Highway Conspiracy Theories

[thspfc]

That I-80 is the "real" longest 2di, because the Chicago Skyway on I-90 does not count, thus breaking it into two separate sections.

Genuine question, what makes the Skyway different from other toll roads?

[thenetwork]

My wife just introduced me to this concept via a conspiracy theory about Belmont Subway in Fresno.  Said underpass structure was completed in 1932 and once carried US 99 to the Belmont Traffic Circle (the first such circle in California incidentally).  Apparently there is a social media video going around claiming a vampire lives in Belmont Subway.  The video claims that the High Speed Rail Authority Authority is demolishing the structure to kill and/or entomb the alleged vampire. 

FWIW Belmont Subway was part of the Fresno Road Meet in 2023.  To my knowledge there was no vampire related incursions.

Edit:  My investigator found the Belmont Subway Vampire video for me.

https://www.tiktok.com/@witchdarktales/video/7310886729601322270?_t=ZT-8uZjjCOKMBC&_r=1

Whew! I'm glad SOMEBODY came up to bat to find the video...

[TheHighwayMan3561]

That I-80 is the "real" longest 2di, because the Chicago Skyway on I-90 does not count, thus breaking it into two separate sections.

Genuine question, what makes the Skyway different from other toll roads?

The alleged problem that led to the "TO I-90" nonsense was that IDOT came to believe the Skyway was never formally submitted as an Interstate highway and thus was never approved to be part of I-90. Even though IDOT themselves still believed and worked under the assumption it was, in fact, still I-90 for that period they pretended it was not.

[US20IL64]

Skyway was in line with I-94/IN Toll Road for a few years, then got swapped with Borman/Calumet/Bishop Ford.

[Henry]

That I-80 is the "real" longest 2di, because the Chicago Skyway on I-90 does not count, thus breaking it into two separate sections.

Genuine question, what makes the Skyway different from other toll roads?

The alleged problem that led to the "TO I-90" nonsense was that IDOT came to believe the Skyway was never formally submitted as an Interstate highway and thus was never approved to be part of I-90. Even though IDOT themselves still believed and worked under the assumption it was, in fact, still I-90 for that period they pretended it was not.

IDOT had nothing to do with the Skyway, that was all the City of Chicago's thinking.

[Molandfreak]

US 13 was numbered in honor of John Raskob's 13 children.

[oscar]

While Interstate H-3 was being built through the Halawa Valley north of Honolulu, there were reports of mysterious things happening to construction equipment, due to a "hewa" (curse) on the highway based on its proximity to native Hawaiian sacred sites. However, all the funny stuff went away after H-3 was completed, along with its sophisticated accident monitoring system due to its relatively remote location.

[english si]

Somehow the UK motorway network is growing despite concrete not being poured.

The length of the network has gone up by 82 miles in the last decade, but we've only built 24.

This is due to more accurate surveying - but unlike Louis XIV's attempt to survey France (the results of which he declared to the surveyors that they lost him more than land than all his enemies) - it gives a larger number than previously thought. And with complaints that we're not building the infrastructure for our growing population, that's politically advantageous...

https://x.com/MichaelDnes1/status/1903357970492117018