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  • thejokker, on 03/07/2008, -5/+75now if only we could get some real repairs to this thing
    • soupdawg30, on 03/07/2008, -2/+5I-10 in Texas is always being worked on. Looking great now.
      • ozid, on 03/07/2008, -1/+3ditto with the 10 between LA and Palm Springs. (more like Ontario and Palm Springs, actually)
      • barfooz, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2and between Phoenix and Tucson. It's a pretty nice road.
        • jmpeagle, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3so anwhere where it is dry and ice, sleet, and rain don't create havok and potholes year round
          • SimianSamurai, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Yeah, Missouri is *****
          • typobox43, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1All Missouri highways are crap. It's amazing what happens when I stray east across the border.
          • Dubbsacc, on 03/07/2008, -2/+1Wrong reply button, sorry.
        • Dubbsacc, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1It's still two lanes, which is horrible, not to mention all the Semi's.
      • Eallan, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4I think you mean ALL roads in Texas get worked on ALL the time.
        410 in San Antonio is a ***** cause they won't finish it. Same with 610 in Houston, 59 has been worked on since the 60's.

        I just want them to finish a ***** project before tearing out another road. Someone in the gov't has some buddies in road construction with some nice kickbacks is my best guess.
        • ornellasm, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2610 is a thousand times better now than it was a few years back, especially in the Galleria area.
      • mikesbaker, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2too bad I 35 in texas still blows
      • Denneval, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1The width of I35 in Denton is like the fit of Kirstie Alley inside a toilet paper roll.
    • meteors, on 03/07/2008, -9/+2The interstate system was developed after US forces saw the networks of roads built to move assets in Nazi Germany.

      Every five miles of interstate highway must have one mile of straightaway to serve as landing strip.

      This image is a very good way to plan a cross-country road trip.
      • Rbstr, on 03/07/2008, -1/+10That's a myth, there are no requirements on miles strait to miles curved.
        • danomagnum, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2Right. And the interstates differ from highways in other countries (such as the autobahn) because they go through major cities
      • floorman56, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was influenced by his experiences in 1919 as a young soldier crossing the country (following the route of the Lincoln Highway) and his appreciation of the German autobahn network as a necessary component of a national defense system
    • CalamariAce, on 03/07/2008, -6/+6Sorry, the gov't would rather tax you to destroy and then rebuild foreign infrastructure rather than to tax you to fix our own infrastructure.
    • Connormac44, on 03/07/2008, -1/+4If only we could turn those highways into Maglev railways!
    • ayeroxor, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1thejokker? anyhow...

      This expansive system wouldn't need to be so congested if we caught up with the rest of the industrialized world and made a reality a system of high-speed rail from major city to major city. I'd have probably seen most of the country by now.
      • floorman56, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2Yea right ...
        We are trying to put a new railroad here in South Dakota ...its a nightmare ...the cost is in the billions ( 2.5) now , people don't want rails nearby ..or for the government to take peoples land to "give" to a private co. to make money with. And If rails are so good ...Why does Amtrak need money from the government to keep going ?
        • ayeroxor, on 03/08/2008, -1/+1"And If rails are so good ...Why does Amtrak need money from the government to keep going ?"

          Ask yourself, if the rest of the world has rails, why does AmTrak keep ***** it up.

          It's NOT the other way around.
  • Vaiosaurus, on 03/07/2008, -2/+30Just two lefts and I am in Los Angeles! Go Joe!
    • bryik, on 03/07/2008, -0/+12I always make a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
    • AtiimKiambu, on 03/07/2008, -3/+2Just two lefts and I'm... back where I started. CRAP!!
    • woohhaa, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1And knowing is half the battle.
  • bankhead, on 03/07/2008, -0/+30I would like to see what the Army's original map includes to see how it has really evolved! Initially the Army did not have a need to construct roads in southern Florida, since the enemy couldn't could advance northward if the peninsula was defended properly. Oh yeah, and the west Texas oil fields weren't a point of interest on their original plans either....how times have changed!
    • patik, on 03/07/2008, -0/+6The oil fields weren't a point of interest until they added a million miles of highway to drive on to create a need for that oil.
  • djdavey, on 03/07/2008, -2/+5That's actually really cool. I may try a road trip from Ca to Fla on the 10. Looks like fun.
    • timla, on 03/07/2008, -0/+10Well, I have done 1/2 of it and the stretch from LA to Houston is pretty boring. A few mountains, but nothing that interesting.
    • iammustangman, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2That would be fun.... from New Orleans on
      Before that, most of it is very long and very much the same :(
    • elcidcannon, on 03/07/2008, -0/+12No, its not. Its the most boring thing ever. Texas and the Florida Panhandle are ridiculously boring.
      • RoboRay, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2So is everything in between, except New Orleans.
    • brucerchapman, on 03/07/2008, -1/+4Done it from coast to coast. The western states are the best, the most boring bit is the first half of texas. Also driven the length of the 5, most of the 95 and half of the 80. All in a 1974 dodge camper with a big block V8. I donated it to charity when I was done but I don't think they made much money from it. That was back in 2000 when $2.00/Gal was considered outrageous price gauging. I'd hate to try now.
      • Connormac44, on 03/07/2008, -2/+9You left out your brother's middle name.
    • MacEnvy, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1I-90 from Boston to Seattle is pretty cool too.
    • edwartica, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1i-5 from Canada to Mexico...that's fun.
  • bongbishop, on 03/07/2008, -13/+69Buried for inaccurate. Where's 94 from Minneapolis/St Paul to Milwaukee and Chicago? Also 75 ends in Miami. Boo.
    • shadowblade989, on 03/07/2008, -1/+25Post-Eisenhower defense network additions.
    • TheThirdWheel, on 03/07/2008, -2/+5Also, 95 does not pass through Raleigh
      • A14049752, on 03/07/2008, -0/+5That's why it says simplified. 70 doesn't go through Pittsburgh, either but it gets you close enough.
      • tzon, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3I guess they're using approximations. The closest i-95 gets to Raleigh is, I believe, Smithfield. LIkewise, I-40 terminates in Wilmington, not Raleigh as shown.
        • facelessrage, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2Get off 95 at Benson and take 40 to Raleigh, or get off at Smithfield and take 70 to Raleigh. Which turns into I-440...a beltline of I-40
        • kosmoX, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3Indeed, I-40 ends in Wilmington. In fact, once you get on 40 here in Wilmington, you see a sign that says "Barstow, CA 2XXX Miles"
    • way2muchsense, on 03/07/2008, -2/+5More errata - (1) I-95 does not pass through Columbia, SC. (2) I-26 is missing altogether. It runs from Knoxville, TN, through Columbia, to Florence, SC, at I-95 on the way to Myrtle Beach. Erie, PA, is in the wrong position. It should be on I-90.
      • elcidcannon, on 03/07/2008, -2/+1I wanted to note that, too.
        • onefatfrog, on 03/07/2008, -0/+0I don't know about everywhere else, but in East TN (Kingsport, Johnson City, NOT Knoxville) I-26 just came about 5 or 6 years ago. It was formerly 181.
      • bigrubberducky, on 03/07/2008, -0/+0Actually, I75 and I40 are the only 2 interstates that run through Knoxville, TN. I believe I26 runs from Nashville, down through Chattanooga (or at least around it really closely) and then on to the other places you mentioned.
        • ir6c, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1I26 Runs from Kingsport TN to Charleston, SC
        • avatar28, on 03/08/2008, -0/+1Actually, that's I-24 and it's missing. It also goes beyond Nashville through sw KY a bit and from there I'm not sure. St Louis maybe.
    • dinobot, on 03/07/2008, -5/+1Agreed, they dont include Laredo either, the biggest inland port and the south end of the I-35
    • ulmedas, on 03/07/2008, -1/+9And hawii's interstates? Maybe those came later as well, but I know they were planing them at the same time.
    • usaar33, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1And I-15 goes to San Diego, not Los Angelas
      • jenrzzz1, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2It is very simplified, but I-15 actually breaks off the I-5 around San Ysidro, then crossing over the I-8, CA-94, CA-52, and CA-56 I think.
      • FattyRooster, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1The 15 goes all the way to Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego
    • LoveWidescreen, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2And I-70 does NOT pass anywhere NEAR Harrisburg. If you go due south from Harrisburg about 75 miles, you'll eventually reach I-70 -- near Frederick, MD! Harrisburg and the closest part of I-70 aren't even in the same STATE! Oh, well. Still a cool diagram.
      • erocklodge, on 03/07/2008, -0/+0Actually if you go south from Harrisburg you'll end up in Baltimore and that road is known as I-83 which isn't even shown in this map. This map also completely omits I-68 which connects I-70 in MD to I-79 in WV.
    • burnttoast11, on 03/07/2008, -0/+14Thanks for pointing that out. I can tell by your avatar that you know what you are talking about.
    • Zera, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2Very neat map, but yes, 94 heads east from Minneapolis/St. Paul and joins with 90 in Tomah, Wisconsin. But then it splits off from 90 again in Madison, WI and goes through Milwaukee to Chicago.

      It would be neat to see a complete modern version of this map, simplified of course.
    • zulfy26, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Theres only 1 city on there twice.
    • Abomonog, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1I264 and I664 are totally missing from the map. I 64 ends in Virginia Beach and not Richmond. I 75 ends in Key West and not Miami. And I 75 needs to make a left at Ft. Meyers and end in Miami.
      • AceTracer, on 03/20/2008, -0/+1Three digit interstate highways are branches of two digit highways, their numbers are not unique and often duplicated in different areas so there's no point in counting them.

        The southern terminus of I-75 is right at the edge Miami-Dade County, where it merges into SR-826. There are ZERO interstate highways that go past Miami southbound, if you go south via any highway (I-95, I-75, SR-826, Florida Turnpike) you eventually spill into US-1, the only road the goes into the Keys, stopping at Key West.
    • Alphi1, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1@Abomonog
      Notice that all of the highway numbers on the image are two-digit? This is by design... All freeways with the third digit just indicates that it's a highway either split off from or paralleling another one (which is the last two digits).

      I suspect this map shows just the "main" freeways. For example, your I264 and I664 must be either parallel to or offshoots to (and you can tell this from the first number, I just don't have that part memorize) of I-64.

      @everyone else
      I agree this map seems inaccurate, but I admit, having been on this planet less than 40 years, I don't know what the original system looked like. That said, here in Grand Rapids, there is no I-65 (it stops in northern Indiana, if memory serves).
    • KevinRWright, on 03/07/2008, -1/+4Wait...Wait...Wait...You're telling me there is stuff between the east and west coasts?
    • shortyjacobs, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Obviously 94 originally stopped in Chicago. The trunk from Chicago through Milwaukee through Madison, (then meeting up with 90 for a while), then through to MSP was obviously added later.

      It's called time. I suggest you investigate the dimension.
    • user500, on 03/08/2008, -0/+157 & are missing entirely too
  • shadowblade989, on 03/07/2008, -0/+108That's ridiculously useful. Someone should make an updated version.
  • Pradko, on 03/07/2008, -6/+0mmm cheez-its
  • busby2, on 03/07/2008, -1/+62Time to install Sim City and put this chart to good use.
  • mydigga, on 03/07/2008, -3/+2Looks just like my kids jungle gym...
    • UtopiaInTheSky, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2Is this what happens when you get old and have kids? Everything reminds you of childish things?
  • soupdawg30, on 03/07/2008, -11/+4I will be using good ole I-10 this weekend.
  • shazbotben, on 03/07/2008, -1/+19Glad to see I'm not the only one who is actually somewhat intrigued by the Interstate System.
  • TobiasParker, on 03/07/2008, -9/+93Pathetic Humans! Now that the secrets of your interstate system have been exposed I WILL DESTROY YOU!!
    • popfrogs, on 03/07/2008, -1/+27Not if the interstate system destroys you first! Go failing underfunded infrastructure!
    • ipfree, on 03/07/2008, -4/+2Could you not destroy me. I will be good I promise.
      • TobiasParker, on 03/07/2008, -2/+4Even hideous things can be sweet on the inside, i will spare you puny human, but first. I WILL DESTROY YOU!!
        • sarixe, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2for those wondering how this is possible: the destruction, hideous, has a sweet inside, the sparing. after ipfree gets destroyed, he will get to the awesome sweet inside and be spared. no pain, no gain.
        • TobiasParker, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3Earthlings do not yet know the meaning of suffering.
          • vuke69, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2True, but is is still theoretically possible for Hillary to get the nomination, so suffering may be just around the corner.
          • TobiasParker, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2Morbo congratulates our gargantuan cyborg president. May death come quickly to her enemies.
    • tlingalut, on 03/07/2008, -5/+3I, for one, welcome our new Omicronian overlords.
    • LoveWidescreen, on 03/07/2008, -1/+5I'm just going to make it easy and blow up the earth. It obstructs my view of Venus.
      • TobiasParker, on 03/07/2008, -2/+2Fail for lack of cosmology knowledge.
      • LoveWidescreen, on 03/08/2008, -0/+1ENORMOUS, fu*king FAIL on you for not understanding a classic Looney Tunes line!!
    • Atmandk, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2your Chicago are belong to . . . ahh, ***** it.
  • sullyz0r, on 03/07/2008, -2/+3Man, that was way cooler than I expected it to be. New version with updates?
  • zymase13, on 03/07/2008, -2/+8Lookit all those takeoff/landing strips for cold war bombers!
    • hoovcluck, on 03/07/2008, -2/+3Yeah that is pretty interesting, I can't remember the specifics on the frequency for the rest of the country but I do know a section of the interstate where I used to live (bozeman, mt) has been reinforced and widened to accommodate large cargo planes.
    • Nothlit, on 03/07/2008, -0/+6It's all an urban legend: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/faq.htm#questio ...
      • Nigran, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2Yeah, however other countries, for example Sweden, has a whole system of road bases built for fighter aircraft such as the Saab Draken, Viggen and Gripen. During the cold war, the plan was that after a Soviet attack/invasion (the russkies WOULD come, the question was only when) the Swedish royal air force would quickly dispense it's forces on the road bases, making it hard to wipe out the whole air force in a couple of bombing runs. This is why Swedish fighters are built to start and land on short distances, for example, the Viggen can operate on runways as short as 500 meters.
    • meteors, on 03/07/2008, -4/+1Every five miles must have one mile of straightaway. And, it's not all that uncommon for light planes to land on the highway.
      • Nothlit, on 03/07/2008, -0/+7The five-mile rule is a myth. However, you are correct that planes do sometimes make emergency landings on highways.
  • martyFREEDOM, on 03/07/2008, -4/+6That is cool and all, except 65 terminates in Gary, Indiana, which means it does not reach Chicago or anything north of it.
    • Serinus, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2It does connect in a way. The map just doesn't show the details. 65 to 94 to 196 gets you to Grand Rapids as the diagram claims.

      I don't think it's meant to be 100% accurate, but to be more of an overview.
  • muffinmonk, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Yeah, without those US highways/State highways, this seems pretty simple to me.
  • stackolee, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3My favorite remnant of the Eisenhower administration. Baltimore to Chicago in seven hours instead of seventeen...
    • Nothlit, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1You drive 100 MPH?
    • Bensch, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1...and the last nail in the coffin of a future-proof transportation system. Ever wonder why Amtrak does so poorly? You can't compete with the hundreds of billions we spend on this.
  • mooseontheloose, on 03/07/2008, -3/+5Apparently the section of I-90 that goes to Buffalo just disappeared off the map
  • nizzy1115, on 03/07/2008, -4/+5I would like to add that i drive the 90, 100 miles a day and i hate traffic.
    I also hate people who must drive 55 mph in the left lane. GTFO!
    • sarixe, on 03/07/2008, -1/+3you drive and drive, but you get absolutely nowhere.
      • vuke69, on 03/07/2008, -1/+7You drive and drive, and at the end of the day, you are right back where you started.
    • iammustangman, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4I drove from Chicago to Boston in a day, almost the whole way on the 90.
      I got a ticket in Ohio for 85 in a 65. 115$ or something. Cheapest speeding ticket ever.
    • Whackly, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2Whad'ya live in Rockford? If so the commute is the least of your problems.
    • UtopiaInTheSky, on 03/07/2008, -1/+4When I drive, I actually yell "GTFO!" to slow drivers.
    • psykiv, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Have you considered, I don't know. Moving a little closer to work or finding another job closer to home? I figure 100miles / 20mpg = 5g. 5g x $3.50/g = $17.50. $17.50 x 20 days a month = $350/mo in gas, just going to from work.

      Then again, my dad spends $100/DAY (he's not a trucker, thats just his commute) in gas. I live in miami and his job has him travelling anywhere from Melbourne to Key West . Melbourne is about 180 miles north and keywest is about 160 miles south, but at least the company pays for his gas and car. He puts a good 50,000 miles a year on his company car.
      • ColorBlind, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1My mom did just that.
        Was driving an hour to and from work. She moved 45 minutes closer to work and can now afford a better home.
  • thephuckphase, on 03/07/2008, -14/+1wow, einstien discovered how to split atoms, but couldnt figure out how to split a woman's legs.
    • nizzy1115, on 03/07/2008, -0/+11Esenhower you idiot.
    • Gerz1219, on 03/07/2008, -0/+10Einstein had a wife, who he *****.
      • MacEnvy, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3And according to some reports, a couple more on the side.
      • vuke69, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3And a mistress, who became his wife, and by the way, was his cousin.
      • fwertz, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1WHOA SWEET, A "40 Year Old Virgin" JOKE, IN CONTEXT!

      • UtopiaInTheSky, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Whom?
  • budalla, on 03/07/2008, -7/+2Aw, left out the Houston to Galveston I-45 leg and it's historic, too. (see below)

    Old joke:
    What was the first leg of the Interstate system started and when was it finished?
    ****
    ****
    I-45 from Houston to Galveston and it's never been finished!
    • MacEnvy, on 03/07/2008, -0/+6Apparently, localized humor will get you nowhere on the Internet.
    • jonatne, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Actually pretty funny if you've ever been there.
  • aaron4, on 03/07/2008, -2/+73"it's a series of tubes"
    • TRENT310, on 03/07/2008, -0/+11With big trucks going around in them?
    • Nothlit, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4And sometimes, if you send someone an internet on Monday, it might not arrive until Friday!
  • underthebus, on 03/07/2008, -2/+4Where's 83? Marlo Stanfield's gonna be pissed. . .
  • tehAleksandrRox, on 03/07/2008, -2/+6We can't stop here!
    • malman4, on 03/07/2008, -0/+0We didn't. Not by a long shot.
    • masterdieff, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1"We were somewhere near Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold."
    • Christ0s, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3This is bat country
    • xieodeluxed, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1^ win
  • douglasfactors, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Why isn't there an I-50 or I-60?
    • yacks, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2There's an Interstate 60.. you'll find it on the unbeaten path if you follow the signs :) btw You should watch that movie sometime. (Interstate 60) from the same person who brought you Back to the Future.
      • vuke69, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3"...from the same person who brought you Back to the Future."

        Doc Brown?
    • sexybobo, on 03/07/2008, -2/+1*****
    • KamelJockey, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4Because the route of Interstate 50 would overlap with US Route 60 and US Route 50. The same is true for an Interstate 60. The numbering scheme of the Interstates was designed to be opposite that of US Routes, so you get higher numbers going north to south. The middle of the USA from east to west is where you would have overlap.
      • Nothlit, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1To further clarify, it's not just that there would be overlap but because it would be confusing to have a US-50 and an I-50 so close to each other. The idea is that there should never be a US highway and an Interstate highway with the same number in the same state. I think this is what you meant, but it wasn't obvious from what you wrote.
        • KamelJockey, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Unfortunately a few states are able to get away with numbering violations. North Carolina decided to "make" US Routes 73 and 74 into "Interstates 73/74" even though the numbering rules do not allow for this.
      • JohnChapin, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3The numbering system reads like a military map. Thanks in no small part to Eisenhower I'm sure. Everything starts low numbers in the lower left hand corner and gets bigger from there. That's also why exits will be numbered 0 to the west on the west to east routes and 0 at the southern border of states on a north to south interstate. Not all states were abiding to that rule from the start. Georgia used to have a non conforming exit numbering scheme that also didn't follow mile markers like it should have. They had sequential exit numbers. 1,2,3... Then someone figured out... Hey that's stupid, we can't add any more exits. Where as if you went by mile marker it was easier to say exit 91a... See, you don't have to struggle to find an integer between 1 and 2.
  • tomato3017, on 03/07/2008, -4/+2I-94 and I-69 don't come together in Battle Creek, MI they come together in Marshall which is about 30 mi from Battle Creek.
    • mllind, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Battle Creek has given us Pop Tarts and Tang. What has Marshall done for anybody? I don't care if it was going to be the capital, nobody really cares about Marshall.
    • templethegoof, on 03/07/2008, -0/+0If you wanna get technical, I-94 and I-69 come together in Port Huron Township as well.
    • cromagnan, on 03/07/2008, -0/+0It's SIMPLIFIED - Can't show every city.
  • WSPanic201, on 03/07/2008, -3/+39It musta been nice for our government to actually have money and spend it on improving our own country instead of borrowing from China to destroy another.
  • Emachine, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2I drive down to the states a few times a year, so this is immensely useful. Printing this out, and sticking it in my glove box..
    • lethulian, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2Maybe. Except it's definitely missing a few. 74 and 26, that I've seen thus far.
    • Nothlit, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3Or, you know, buy a $5 road atlas.
    • ogre2112, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2oops (deleted)
  • Pyehole, on 03/07/2008, -1/+16I love digg links like that. Maps somehow appeal to the way my brain functions. Before I hit puberty and replaced them with posters of hot women, I had a mixture of maps hanging on my walls. They would have been anything from the World of Greyhawk, to my state (Washington), the states around it and whatever I found that appealed to me in National Geographic. These days I just have a save folder for jpegs.
    • atticus8, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3Dugg for someone else feeling a slight twinge of nostalgia for the days before dreaming of girls and their girlie bits took up every last one of my brain cycles.... Nowadays, if a map doesn't tell me where the girls hang out, I'm confused about it's usefulness.
  • DietCoke597, on 03/07/2008, -4/+9Whoever made this map has some kind of anti-Wisconsin hatred. The entire interstate system in Wisconsin is missing...Madison and Milwaukee are both pretty major interstate highway junctions.
    • kashk5, on 03/07/2008, -1/+18It's because nobody cares about Wisconsin
      • fwertz, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2"anti-Wisconsin hatred". So people hate on haters of Wisconsin? What? Cheese? Fail.
      • UtopiaInTheSky, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2I love how this guy says no one likes Wisconsin, and gets dugg up.
        Maybe it's true, even Americans don't like that state. Perhaps New Jersey is worse?
    • Whackly, on 03/07/2008, -0/+6It's a fact. Hippies and Bratwurst don't show up on maps. Just like vampires don't show in a mirror.
    • aywwts4, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3That and 90 (which is listed on the map) actually goes through Madison it has a big open space there, and yet.. Albert Lea MN pop:18356 gets a mention.
    • Trevour, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3No, Wisconsin is one long boredom-fest of a drive, so this map is actually very accurate.
      • brsmnky007, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3Clearly you haven't driven west of Lincoln, NE on I-80. It would totally change your definition of "long boredom-fest."
  • mistahroth, on 03/07/2008, -3/+10Is it just me or is Buffalo way too far West on that map?
    • DietCoke597, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4slightly.
    • horscategorie, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3You just THOUGHT 90 went through Buffalo. How wrong you were, it just goes to Syracuse.
    • grahamgrafx, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2there a Buffalo, NY on the 90 and a Buffalo, Wisconsin on 94/25
      • mistahroth, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Ah I didn't know that haha, I'm in Toronto so I really only know one Buffalo in the US.
    • solarweasel, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1buffalo, billings ... same thing
  • hmac, on 03/07/2008, -6/+1Buried as inaccurate; I-24 also converges in Nashville, continues up to St. Louis, and down to Chattanooga.
  • RawrAtYoo, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2IT ALL MAKES SENSE!!!
  • wayhomer, on 03/07/2008, -0/+7I knew I shoulda tooke that left toin in Albuquerque
    • VikingoTJ, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3Pismo Beach, All the clams you can eat!
  • Super6, on 03/07/2008, -3/+2They left Orlando out of I-4. Am I to believe that Lake City, FL is more important? I think not.
    • DevilInPgh, on 03/07/2008, -1/+3Lake City is where I-75 and I-10 intersect.
    • UtopiaInTheSky, on 03/07/2008, -0/+6That's because traffic is so bad on I-4 Orlando, there's no point in driving on it.
  • RooDoG, on 03/07/2008, -1/+11Ohio has a cluster-***** of interstates
    • MikeEric, on 03/07/2008, -0/+0I agree. I think I should suggest a changing of our state motto to "Ohio: The Cluster-***** State"

      Personally... I'd be more proud to live here if it went through.
  • CaviMike, on 03/07/2008, -1/+4So the 90 goes from NY to Seattle. Never knew that.
    • witcompe, on 03/07/2008, -0/+3If you look closer, you will see that it actually goes from BOSTON to Seattle. It makes a turn north when it splits from I-80.
    • solarweasel, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1drove it last summer actually... from north jersey to seattle... you may as well forget the part from the pa/oh border until the rocky mountains... nothing to see there
  • PurpleDingo, on 03/07/2008, -3/+511 highways into Canada and 3 into Mexico. Ill remember that when McCain gets elected.
  • micahned, on 03/07/2008, -1/+5One of the few posts lately that is truly digg-worthy
  • sClubDevin, on 03/07/2008, -3/+1I ***** love 95. when my band tours this summer its going to make life easy.
    • uppedbyhiggins, on 03/07/2008, -0/+2After you travel through Mass on 95 tell me how awesome it is.
    • xxpor, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Or after you try to drive on 95 in NJ. Oh wait, you can't without going on 295 or US 1 or 195. Thank you Hopewell/Princeton.
  • tcpip4lyfe, on 03/07/2008, -1/+12What?! How come (insert interstate close to me) isn't on there!?
  • PadeOne, on 03/07/2008, -1/+4All the interstates going cross country east to west are in even numbers the numbers increase from south to north (interstate 10 fursthest south I90 furthest north). All the interstates going north to south are odd numbers, the numbers increasing going from west to east (I95 furthest east, I5 furthest west). Confused? look again...
    • Nothlit, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1I don't see how anyone could really be confused by that. It's quite logical and obvious to anyone who's ever traveled long distances on the interstate system.
    • Christ0s, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1if thats the case why is I-99 west of I-95
  • ClassicResort, on 03/07/2008, -0/+4What the ***** happened to Buffalo man? We're on the wrong corner of the map...
  • lethulian, on 03/07/2008, -3/+1They forgot 74, from Cincinnati to Indianapolis
    • hkfczrqj, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1It's a SIMPLIFIED map. It's missing a lot.

      Oh, and I-74 ends in the Quad Cities area, in the IL-IA border.
    • Nothlit, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1I don't think it's supposed to be a 100% comprehensive map.
  • fwertz, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1I'LL TAKE "BILLINGS" FOR 400!
  • ElDogFTB, on 03/07/2008, -2/+2Wow, Wilkes-Barre is even on there.
  • jackspade, on 03/07/2008, -6/+30Anyone else thinks it sad we have to look to a system designed 50+ years ago to feel a sense of pride in what America is able to accomplish.
    • mattmoto, on 03/07/2008, -1/+4Just had to bring politics into this... didn't you?
    • Bensch, on 03/07/2008, -1/+2Pride that we tanked our future transportation choices by going monomodal?
      • turkeyssr, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1How do you figure? Trains were far more prevalent then versus today. Yet another system killed by union stupidity.
  • ledsic, on 03/07/2008, -3/+0GO YATES! I've known this guy for years and his art is fantastic! Support local art and check out his website! chrisyates.net
  • phqu88, on 03/07/2008, -1/+1What about i-49? I-49 and i-10 cross in lafayette LA. How do i know? I drive under i-10 everyday for work on i-49 which turns into evangeline thruway then i-90 south soooo...i ask again...wheres i-49?!?!?!
    • Nothlit, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1It's not supposed to be a fully comprehensive map.
    • breckinshire, on 03/07/2008, -0/+1Or I-12. For the love of all that is holy, this map has forsaken I-12!
  • bensone1, on 03/07/2008, -2/+5ron paul can fix this
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