't ever recall seeing any DC signs on the old Wilson Bridge.