While it’s amusing when it happens (and it happens fairly often), this is just the nature of our wandering roads. Especially in mountainous regions or along rivers, large lakes, etc., roads have to go in wildly varying directions.
The example I’m most familiar with is an approximately eight mile stretch where I-81 and I-77 share the road in southwest Virginia. While the road is generally oriented east-west, while you’re traveling down I-81 South, you’re also on I-77 North, and vice versa.
Same thing here in WA state; we have several places where smaller, more rural roads do doubletime on names and directions.
JonJune 7, 2004
Oh no, giving the Mass Hwy Dept more money is like flushing it down the toilet. Mass Turnpike tolls were only supposed to exist long enough to pay for the initial construction of the highway, but just try traking that money away from Capitol Hill nowadays!
Hah! In Dallas you can travel South on East North-West Highway. Take that!
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While it’s amusing when it happens (and it happens fairly often), this is just the nature of our wandering roads. Especially in mountainous regions or along rivers, large lakes, etc., roads have to go in wildly varying directions.
The example I’m most familiar with is an approximately eight mile stretch where I-81 and I-77 share the road in southwest Virginia. While the road is generally oriented east-west, while you’re traveling down I-81 South, you’re also on I-77 North, and vice versa.
I always get a little chuckle out of it.
Same thing here in WA state; we have several places where smaller, more rural roads do doubletime on names and directions.
Oh no, giving the Mass Hwy Dept more money is like flushing it down the toilet. Mass Turnpike tolls were only supposed to exist long enough to pay for the initial construction of the highway, but just try traking that money away from Capitol Hill nowadays!
Hah! In Dallas you can travel South on East North-West Highway. Take that!