Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

Nik Taylor scripsit:
> Dan Seriff wrote:
> > AFAIK, the only interstate that isn't is I-66, running from I-81 to just
> > this side of DC, never leaving the state of Virginia.
>
> There's quite a few Interstates that simply circle cities, like the one
> around Atlanta, don't remember the number.  Also, there are Interstates
> in Hawai'i.  :-)  I was once on I-666, which does not leave the state of
> Florida ... Amusingly, once when a friend of mine was on that highway,
> the song on the radio was "Highway to Hell" :-)
3-digit interstates are loops or spurs (originally, loops had an even hundreds
digit, loops an odd one, but that has broken down) and can repeat
from one state to another: there are many I-495s along I-95.

But I-87 I believe does not leave the state of New York.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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