Daily conversation: What is the worst possible answer?

[Sapphuby]

10/4/2025:

How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?

From the contractor's perspective? At least a dollar.

[kkt]

(I want my) TWO DOLLARS!

[vdeane]

10/4/2025:

How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?

Eleventy quadzillion dollars

[xonhulu]

10/4/2025:

How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?

Less than you might think. Just extend all the interstate highways beyond their termini via unsigned multiplexes with existing interstates so they are all eventually concurrent with I-44 on the Will Rogers Turnpike, then the already-existing Will Rogers Archway will do the trick.

Total cost: a few hours' pay for whatever AASHTO secretary needs to revise all the interstate logs.

[GaryV]

10/4/2025:

How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?

Some people would only build tunnels, so zero dollars for bridges.

[TheCatalyst31]

10/4/2025:

How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?

How About building a bridge over all the North American Interstate Highway System, in all 15 North American countries, the countries will be, the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Terrtiories, Nunavut, Quebec, Greenland, Iceland, Alanland, Hawaii, Bermuda, Belize, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

[Roadgeekteen]

10/4/2025:

How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?

How About building a bridge over all the North American Interstate Highway System, in all 15 North American countries, the countries will be, the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Terrtiories, Nunavut, Quebec, Greenland, Iceland, Alanland, Hawaii, Bermuda, Belize, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

Please don't call the Eureka PD on me.

[Roadgeekteen]

10/5/2025:

Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?

[pderocco]

10/5/2025:

Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?

They don't have any states.

[Max Rockatansky]

10/5/2025:

Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?

The Owl's Interstate military forces have not yet made a move to establish a beachhead.

[xonhulu]

10/5/2025:

Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?

Since "interstate" technically means between states, that would suggest Canada build freeways whose entire purpose is to connect one US state to another. You'd think Canada would be polite enough to do this. For instance, they should spend the billions required to connect every border state to Alaska via a direct, interstate-quality freeway.  Additionally, they need to criss-cross Ontario and Quebec with freeways to directly connect both parts of Michigan with Ohio, New York and the New England states. 

Instead, they selfishly invest in roadways to mainly improve the lives of their own citizens.  How unneighborly!

[GaryV]

10/5/2025:

Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?

Redacted: Some political comment about Canada and prime minister and governor and president.

[Scott5114]

10/5/2025:

Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?

  Interstate highways pertain to states, and are therefore static objects. Objects which are static

[TheCatalyst31]

10/5/2025:

Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?

They kept having to stop construction to deal with angry moose.

[Big John]

They need to turn a new (maple) leaf.

[1995hoo]

10/5/2025:

Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?

The word "system" implies multiple roads, and that means it is impossible for Canada to have an Interstate system. After all, we all know there's only one road in Canada:

[Scott5114]

2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?

[Roadgeekteen]

2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?

Because of problems with the California educational system, especially in rural areas of the state, state officials didn't think that people could read any number higher than 55.

[Sapphuby]

2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?

Because they have to make sure the NoCal residents don't feel alienated.

[GaryV]

2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?

They are in sympathy with Illinois, which is not flat and thus cannot have highways over 55 mph.

[Max Rockatansky]

2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?

Urbanist conspiracy to make rural folk use the High Speed Rail.

[1995hoo]

2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?

They don't want Sammy Hagar's song to be rendered irrelevant.

[kphoger]

10/4/2025:

How much does it cost to build a bridge over all the current interstates?

A lot less than you might think, because most current Interstates already have bridges over them.  You'd only need to build the remaining ones.  Probably the most expensive one would be putting the UP freight yard in Cheyenne over I-180 instead of under it.

[kphoger]

10/5/2025:

Why doesn't Canada have an Interstate system like America does?

The US Interstate system took shape to improve cross-country military travel in defense of the nation.  But who would want to invade Canada (other than John Candy?)

[kphoger]

2025-10-06:
Why are so many flat CA state highways signed at 55 MPH?

Because that's the speed limit.  And, by some weird quirk of California state law, it's one of the only states where the posted speed limit has to match the actual speed limit.