Using the green highlighted roads on the list at List of Interstate Highways - Wikipedia as a reference for this poll, which roads have you used in your travels?
Interesting. All but six. Didn’t realize I’d traveled such a large percentage of main interstates.
Oh, I’ve driven on I-80 too, although it was the I-90/I-80 portion of it.
All of them. Mostly back in my hitch-hiking days.
I-45, I was only on once. All the others, far more than once.
I’ve been the entire route of maybe about half of them, although my last time on I-10, it still had some uncompleted stretches.
Since I80 figures so much into travel around here, it was strange to run around Reno on it, too. Was almost like a deja vu feeling, to see something so familiar so far from home. With 80 being part or nearly all of the trip to college for two of the kids, I’m way too familiar with the part of it through western Illinois and eastern Iowa.
We run up and down I57 all the time, but that one isn’t on your list.
It tickles me a bit that although I90 runs E-W across the country, nearly all of travel on it has been N-S, going to Wisconsin. I’ve always thought that must be the most confusing part of the whole system, where you take 90E or 90W to go north or south. Must be awful for people who aren’t familiar with it.
20, 40, 85, and 95 are almost unavoidable if you’re going to get around in the Carolinas.
I-30 and I-45 are “green” because they end in a 0 and 5, respectively, but I’d scarcely call them “main”. I-45 isn’t even an interstate in the strictest sense; it never leaves Texas. I-30 is less than 400 miles long and connects only Texas and Arkansas.
I-85 near Greensboro is like 90 in Wisconsin, except you take I-85N to go east and I-85S to go west. From Hillsborough to Greensboro (about 35 miles), I-85 N/S and I-40 E/W are the same road.
All but 4 of them, and all 4 of those I have driven in the same major city as, so I might have driven on them without knowing it, just passing by on the loop, but I thought I’d play it safe.
95
over and over and over again. Just got off it on Tuesday. Living in North Carolina with close family and friends in DC, New York and Connecticut, it’s the way to go.
Don’t get off the highway in Maryland. Every time I break this rule I remember why I made it (Maryland has no compunction about a road sign that claims there is a business “at” this exit when in fact you must travel 10 miles on limited access highways to find your McDonalds)
Gas is cheap in New Jersey and attendants pump it for you.
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Um, yeah.
How did you choose the ones in your poll? You left out at least half of them.
I used the ones in green on the list. They are supposedly the “main” ones. I didn’t want to list them all, but I’d be glad to vote in another list if somebody else wants to put it up.
Not Interstate-related, but I felt the same way when I got my first job out of college in Las Cruces. I grew up a block and a half from US 62 in Buffalo, so it was a neat surprise when I encountered the start of the route on the US/Mexico border in downtown El Paso. “Holy shit! It’s Bailey Avenue!”
Has anybody here ever traveled on the entirety of a mainline Interstate, end to end?
Looks like I’ve hit all but six for sure, and there are at least two more that I may have been on (I know I’ve been between Dallas and Fort Worth in my life, but that was 20 years ago, and I have no idea for sure if we took I-20; I’ve also spent time in the Seattle area on multiple occasions, but I have no idea if I was ever on I-90).
ETA: I guess I’ll add that the most complete coverage of any of them I have would be I-5. I’ve been on every portion of it except for the part from Seattle north to the Canadian border, which appears to be 111 miles out of 1,381.
40 and 55 mostly, but I’ve actually been on quite a few of them, especially I-30. When I went to Chicago with my aunt, we took 57 both ways. I remember that the green sign had Memphis as the next destination the whole way, all over 300 miles. Needless to say, there wasn’t much to see.
All of them except I-30. Major metro areas-wise, that only goes through Dallas, right? Dallas is the one major metro area in North America I haven’t been to.
I met a guy from Kansas who was visiting Northern Virginia, and we ended up on US 50 in Fairfax County. It turns out that he lives not too far from US 50 in Kansas.
all but two I-15 and I-25. I failed to click I-5, but now that I think back, I was on I-5 from Seattle North. Most of my travels have been on the east. I just on I-45 for about two miles in Dallas earlier this week, for the first time.
All of them at one time or another. Some for just a bit, some their entire lengths (I-5).