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You ever get a twitch in your eye when you see I-238?

• jedberg 10y ago
  Every time.
• selimthegrim 10y ago
  99 is a real tearjerker too
  • sverige 10y ago
    I-69 and its three branches (69W, 69C, 69E) in Texas always gets an emotional response from me.
    • amyjess 10y ago
      At some point decades from now, it won't be quite as bad because all the different segments of I-69 will be united. We'll still have a weird three-way split in South Texas, but north of the split they'll form a single highway going all the way to the Canadian border instead of the current disjointed highway segments. And there are parts of the country where I-69 fits in between I-65 and I-75, so while the name is awkward in Texas, that's not the case in the Indiana and Michigan. But this will take decades due to limited funding and a bunch of states that just don't care. I'll be lucky to see it in my lifetime, and if I do, I'll be an old lady. What weirds me out in that area, by the way, is that I-2 even exists. I grew up understanding that I-4 was the lowest-numbered Interstate in the country (and my family went to Florida often enough when I was a kid that I was quite familiar with that road), and it still hasn't quite sunk in yet that it got dethroned.
  • amyjess 10y ago
    I-99 is particularly aggravating because of how it came into existence. At least I-238 exists by necessity. I-99 has its number because a showboating Congressman snuck the number in as a rider on a bill because he thought "highest possible two-digit interstate" would get his state some more tourism. As such, I-99 is the only interstate AASHTO is forbidden by law from renaming.