Our highways, they're all wrong. - Page 3

**Rain Man** · 07-09-2007, 06:26 PM

I'm recognizing that if you drive from the east coast to the west coast, or vice versa, on a big road trip, you're destined to spend part of your day driving into the sun. That's just poor planning.

How about this instead? Diagonal highways, going northeast to southwest and southeast to northwest.

Yeah, I know it would be a bummer if you're traveling somewhere like St. Louis to Kansas City, but the net effect would cancel out against thos people who are going from Dallas to Denver. Overall, it's all the same, and you don't have to squint as much.

I think you could make a pretty good highway system with the following major highways:

NE to SW Major Routes

Hwy 1 from Boston to New Orleans
Hwy 2 from Cleveland to Dallas
Hwy 3 from Chicago to Albuquerque
Hwy 4 from Minneapolis to Los Angeles

NW to SE Major Routes

Hwy 5 from San Francisco to San Diego
Hwy 6 from Portland to Houston
Hwy 7 from Seattle to Savannah
Hwy 8 from Milwaukee to Miami

Anyone want to help me get started?

Eleazar · 07-09-2007, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

But that's the whole point! We wouldn't NEED sunglasses or visors!

Man, I spend a fortune on those. Just this past Saturday I left a pair at the bottom of a lake.

We need Rain Man's highway plan before more innocent pairs of sunglasses are inadvertently committed to the deep.

CHENZ A! · 07-09-2007, 10:42 PM

By the time we make this happen, we'll have flying cars, and it'll be irrelevant.

Hydrae · 07-09-2007, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by CHENZ A!

By the time we make this happen, we'll have flying cars, and it'll be irrelevant.

Uh huh, sure. Been there, done that. I ain't buying that line again!

Brock · 07-09-2007, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by CHENZ A!

By the time we make this happen, we'll have flying cars, and it'll be irrelevant.

GM killed it. Bastards.

Discuss Thrower · 07-10-2007, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by CHENZ A!

By the time we make this happen, we'll have flying cars, and it'll be irrelevant.

Let's see what Captain Sisko has to say about that.

I rest my case.

**Smed1065** · 07-10-2007, 06:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

I think Augusta could be a feeder, but I think you'd have to start in a bigger city. I think it would be less efficient to make the Bostonians go out of their way than the Augustans.

If you built that road, it would be pretty busy, I imagine. You might want to make it 12 lanes the whole way, with the fast lane at 200 mph.

Sun East to west is bad........It is on the coast.... Bigger? Like the middle? On the coast is limited? (per size!-LOL)

kepp · 07-10-2007, 06:37 AM

RM...while I appreciate your attempt to improve our nation's infrastructure, I believe you have neglected to take into account the natural change in the earth's tilt. What will our descendants do 10,000 years from now when your highways point, once again, directly into the sun?

**Smed1065** · 07-10-2007, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Brock

GM killed it. Bastards.

Amnorix · 07-10-2007, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

I think Augusta could be a feeder, but I think you'd have to start in a bigger city. I think it would be less efficient to make the Bostonians go out of their way than the Augustans.

If you built that road, it would be pretty busy, I imagine. You might want to make it 12 lanes the whole way, with the fast lane at 200 mph.

I ain't signing on to anything that makes me go to freaking Augusta. You got that right!

Chief Chief · 07-10-2007, 07:36 AM

When your poor li'l ol' eyes can't take any more beatin' from that mean 'n' nasty Mr. Sun, just find you'self a bitty motel to shack up for the dawn/dusk and then hit the ol' road again when ya wakes up.

But, if'n they does decides to reconstruck them highways, I get dibs on being that dude who makes a ton o' money just wearin' a vest and wavin' a sign that says "slow" on one side and "stop" on the other.

**Smed1065** · 07-10-2007, 07:41 AM

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Tallahasse to Des Moines to Bismark

Looks good to me. I might be able to make 2 games instead of one.

Kewl.

07-09-2007, 06:26 PM
Rain Man Seize life. Be an ermine. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $-632449 VARSITY	Our highways, they're all wrong. I'm recognizing that if you drive from the east coast to the west coast, or vice versa, on a big road trip, you're destined to spend part of your day driving into the sun. That's just poor planning. How about this instead? Diagonal highways, going northeast to southwest and southeast to northwest. Yeah, I know it would be a bummer if you're traveling somewhere like St. Louis to Kansas City, but the net effect would cancel out against thos people who are going from Dallas to Denver. Overall, it's all the same, and you don't have to squint as much. I think you could make a pretty good highway system with the following major highways: NE to SW Major Routes Hwy 1 from Boston to New Orleans Hwy 2 from Cleveland to Dallas Hwy 3 from Chicago to Albuquerque Hwy 4 from Minneapolis to Los Angeles NW to SE Major Routes Hwy 5 from San Francisco to San Diego Hwy 6 from Portland to Houston Hwy 7 from Seattle to Savannah Hwy 8 from Milwaukee to Miami Anyone want to help me get started?
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07-09-2007, 10:42 PM	#32
CHENZ A! pimping hoes + clocking a grip Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: KCMO Casino cash: $9977569	By the time we make this happen, we'll have flying cars, and it'll be irrelevant.
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07-10-2007, 06:37 AM	#37
kepp MVP Join Date: Aug 2005 Casino cash: $3479212	RM...while I appreciate your attempt to improve our nation's infrastructure, I believe you have neglected to take into account the natural change in the earth's tilt. What will our descendants do 10,000 years from now when your highways point, once again, directly into the sun?
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07-10-2007, 07:36 AM	#40
Chief Chief Veteran Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Kansas City MO Casino cash: $10004900	When your poor li'l ol' eyes can't take any more beatin' from that mean 'n' nasty Mr. Sun, just find you'self a bitty motel to shack up for the dawn/dusk and then hit the ol' road again when ya wakes up. But, if'n they does decides to reconstruck them highways, I get dibs on being that dude who makes a ton o' money just wearin' a vest and wavin' a sign that says "slow" on one side and "stop" on the other.
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