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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Brendan
<pit.hokie@a...> wrote:
> Thanx for the recognition, Michael. I'm not a frequent poster but
I'm
> always glad to enrich the minds of my fellow tripointers.
yes bravo thats the point
not to clutter but to enrich
we should cast that in latin & hang it over our door
> To your question re: I-66, it does indeed enter D.C. From
William
> Yurasko's D.C. Highways page at
http://www.yurasko.net/wfy/beltway/dc.html:
> "Enters with US 50 via the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, then
heads N-S past
> the Kennedy Center, the E Street Expressway, and Watergate.
Ends at the US
> 29 Whitehurst Freeway/K Street interchange. Was supposed to
continue to
> I-95, but both plans were cancelled. One plan called for an
underground
> tunnel under K Street." Here's a shield to validate:
> http://www.interstate-guide.com/ishields/thb/i-066_dc.jpg
> The shortest signed Interstate (some are unsigned routes
denoted only
> legislatively) is I-375 in downtown Detroit, at 1.06 miles. The
shortest
> unsigned is I-878 in New York near JFK airport (0.7 miles).
> As far as the shortest 2di segment in one state with only one
end in that
> state, I-66 is the winner at 1.11 miles.
wonderful wonderful
great analysis
& we have lots of asterisks to give
so technical is fine too
in fact i am not sure what gets the prize & what gets the asterisk
If you want to get technical (as
> D.C. is not a state, but a district), the western I-76 (there are
two!) in
> Nebraska is 2.48 miles long.
>
> Brendan
>
> At 10:56 PM 6/9/2003, you wrote:
> >yes great call brendan
> >& i think dc certainly beats greenwich ct
> >as interstate highway transit dwarf
> >thanx to woodrow wilson bridge
> >regardless of any interstate dead end dwarf claim dc may or
may not also
> >have for interstate 66
> >& how wonderful it would be if true
> >for this nonstate to sweep both interstate categories
> >
> >also uncannily you are once again in eyeshot if not slingshot
range of yet
> >another tripoint
> >so in honor of this your & our first multiple stones throw
achievement on a
> >single nontripointing topic
> >heres a pic of jc sitting on the nearby dcmdvas federative
tripoint class b
> >exactly as shown in your latest map swatch
> >
> >as she keeps the canoe from capsizing in the multiple
motorboat wakes
> >i align the east face of the drawbridge tower ahead
> >with monument 9 at jones point behind
> >& the pierhead line at left
> >& snap the shutter
> >
> >as your map shows
> >the tower & everything to the left of it in this pic is the winning
segment
> >in dc
> >
> >so multicongrats for this remarkable feat & i am glad i could
document &
> >salute it
> >
> >also do you know if there is any way to also verify whether
interstate 66
> >ever really reaches dc
> >& if so whether it wins in its category