Subject: shortest interstate transit was Re: Hancok, MD
Date: Jun 09, 2003 @ 20:13
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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fantastic
thanx
any of those days are fine with me
& i would gladly defer first choice of them all to arif
arif are you listening

&or secondarily to any others interested
others are you there too

maybe i could invite the creator of the border too rich castagna
no chestnut

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Asher Samuels
<asher972@y...> wrote:
> I'll be in New York June 22nd to July 2nd. Saturday the 28th is
out, but any
> other day is good for me.
> --- acroorca2002 <orc@o...> wrote:
> > well this flash dash of interstate 684 across connecticut may
be
> > the shortest such interstate highway interstate transit in
america
> >
> > & for the first decades of its existence
> > when i was practically living on it
> > it performed this flash without so much as a raincoat
> >
> > not even an interstate route indicator shield saying
connecticut
> > rather than new york in small print above the number 684
> >
> > & certainly no welcome to connecticut mat
> > nor welcome back to new york
> > in either direction
> >
> > i believe the reason for all these omissions was that
greenwich
> > the connecticut town involved
> > is quiet money
> >
> > but anyway i commonly amazed & amused fellow travelers
thru it
> > by swearing we were in connecticut during that passage
> > when all their believing & seeing flatly denied this
> > or at least couldnt support it
> >
> > i even won a few wagers over it too
> >
> >
> > i believe there may be shorter interstate dead ends
> > such as possibly interstate 66 in dc
> > but dont know of any shorter state crossings
> >
> >
> > & which reminds me
> > if you &or arif &or anyone else would still like to do the
pchcjbe
> > aka petit central hudson central june border exhilaration
> > with the shortest interstate line in america & its official
blueprint
> > i am still able & willing
> > except monday june 16
> > so please do proceed if & when ready
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Asher Samuels
> > <asher972@y...> wrote:
> > > Gee, and I used to think that I-684's quick trip into
Connecticut
> > was special.
> > >
> > >
> >
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4550217&e=60757
> > 8&s=50
> > >
> > > Asher Samuels
> > > asher972@y...
> > > --- Brendan <pit.hokie@a...> wrote:
> > > > Great find, Michael! Although further viewing leads me to
> > believe that
> > > > this road remains in New Mexico the whole time.
> > > > Not to get too off-topic, but US 340, which runs through
> > Virginia, into
> > > > West Virginia and then back into Virginia for only several
> > hundred feet is
> > > > thought to be the shortest. This location is near the
> > MD/VA/WV tripoint.
> > > >
> > >
> >
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=39.32360922847994&lo
> > n=-77.706354276978&s=25&symshow=n
> > > >
> > > > Also up for consideration is US 161 in the Four Corners
area
> > (NM/CO/AZ/UT
> > > > quadpoint).
> > > >
> > >
> >
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=36.996859594201005&l
> > on=-109.03193193499461&s=25&symshow=n
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >for the very shortest such
> > > > >consider
> > > >
> > >
> >
><http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=13&n=4041216&e=675
> >
16>http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=13&n=4041216&e=67
> > 516
> > > > >8&s=25
> > > > >at the northwest corner of the texas panhandle
> > > > >where both rumor & fence lines indicate texas gets
barely
> > nipped
> > > > >by the eastbound lane
> > > > >& not at all by the westbound lane
> > > > >of us56&64
> > > > >
> > > > >depending on which side of the vehicle one is sitting in
> > > > >the travel distance might be measured in inches rather
than
> > feet
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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