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A special QOD just for fantine

#1 Post by mntetn » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:06 pm

fantine33 wrote:West of the Mississippi kind of got the shaft today, didn't it?
1. Reno NV to Sacramento CA
2. Salt Lake City UT to Las Vegas NV
3. Boise ID to Portland OR
4. Albuquerque NM to El Paso TX
5. San Diego CA to Yuma AZ
6. Denver CO to Green River UT
7. Little Rock AR to Dallas TX
8. Olympia WA to Salem OR
9. Springfield MO to Tulsa OK
10. Spokane WA to Rapid City SD
11. Oklahoma City OK to Wichita KS
12. Barstow CA to Flagstaff AZ
13. Shreveport LA to Abilene TX
14. Umatilla OR to Yakima WA
15. Tucson AZ to Nogales MX

Bonus: Honolulu HI to ... well, just name any 2 Interstates in HI
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#2 Post by fantine33 » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:50 pm

Ha, here is my answer to every highway question.

If I want to go north or south, I take I-25.

If I want to go east or west, I take I-70.

Well, actually if I want to go west, I go north or south first, because there's a bit of a mountain in the way.

If I want to go to Nirvana, I take I-25 to Albuquerque and turn right on Unser Blvd. And keep going until I smell dirty c-notes, stale air and cleaning fluid.
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#3 Post by fantine33 » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:51 pm

Should I have spoilered that?
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#4 Post by MarleysGh0st » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:53 pm

fantine33 wrote:Should I have spoilered that?
Since you were the only one invited to play, I guess not!

The question about interstates in Hawaii is still the best one. :wink:
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Re: A special QOD just for fantine

#5 Post by tanstaafl2 » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:59 pm

mntetn wrote:

Bonus: Honolulu HI to ... well, just name any 2 Interstates in HI
Spoiler
That I could do easily, having driven them all!

H1 or the Lunalilo Freeway runs through Honolulu starting at the Kahala Mall in the east, just below the home of my girlfriends parents, and runs past downtown, the airport and Pearl Harbor almost to the west coast of the island. It is usually bumper to bumper for a good portion of the day during the work week.

I believe the downtown bypass portion of H1 is H-201.

H2 runs to the north from Pearl City to Schofield Barracks in the middle of the island.

H3 is the fun one that runs from town through the tunnel in the Pali to the Marine Base at Kaneohe Bay.



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#6 Post by christie1111 » Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:29 pm

Bonus: Honolulu HI to ... well, just name any 2 Interstates in HI

H1 and H2!

They do not follow the N-S or E-W rules either!
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#7 Post by christie1111 » Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:31 pm

tanstaafl2 wrote:
mntetn wrote:

Bonus: Honolulu HI to ... well, just name any 2 Interstates in HI
Spoiler
That I could do easily, having driven them all!

H1 or the Lunalilo Freeway runs through Honolulu starting at the Kahala Mall in the east, just below the home of my girlfriends parents, and runs past downtown, the airport and Pearl Harbor almost to the west coast of the island. It is usually bumper to bumper for a good portion of the day during the work week.

christie note - most people are surprised to find out how many lanes there are going each way

I believe the downtown bypass portion of H1 is H-201.

H2 runs to the north from Pearl City to Schofield Barracks in the middle of the island.

H3 is the fun one that runs from town through the tunnel in the Pali to the Marine Base at Kaneohe Bay.

christie note - this is a good tunnel to try holding your breathe along the length, prety tough for most



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#8 Post by silvercamaro » Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:40 pm

I can understand calling H1 and H2 "highways." How can they be called "interstates," however?
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#9 Post by MarleysGh0st » Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:45 pm

silvercamaro wrote:I can understand calling H1 and H2 "highways." How can they be called "interstates," however?
The federal gravy train cannot be denied to a state just because of some little inconvenient facts of geography! :wink:
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#10 Post by tlynn78 » Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:50 pm

can understand calling H1 and H2 "highways." How can they be called "interstates," however
Just because one cannot travel interstatally on H1and H2 right now doesn't mean that will always be the case. Continental drift, and all that, you know..

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#11 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:57 pm

silvercamaro wrote:I can understand calling H1 and H2 "highways." How can they be called "interstates," however?
They're waiting for the bridge to be built.
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#12 Post by tanstaafl2 » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:05 pm

Bob Juch wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:I can understand calling H1 and H2 "highways." How can they be called "interstates," however?
They're waiting for the bridge to be built.
Just so.

Perhaps a legacy of time as well as the fact that are funded from the same program according to wiki. Several highways labeled as interstates today in CONUS do not in fact go "interstate". But they are still part of the interstate system. That would include many auxiliary interstate roads or bypasses such as I-285 around Atlanta or I-240 in good ol' OKC.

But even one that is not a loop or bypass around a city can be entirely in one state as is the case with I-4 in Florida or I-12 in Louisiana (which, having driven it many times, is really a very convenient bypass of New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain).

Other intrastate "interstate" highways include I-8, I-86 and I-97.

The Hawaii "interstates" meet interstate standards. There are also 4 designated "Interstate" highways within Alaska and three in Puerto Rico although unlike Hawaii they are not marked as such and having driven parts of A-1 I can tell you are not divided limited access roads in the traditional sense but rather just regular 2 lane roads that happen to get funded from the same pot of money as the rest of the interstate system.
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Re: A special QOD just for fantine

#13 Post by tanstaafl2 » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:09 pm

christie1111 wrote:
tanstaafl2 wrote:

That I could do easily, having driven them all!

H1 or the Lunalilo Freeway runs through Honolulu starting at the Kahala Mall in the east, just below the home of my girlfriends parents, and runs past downtown, the airport and Pearl Harbor almost to the west coast of the island. It is usually bumper to bumper for a good portion of the day during the work week.

christie note - most people are surprised to find out how many lanes there are going each way
As you well know it is surprising they have crammed as much in there as they have. They had to bulldoze parts of the city as it was to squeeze them in. And they need about twice what they have to handle the current and future traffic at the rate things are going!
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#14 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:53 am

Bob Juch wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:I can understand calling H1 and H2 "highways." How can they be called "interstates," however?
They're waiting for the bridge to be built.
Do Ted Stevens and Don Young have anything to do with that bridge?
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#15 Post by mrkelley23 » Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:09 am

I have a question:

Why does a question that is clearly labelled for one person have thirteen replies?

Wait, make that fourteen.

Never mind.
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#16 Post by peacock2121 » Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:17 am

Bob Juch wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:I can understand calling H1 and H2 "highways." How can they be called "interstates," however?
They're waiting for the bridge to be built.
Where is Mr Stevens when Hawaii needs him?

Those two states should stick together.
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#17 Post by peacock2121 » Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:18 am

mrkelley23 wrote:I have a question:

Why does a question that is clearly labelled for one person have thirteen replies?

Wait, make that fourteen.

Never mind.
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