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