The Interstate Highways. You paid for them. Which ones have you been on?

foreverfree | 8/16/03 | foreverfree

[foreverfree]

By this I mean as a driver or a passenger. Hitchhikers will count too (though I have never done that).

Here are the ones I've been on, based on memory, broken down by state:

AZ: I-8, I-10

CA: I-5, I-8, I-405, I-710 (when it was CA 7), I-10, I-280, I-80, I-880 (when it was CA 17)

CT: I-95, I-91, I-84

DE: I-95, I-295, I-495

DC: I-95/495, I-295, I-395

FL: I-95, I-75, I-4, I-275

GA: I-95

KY: I-71/75, I-275

ME: I-95, I-295, I-395

MD: I-68, I-70, I-270, I-81, I-83, I-95, I-195, I-295, I-395, I-495, I-695, I-795, I-895

MA: I-84, I-90, I-290, I-93, I-95, I-495

NH: I-89, I-93, I-95

NJ: I-76, I-78, I-80, I-95, I-195, I-295, I-676, I-287

NY: I-84, I-87, I-88, I-90, I-95, I-495, I-190, I-290, I-787, I-390, I-490, I-86 (when it was NY 17)

NC: I-95

OH: I-71/75, I-71, I-76, I-77, I-277, I-90

PA: I-95, I-76, I-276, I-476, I-176, I-78, I-80, I-81, I-283, I-83, I-279, I-70, I-99 (when it was strictly US 220 before "I-99" was added)

RI: I-95

SC: I-95

VT: I-89, I-189, I-91

VA: I-64, I-66, I-81, I-95, I-295, I-395, I-495, I-95/495, I-264, I-464, I-564

WV: I-81

[foreverfree]

I've been nowhere near WA state and therefore have yet to set foot (or wheel) on Interstate 82. Yet I paid for it. Wonder why I haven't have sleepless nights over this?

foreverfree

[gcruse]

I went to the barber today and told her to cut my hair all off. I look like a biker/prison camp inmate. Feel my head.

[Rokke]

You are bored. Reaaallllyyy bored.

[hillary's_fat_a**]

My sentiments exactly. ROFLMAO!

[GOPmember]

Moose, sister, cheese, etc (just to get it out of the way from the outset).

[corkoman]

zot alert

[Thor_Hammar]

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but we all pay for a lot of things we do not use. But before I explain why your post is someone inane, I must explain something that seems to have escaped you.

Congress authorized a system of highways during the Eisenhower administration to interconnect military bases. What you think are interstate highways are, in fact, teh National Defense Highway System. The purposed of that system was to move men and materiel rapidly around the country should the United States homeland be attacked. (One of the lessons learned from the technological developements of World War II was that those technologies, particularly aviation technologies and missile technologies would require rapid mobilization and deployments.)

I doubt you would make this statement: "Aircraft carriers. You paid for them. How many have you been on?"

Yes, it's true we paid for the 12 active aircraft carriers. But that does not mean we can simply paddle up to one and expect a tour by an admiral.

[smoothsailing]

Say what you will, I refuse to return those library books.

[afuturegovernor]

WOOOOOOOOO WHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Nothing like a good ole Saturday Night Thread on FR!! Party on Freepers!

[The Duke]

Surely...surely....you've travelled I-40???

[woofie]

I live close to I40 and I25 interchange...and old Route 66 .I can hear them trucks headed to California

[southernnorthcarolina]

AY: I-559, I-784

JF: I-3872

MG: I-¨ª¥Ð

XE: I-3.14159

[Rebelbase]

"You are bored. Reaaallllyyy bored."

Bump.

[Rebelbase]

No, this isn't a zot alert....we'll know the mods are sleeping if this doesn't get moved to chat.

[BabsC]

Look for the blue signs with the 5 white stars on the interstate. I believe that signifies a stretch of road straight enough to land a large plane on.

[kidd]

I've been nowhere near WA state and therefore have yet to set foot (or wheel) on Interstate 82. Yet I paid for it.

Somehow, some way, its because of global warming.

[Paleo Conservative]

Yes, it's true we paid for the 12 active aircraft carriers. But that does not mean we can simply paddle up to one and expect a tour by an admiral.

[The Duke]

As a young college student in the mid 70's I traveled a 100-mile stretch of I-40 most weekends between school and home in West Tennessee.

Those were good days, cruisin' down that dark ribbon of hiway in my '73 Mach 1 while listening to Lynard Skynard!

[StriperSniper]

Moose sheets

[mrsmith]

Ah, you kids and your "interstate highways"!

Route 60- now that was a highway! And you could drive farm vehicles on it too, in fact I believe most people in front of me did!