Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

John Cowan wrote:
>
> Tristan McLeay scripsit:
>
> > What  is the 10 or i-10?
>
> A motorway running close to, but not quite on, the southern boundary of the U.S.
> People who live south of it are the Tasmanians of the U.S. :-)
>
> The prefix "I-" stands for "Interstate", though not all such roads are
> actually interstate.  They were built with federal funding in the 1960s.
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. The only reason it
gets federal funding is because all of the gov't employees in Virginia
use it to get to work. The three digit interstate loop roads aren't
really separate highways, but spurs.

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> John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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