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Are ALL interstates now using mile markers for the exit numbers? It makes a lot of sense, though a restaurant or two may have had to change its name from the old system. The NYS Thruway has not adopted this, I was visiting pals in Syracuse a few months ago and noticed they were still on the old numerical order system. I guess they can do what they want, but I like the mile marker system. | ||
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| SIGforum's Indian Off the Reservation  |
Out here in rural CO, it is essential. Even then......some people can't count  .Mike You can run, but you cannot hide. If you won't stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them. | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
I have found that out west it is pretty universal, but back east it is still being changed over. When Maine renumbered 95 and 295 it screwed me up when I was driving home that first time lol. The first time I noticed mile markers matched exits I was driving from CA to NC. I just hit Nebraska and was like "holy hell!! 400 miles of this???" Lol. | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
I found that it's pretty much the normal on free interstates, but seems to be the exception on toll roads even the interstate ones. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Fortified with Sleestak |
Quite a while ago I was working for a marketing company. They sent me into PA to do some work. Back then VA and WVA were on the mile marker system but unknown to me PA was still on the old system. When I was given directions to get off the Interstate at exit 5 in PA I figured out my time based on mileage. Turns out I ended up about thirty minutes behind schedule. I prefer the mileage system. I have the heart of a lion.......and a lifetime ban from the Toronto Zoo.- Unknown | |||
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| Glorious SPAM! |
It's amazing how many people don't know how the interstate numbering system works. Odd, even, two digit vs. three digit. When you tell them they are like "Oh wow....".  | |||
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| Conveniently located directly above the center of the Earth  |
unsure what the 'old numerical order system' may be; it seems here in the West as far as I can tell, correlate the freeway exit numbers with the actual freeway mileage from the West/South borders, unless I'm mistaken....always a possibility. **************~~~~~~~~~~ "I've been on this rock too long to bother with these liars any more." ~SIGforum advisor~ "When the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change, then change will come."~~sigmonkey | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
Adding a new exit was a problem with the old system too. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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Ditto. Having lived "out here" all my life I just assumed that exit numbering was done the same all across the country. Learn something new every day. | |||
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The northeast is still sequential with the exception of the Maine Turnpike and maybe PA. Also, even using that system, most NY highways are backward (lower numbered in the east/north), at least the few I've traveled. | |||
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| Ammoholic |
I’d swear that the mileage numbering was fairly new in CA, maybe in the last handful of years. The exits were just named for the road they were letting you off on. Of course maybe it’s always been like that and I’ve been oblivious, but I don’t think so... | |||
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| Glorious SPAM! |
As a rule of thumb, (and it's been a while since I navigated with a Rand McNalley), here we go: Two digit routes are major routes spanning states. Odd numbers run north to south (5, 95, etc) even numbers run west to east (10,40, etc) Three digit numbers run by major cities, and if it starts with an even number it goes around, if it starts with an odd number it is a spur going in. A good example is Washington DC. 95 runs right by it, north to south. 495 runs around it, and 395 runs into it. There are exceptions but those are the basics. | |||
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A lot of the Eastern states originally numbered the exits sequentially, irrespective of mileage. The 1st exit traveling from South to North (or East to West) was exit ONE, regardless of how far into the state you were, the next exit was TWO, and so on... When I was traveling through GA in the late eighties, they were still sequential on I85, but changed over shortly thereafter. I'm somewhat surprised everyone hasn't changed over by now. __________________________________ NRA Benefactor I lost all my weapons in a boating, umm, accident. http://www.aufamily.com/forums/ | |||
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| Unflappable Enginerd |
A, B, C, D...  __________________________________ NRA Benefactor I lost all my weapons in a boating, umm, accident. http://www.aufamily.com/forums/ | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Except they aren’t talking about freeway numbering, but exit numbering. There are signs along the interstate showing mileage on that freeway from the state border. These are used to describe exits. “Take I-35 exit 243 north to such and so.” Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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| The Constable |
On the PA Turnpike...you will see an exit sign, Reading, EXIT 45. then underneath, OLD exit 20...or whatever. At least they reference the old number. It's surprising the folks that don't understand how Interstate mile markers work...as well as COMPASS directions. Back in my MHP days, folks would call in an incident and the dispatchers would quiz them on location. because so few actually know east from west. Or north from south. THAT amazed me. | |||
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| Glorious SPAM! |
I understand that, as noted by my post about the Great State Of Maine and how they numbered 95 and 295 exits. From arbitrary numbers to the mile marker system. Call the rest the "fun fact of the day". | |||
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| Help! Help! I'm being repressed!  |
I just do whatever the GPS tells me.  | |||
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NY Thruway, like it's governor, suck. 100% of user tolls should be used to maintain the roadway, plow snow, landscape, pay the workers, etc. Instead a portion is used to subsidize an antiquated barge canal system. Our illustrious governor has named a new, multi billion dollar, bridge over the Hudson River after his governor father; Mario Cuomo. There are currently more than 75,000 signatories on a petition to keep the old name; Tappan Zee Bridge. | |||
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