# If your closest Interstate is I-24, I-40 or I-65, say so! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 28, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104 "2010-03-28T14:20:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Terra1041](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Terra1041](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terra1041)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/21 "2010-03-28T23:26:49Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > If you live near a section of Interstate that violates the basic rule that the x0 roads go E-W and the x5 roads go N-S, let us know. I have always felt that I-24 is more of a N-S route than an E-W one, (and thus should be an odd numbered road), but it’s a coin flip as to which is closer to the truth. I used to live near Port Huron, whose Interstates are exactly the opposite of this. I-94 goes more or less north-south and I-69 goes almost exactly east-west. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/22 "2010-03-28T23:42:47Z")
I grew up in DFW, but closer to I-30 than I-35 (still close though). My closest is I-35 while at school in Oklahoma. ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/23 "2010-03-29T00:41:56Z")
Yep, I live right off of I-40. 840’s just down the road. I-24 and I-65 are only about 25-30 minutes away! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/24 "2010-03-29T00:48:07Z")
I live nowhere near any Interstate, I-40 is the one I actually know how to get to without leaving the state. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/25 "2010-03-29T01:53:02Z")
I’m about 7 miles from I-40. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/26 "2010-03-29T03:53:10Z")
About 10 miles from I-64. About 15 miles from I-71 About 25 miles from I-65 About 35 miles from I-75 Grew up about 5 miles from I-24. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/27 "2010-03-29T03:57:21Z")
I live 20 miles from I-40 and 30 miles from I-44. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/28 "2010-03-29T04:06:01Z")
> [@C3](#): > > Hi, neighbor! Howdy! ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/29 "2010-03-29T04:44:24Z")
Sitting here, I can hear I-24 if the traffic is busy. The closest exit to my exit is the one for 840. Hey, Electronic Chaos and NicePete, are you in Middle TN? If so, howdy neighbor. The rest of you guys I know. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/30 "2010-03-29T05:04:46Z")
I-10. LA to Jacksonville. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/31 "2010-03-29T05:10:24Z")
I can almost see I-40 from my home. I’m about twenty minutes from I-65 and I-24 and about five minutes from TN840 (aka National Guard Parkway, but the name hasn’t come into common usage yet). A big howdy to the rest of the Middle TN Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/32 "2010-03-29T12:54:21Z")
I’m a country drive from I-96 and US131 US 23 and Dixie Hwy are a couple hours away, funny about the dixie hwy I used to live a few miles from it down in Broward. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/33 "2010-03-29T13:28:10Z")
I just found [All About Interstate Highways](http://www.interstate-guide.com/interstate.html) which appears to be a source for all sorts of Interstate Trivia. One I found especially useful is: > [@](#): > > It is not true that one mile of every five miles of Interstate highway must be straight enough to allow planes to land on it. This is an urban legend. Other major topics covered include: Numbering Themes Interstate Highway System Trivia Interstate Standards Shortest/Longest Routes on System Highest/Lowest Points on System Underground Tunnels Tunnels Underwater Suspension Bridges Cable Stay Bridges Tied Arch Bridges Drawbridges At-Grade Intersections and Traffic Signals Tolled Interstates “First” Interstates Other Trivia And, of course, there’s [Interstate Highway System From Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/34 "2010-03-29T13:43:18Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Do you know much of the history of 840? I finally had the bright idea of looking for the answer to this question. Here’s an answer: [Tennessee State Route 840 From Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-840_(TN)) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/35 "2010-03-29T13:49:13Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I live close to I-495 that intersects with I-95 within 20 minutes. That will take you straight down the East Coast all the way to Florida in two or three days depending on how eager you are to get there. I also live close to the Massachusetts Turnpike which is also I-90. That one makes me a little nervous because it means that I could put the cruise controlon, fall asleep, and wake up in Seattle 2500 miles later. It would appear that your location is special because, according to [Extremes In Length](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System#In_length) > [@](#): > > In length > Longest: 3,020.54 mi (4,861 km): I-90 from Seattle, Washington to Boston, Massachusetts. > Longest (north–south): 1,920 mi (3,090 km): I-95 from the Canadian border to Miami, Florida (not counting the gap in New Jersey to be completed in 2014). ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/36 "2010-03-29T13:59:58Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > The last time we traveled east to the coast it was I-40 to Raleigh and then US-64 to Nags Head. Until just now when I was looking at the NC map I didn’t realize that I-40 goes basically due south from Raleigh to Wilmington (okay, it’s more like SSE, but still). > > If you live near a section of Interstate that violates the basic rule that the x0 roads go E-W and the x5 roads go N-S, let us know. I have always felt that I-24 is more of a N-S route than an E-W one, (and thus should be an odd numbered road), but it’s a coin flip as to which is closer to the truth. I live by a section of I-10 that’s N-S (west side of San Antonio), but the road itself is an east-west road. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/37 "2010-03-29T14:02:01Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > I live a few miles from I-40 , I am also near I-540, I-440, and I-85. Me too! What are you doing Thursday night, me & some of the fellas are thinking about karaoke at High Park 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/38 "2010-03-29T14:14:09Z")
Can’t remember where but I have been on a road where the signs said I was going both north and south at the same time. It was 2 North and South roads that met up and were traveling East and West on the stretch I was on. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/39 "2010-03-29T14:23:33Z")
I-75 is both to the east and west of me. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104/40 "2010-03-29T14:53:59Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > I-75 is both to the east and west of me. Interesting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-closest-interstate-is-i-24-i-40-or-i-65-say-so/534104.md?page=3)