Posted on 11/22/2017 7:00:02 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Most of you will be surprised to learn that this spring, while we were all fretting about what the Legislature or Jared Kushner’s father-in-law will do next, Texas got itself a new interstate highway: Interstate 14.
Yup. Fourteen.
Odd number for an interstate, given that most of them end in a zero or a five. The story behind that number, which I’ll get to shortly, is even odder.
But, yes, in April, a couple of congressmen and other dignitaries gathered in Bell County to celebrate the opening of I-14 from Belton through Killeen and on to Fort Hood. Well, more accurately, the renaming of U.S. 190 through those 25 miles. That stretch of road for quite some time has been interstate-like, with four freeway lanes and frontage roads for most of its path.
So, really, all Texas drivers got were some new signs with the red-white-and-blue interstate shields rather than the homelier black-and-white version on mere U.S. highways. That, and the honor of being the first interstate section — and probably the last, for awhile — of the 14th Amendment Highway Corridor.
That’s right: The state now has a highway that honors a constitutional amendment. And not just any constitutional amendment: The 14th, which has five diverse sections, was one of several “Reconstruction amendments” enacted in the wake of the Union prevailing in the Civil War, and perhaps its most meaningful element was to set in stone the citizenship rights of freed slaves.
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Hmm, near me I have I-94, I-96, and I-69. Oh yeah, I also have I-75. so one out of four Interstate highways in Michigan end in a zero or a five.
I don't know where the author got that "most of them end in a zero or a five" crap. Most of the Interstates do NOT end in a zero or a five. The general rule is odd numbers run North and South, even numbers run East and West. Three digit roads with an odd first digit are spurs, and even first digit is a bypass.
Here in small-state Kentucky we also have I-75 and I-65, but also I-64 and I-24. The writer is crazy.
14 isn’t odd...
Tennessee has I-24
theres an I-84, 64, 26, 59, etc...
I may have missed something, but a quick count showed 17 two digit Interstates ending in 5 or 0, and either 58 or 55 that don’t. The issue with those that don’t are that there are 5 cases where a number is used twice, with no prospect of connection - I-76, I-84, I-86, I-87, and I-88
Most interesting to me is the fact that there is no I-50 or I-60 shown on the list I was reviewing.
One of the original rules of the Interstate Highway system was that no route shall go through a state in which its number matches that of a U.S. route. That’s probably the reason why there isn’t a I-50 or I-60.
Of course, nowadays, that rule is out the window in some cases. For example, I-41 in Wisconsin mostly follows the path of U.S. 41.
He’s an idiot. Texas has I-2, I-27, I-69, I-69E, I-69C, I-69W in addition to I-14.
I-14 is called the 14th Amendment Highway, but it has the number because it fits in the grid between I-10 and I-20 and that is what AASHTO and the Federal Highway Administration agreed to.
I-84 runs from Salt Lake City to Portland. I-82 connects I-84 to I-90.
The 14th Amendment unnaturalized the country. Congress only citizenship and immigration power was keeping US citizenship the same natural kind.
I-10 pretty much crosses Texas from west to east.
But I guess that amendment doesn’t matter.
And numbers were supposed to get higher as you moved west to east and south to north. But I 85 south of Atlanta is west of I 75.
Yeah... He didn't do much in the way of research, for sure..
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