On Monday 27 December 2004 03:42 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > ObUselessGeographyLesson: East/West numbered high/free-ways in > the US are even numbered. North/South are odd numbered. They are > numbered low-to-high from south-to-north and west-to-east.
Not any more. OR-551 runs north-south and is rather west in the state from what I can tell (it's new enough that I have yet to see a map that reflects its existence, though driving around at 2AM last night seems to put 551 as being a freak of ODOT). > So I-84 is up north somewhere. If he gave an odd numbered Interstate > you could pretty much peg his state if not city by the numbers alone > without once looking at a map. For example I-5 and I-80 would mean > N.California (Sacramento, to be precise) as I-5 is N/S on the west > coast (low numbered) and I-80 is E/W above the middle of the > nation. :) I-80 originally went to Portland, not California. Why we had to change our interstate from I-80 to I-84 and they changed from I-80S to I-80 is beyond me. After all, we were here first, and California's the one who sucks. Not like they've done us any good as long as they've been our neighbors... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/
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