Eisenhower Interstates I've Driven/Ridden
Submitted by evildonut on Thu, 09/09/2004 - 03:41
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- I-5 San Diego to San Francisco
- I-105 to LAX
- I-405 Los Angeles
- I-605 Los Angeles
- I-10 Santa Monica to Florida
- I-710 Los Angeles
- I-210 Los Angeles
- I-410 San Antonio
- I-610 Houston
- I-15 outside Los Angeles to Las Vegas
- I-27 Lubbock to Amarillo (whee!)
- I-30 Dallas to Little Rock
- I-35/35E Dallas to Kansas
- I-35 San Antonio
- I-40 Raleigh to Asheville, NC
- I-44 OKC to Tulsa
- I-45 Galveston to Dallas
- I-55 through Mississippi
- I-64 for about 2 miles in Virginia as mapquest put us on the interstate in order to continue on US-29
- I-66 DC/Virginia
- I-70 Maryland and Denver to Keystone, CO
- I-270 Maryland
- I-71 Columbus, OH to King's Island theme park
- I-75 Florida
- I-81 in Virginia on my way to Capon Bridge, WV
- I-84 Massachusetts/Connecticut
- I-85 Virgina/NC
- I-90 Massachusetts
- I-91 Connecticut
- I-93 Boston
- I-95 Connecticut to North Carolina
- I-295 DC/Virginia
- I-395 Baltimore
- I-395 DC/Virginia
- I-695 Baltimore
- I-795 Baltimore
- I-495 DC/MD/VA, drove the whole 60 miles one day
- I-97 Baltimore to Annapolis
- H-1 "interstate" in Honolulu, from airport to friends' house, also Honolulu to Waikiki
- H-2 on the way to the North Shore of Oahu
- H-201 on the way to the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial/Pearl Harbor
Author Comments:
apparently, it's the Eisenhower Interstate system.
How did you come to drive this much? Were you a travelling sales person?
nah, I've just lived in several places in the U.S. that have extreme car-based culture. We also used to drive a lot to my granparents' houses in Florida and Kansas. This list is also incomplete as we drove all the way from TX to MN via Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, etc. and I'm sure I've ridden on those interstates. I really didn't think it was all that many, but maybe it is.
Unless you live in a city with good public transportation all of the U.S. is an extreme car-based culture.
yeah, I guess I've lived in a lot of those. but even in Boston, I drove or caught a ride every once in a while even without owning a car. And I drove interstates to get there from Texas, definitely. damn the car companies for buying up trains and putting them out of business in the early 20th century.
The automobile is one of the many technological inventions that strengthens the economy and builds the middle class. It is a great equalizing force. It reduces our dependence on the State.
hmm, that may be, but I don't think that the two can't peacefully coexist (besides the fact that I think that something else would have been able to strengthen our economy in the absence of such explosive growth of the auto driven by the lack of competition and other viable options).
I like living in the city and not driving, but I don't have very many options to not drive. Last night, when the weather was cruddy, I drove 3 miles to teach a class because my only public transport option is a bus that is slow and that doesn't really travel a very convenient route. In good weather, I'd take my bike - also not dependent on the state as well as cheap, good for my health, and good for the environment, as well as just about as quick as driving 3 miles in the city. But not without its own risks to life and limb due to our car culture. I personally just don't like wasting the time driving - I'd rather be reading, or talking to someone on the phone, etc. I hate that there's not a decent, cheap train from Baltimore to DC so I can go see my sister and not have to drive myself. I guess I'd best move to Europe, eh?