Comments on: 3DIs - The final frontier

3DIs - The final frontier

falconred — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:33:37 -0800

3-digit Interstate Highways - Everything you (n)ever wanted to know about the offshoots of the U.S. Interstate system, including naming conventions and the evil I-238. [via Fark]

By: kozad

kozad — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:42:57 -0800

All right, this has nothing to do with Interstates, but did anyone notice that Route 666 (which I drove last year when it was still 666, through the awesome Monument Valley) was changed recently? I guess the devil gotta drive somewheres else now.

By: Recockulous

Recockulous — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:45:25 -0800

I declare my time at metafilter productive when i learn something new, as i just did from this link.

By: plemeljr

plemeljr — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:58:15 -0800

It always amazes me the level of people's wonderful obsessions.

By: skynxnex

skynxnex — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:58:26 -0800

In the Washington DC area, and I'm sure other areas, there needs to be 4-digit numbering. I-270, where it connects to I-495, splits for several miles, so there is both I-270 and I-270 Spur for several miles making a fork. I suppose the latter should be I-2270, following the numbering rules. :)

By: drinkcoffee

drinkcoffee — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:59:37 -0800

I drive 476 all the time, and never knew it was the longest 3di! Thanks.

By: ChasFile

ChasFile — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:17:28 -0800

From my own personal highway weirdness department: There is a wonderful moment on my drive to Cornell that takes place in Binghamton, NY, where I am simultaneously driving West on NY Rt. 17, East on I-88, and North on I-81. It only is about a 1-mile stretch of interchange, but it always makes me smile. There is even an overhead sign that lists all 3 highways invovled in this time space anomoly - and their contradictory vectors - to prove it Just thought I'd share.

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:32:23 -0800

I went to IC, ChasFile, and I was just now thinking about that stretch! It's bizarre, and I'm glad you posted about it. ('cause I couldn't remember I-88's number).

By: PrinceValium

PrinceValium — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:32:32 -0800

Woohoo! I was hoping this would get posted here. Roadgeeking, as it's called, is a wonderful obsession, but not unusual. The newsgroup misc.transport.road has been extremely active on Usenet for almost a decade. Here's a good index to other roadgeek sites. My favorite is the US Highways Ends Page with pictures of the termini of federal highways. (last link geocities, tread lightly) Kurumi is a mefite. He also hosts Connecticut Roads (full disclosure: I'm a one-time "guest columnist" and occasionally cited source) and my favorite, the SignMaker, a java applet that lets you create your own custom highway signs. Those who are slightly less geeky and interested in the cultural and historical impact of the interstate highway system should check out NYCRoads.com (which I posted here last year), which is a really well-detailed and well-researched source of information about the NY/NJ/CT tristate and other urban highway networks.

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:42:56 -0800

No 3DI can touch the Magic Roundabout.

By: dmd

dmd — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:43:45 -0800

Not as good as Chasfile's example, but here's Kansas East 56 and West 31 ...

By: LinemanBear

LinemanBear — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:37:00 -0800

The internet must be built like Boston, because Fark Street and Metafilter Way meet again. ;)

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:56:25 -0800

There's an area in SW Virginia where several roads join to feed through a mountain pass, so you'll be on I-77-N, I-81-S, somethingelse-W, and yetanotherroad-E, all in the same direction (MOL W).

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:51:52 -0800

In the Washington DC area, and I'm sure other areas, there needs to be 4-digit numbering. I-270, where it connects to I-495, splits for several miles, so there is both I-270 and I-270 Spur for several miles making a fork. Something vaguely like that was true of I-465 in Indianapolis for many years. Just a few years ago the "spur" part was renumbered as I-865.

By: falconred

falconred — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:13:22 -0800

Vidiot - I can only imagine the chaos that would cause if implemented in the U.S.

By: internal

internal — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:28:06 -0800

Attention Philly Mefites! I once was stopped at what I could swear was a stoplight on Interstate 676 before you cross the Delaware. Of course this was 10 years ago, so I might be wrong. Can anyone verify this?

By: purplemonkie

purplemonkie — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:45:02 -0800

I have nothing of import to contribute to this thread other than to say: ChasFile and Vidiot, I went to Cornell and lived in Ithaca for 9 years and have driven along that particular stretch of road many times. I would also like to add that Ithaca is Gorges. That is all, sorry, carry on.

By: msacheson

msacheson — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:08:56 -0800

NY Rt. 17 moment, from a Syracuse Alum: Roscoe Diner.

By: logovisual

logovisual — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:26:14 -0800

Hey, I didn't know the Sunshine Skyway fishing pier was the longest in the world! Now I get to not-wow my friends with that factoid! (I'm not being snarky, that actually got me excited. Great post.)

By: hockeyman

hockeyman — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:39:55 -0800

I635 around Dallas does not connect with I35W, it connects with I35E. I35W is in Fort Worth. Don't want yall gettin lost!

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:52:57 -0800

This is wonderful, thanks falconred; as a road geek I love stuff like this. (Here's the Roads of Maine, from my neck of the woods.) Didn't eat at the Roscoe Diner, but did stay at the Roscoe Motel — nice trout stream out back of the place — with my son a few years ago on our way to once again drive that famous stretch of road simultaneously driving West on NY Rt. 17, East on I-88, and North on I-81. On our way to Ithaca, in fact, to visit my sister and her family. The loneliest Interstates must be the ones in Hawaii.