From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!houxi!deimos!ariel!rra Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: Interstate Highway numbering - (nf) Article-I.D.: ariel.115 Posted: Mon Sep 27 16:42:09 1982 Received: Thu Sep 30 09:11:14 1982 References: harpo.1064 whuxk.118 One aspect of the Interstate Highway numbering system not yet mentioned - In general, the numbers are (closely) the complement with respect to 100 or 110 of the US numbers used before the Interstate numbering system was founded back in Eisenhowers time. In the older system the numbers increased from north to south and east to west. So 40 was replaced by 70, 22 by 78, 1 by 95, 11 by 81 - The DoT had to do this to show the public that athey were realy' putting in new highways, and the Federal realy' putting in new highways, and the Federal Government supplied 90% of the funds. More important than the numbers is the lack of adequate maintenance of these "truck" highways. You can be sure that any of the roads put in early in the program will be in poor to very poor shape by now. and the newer roads will get poorer quickly. Richard Richard Anderson ariel!rra