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Started by kphoger, July 17, 2025, 10:50:32 PM

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Big John

#3550
March 26, 2026, 04:28:44 PM  
Quote from: The_Ginger on March 26, 2026, 03:36:44 PM
Quote from: NE2 on March 26, 2026, 01:57:15 AMMarch 26:
Where do baby highways come from?
A random number is picked for a highway (343) by the Oklahoma DOT and is then approved. The number does not have a parent. This is where baby highways come from.
The absentee parent is far away.

Max Rockatansky

#3551
March 26, 2026, 04:30:10 PM  
Quote from: Big John on March 26, 2026, 04:28:44 PM
Quote from: The_Ginger on March 26, 2026, 03:36:44 PM
Quote from: NE2 on March 26, 2026, 01:57:15 AMMarch 26:
Where do baby highways come from?
A random number is picked for a highway (343) by the Oklahoma DOT and is then approved. The number does not have a parent. This is where baby highways come from.
The absentee parent is far away.

See my note about odd numbered child routes being preferred by parent highways.

MikeTheActuary

#3552
March 26, 2026, 07:30:11 PM  
Quote from: NE2 on March 26, 2026, 01:57:15 AMMarch 26:
Where do baby highways come from?

The mother road attends a DOT convention.   In the hotel bar, alcohol is consumed, bad decisions are made...and some time later a baby highway appears in Rand McNally's atlas.

kphoger

#3553
March 26, 2026, 08:02:28 PM  
Quote from: NE2 on March 26, 2026, 01:57:15 AMMarch 26:
Where do baby highways come from?
Quote from: MikeTheActuary on March 26, 2026, 07:30:11 PMThe mother road

Should have just stopped there. :clap:
He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

kphoger

#3554
March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM  
27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?
He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

hotdogPi

#3555
March 27, 2026, 09:17:10 AM  
Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?

Make the control city say "Passenger Cars Only".
Clinched

Traveled, plus
US 13, 50, the routes below, and several state routes

New clinched: I-283

New traveled (from Harrisburg road meet):
I-76(E), 83
US 15, 322, 422
PA 39, 230, 441, 443, 743, 849
NJ 38

Lowest untraveled: 36

1995hoo

#3556
March 27, 2026, 09:22:15 AM  
Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?

Security Blvd.
Park & Ride
[yellow bottom banner with down arrows and the word ONLY]

Similar style to this other major interchange on I-70.


BTW, for anyone who doesn't know where kphoger means and who is not motivated to look up where it is, here's a Street View link to the sign he references.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

kphoger

#3557
March 27, 2026, 09:23:41 AM  
Quote from: hotdogPi on March 27, 2026, 09:17:10 AMMake the control city say "Passenger Cars Only".

Gonna be hard to top that one.
He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

Big John

#3558
March 27, 2026, 09:27:35 AM  
Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?
"Eastbound"

Max Rockatansky

#3559
March 27, 2026, 09:29:35 AM  
Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?

Cheetos Crunchy Flamin' Hot Limón

1995hoo

#3560
March 27, 2026, 09:39:28 AM  
Quote from: Big John on March 27, 2026, 09:27:35 AM
Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?
"Eastbound"

This is now prompting me to envision "other american Cities" as the control.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

kphoger

#3561
March 27, 2026, 09:42:13 AM  
I was thinking Cedar Point (which is Exit #348), but I don't think I can top "Passenger Cars Only".
He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

MikeTheActuary

#3562
March 27, 2026, 09:46:42 AM  
Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?

To quote Judy Garland, "There's no place like home"

formulanone

#3563
March 27, 2026, 10:15:18 AM  
Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?

Bat Cave

JayhawkCO

#3564
March 27, 2026, 10:16:41 AM  
Baltimore

kphoger

#3565
March 27, 2026, 11:18:48 AM  
Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?
Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:42:13 AMI don't think I can top "Passenger Cars Only".

Ooh!  Ooh!  Ooh!

The control city should be Anton, because then CDOT would be admitting the existence of US-36 there.
He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

I-55

#3566
March 27, 2026, 11:45:18 AM  
Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?

Sharon
Clarion
Bellefonte
Purdue Civil Engineering '24
Quote from: I-55 on April 13, 2025, 09:39:41 PMThe correct question is "if ARDOT hasn't signed it, why does Google show it?" and the answer as usual is "because Google Maps signs stuff incorrectly all the time"

kphoger

#3567
March 27, 2026, 11:48:03 AM  
Quote from: MikeTheActuary on March 27, 2026, 09:46:42 AMTo quote Judy Garland, "There's no place like home"

That whole thing, or just the part in quotation marks?
He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

kphoger

#3568
March 27, 2026, 11:59:56 AM  
Limon
other Midwest
Cities

Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?
He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

hobsini2

#3569
March 27, 2026, 12:22:43 PM  
Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?
DEN Airport (obvious reasons), Byers (first split) & Goodland (first NWS office)
I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes. Keep firing, assholes! - Dark Helmet (Spaceballs)

xonhulu

#3570
March 27, 2026, 12:48:07 PM  
Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?

 Turn
Around

vdeane

#3571
March 27, 2026, 12:59:14 PM  
Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?
Thru Traffic
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position of NYSDOT or its affiliates.

GaryV

#3572
March 27, 2026, 01:34:17 PM  
Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?

"Try doing that with a cola nut"

kphoger

#3573
March 27, 2026, 01:45:28 PM  
Sponsored by


Quote from: kphoger on March 27, 2026, 09:11:28 AM27 MAR 2026

Eastbound on I-70 in Colorado at Exit #282, what should be the control city for the straight-ahead movement instead of what it is currently?
He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

CoreySamson

#3574
March 27, 2026, 04:04:13 PM  
Why not a control location? Let's go with...

Extended Stay America Suites
Denver
Airport

Buc-ee's and QuikTrip fanboy. Clincher of 35 FM roads. Proponent of the TX U-turn. BA, BibLit (NT), ORU '26.

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