bin Laden is Alive - Adam

First off as I'm watching the NBA play offs I can't help but wonder if Phil is going to be able to pull another title off the guy already has an Adam's Dozen of rings as is. Second off if you aren't a follower of the blog on the right hand side of the page please join up we'd like to get a better idea of how many people actually read our blog and we know it's around the 100k mark.

Have you ever been driving down the road and noticed how certain roads are certain numbers and think to yourself “hmm why did they pick 270 for the name of this road I keep going in circles on?” well after about the 3rd lap I too thought the same thing.

One- and two-digit highways are national routes:
Odd numbered routes run north-south, and higher numbers are farther east.
Even numbered routes run east-west, and higher numbers are farther north.

Three-digit highways, or Auxiliary Interstate Highways, run only within a single city.
An odd first digit signifies a spur route, which may begin at a large highway and terminate at a city center.
An even first digit signifies a loop route around a city or a bypass through a city.
I-270 travels the perimeter of Columbus.
I-670 serves as a bypass of downtown Columbus.
The last two digits signify the highway's origin.
I-670 in Ohio leaves I-70 to go into Columbus.
Sometimes, a three-digit highway branches off another three-digit highway; this is called a tertiary spur route of a two-digit highway. Tertiary spurs do not meet their parent highways, but are associated with them via the three-digit highways they do meet.


After learning all of this I realized this may be the dumbest possible way to name the interstates. Alright the one and two digit highways aren't that stupid but the three digit ones are for sure. So 70 runs east-west obviously because it is an even numbered road and because it seriously does (been there done that) but then 270 and 670 loop/bypass it...so which one loops and which one bypasses? We don't know because no one said all 200's loop and all 600's bypass...

Take Toledo for instance you hop of 475 ok so I'm either loopin or cutting through and I'm somehow near 75...that's all I know? Really? And where did the 400 come from? Worthless!

Plus does anyone even need to know this information anymore? I guarantee every person reading this is thinking “oh I always wondered what the road numbers meant” and still others are thinking “I still don't know what the road numbers mean” but it doesn't matter which of the two you fall into everyone eventually just says “ehh I just use my GPS” and it is so true we don't need maps and we don't need road signs anymore.

How about we melt all the road signs and the poles that come with them into the precious metal that they are and sell it to get out of national/state debt? GPS' also tell you what the speed limit is so that's more signs to melt down! And while we are at it can we melt down all those worthless telephone lines? Fiber optic is cheaper and better...

wow look out Trump someone else has ideas churning for this country.