r/highways • • Apr 08 '21

You could call Interstate 5 the "BC-to-BC Highway".

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It starts in the south on the border with Baja California, and ends in the north on the border with British Columbia.


r/highways • • Apr 07 '23

United States highway numbering grid, visualized.

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There are two systems of highways that crisscross the United States: the US Highways (a.k.a. US Routes) with white shields, est. 1926; and the Interstates with blue shields, which are all freeways, est. 1956.

In both systems, east-west routes have even numbers and north-south routes have odd numbers. For US Highways, even route numbers increase from north to south, and odd numbers from east to west. For Interstates, the order is reversed.

As a consequence of the two numbering grids, if you mark the places where two highways meet, and one is even and the other odd, and their numbers are in the same decade, two patterns emerge. If the two highways are of the same system, the points fall along a rough path from southwest to northeast, and if they are one of each, the points fall from northwest to southeast.


r/highways • • Mar 18 '23

These designers are literally magic

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r/highways • • Feb 25 '23

an Interstate slowdown

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r/highways • • Nov 06 '22

Does anyone know the origin of this photo? My interest was piqued at this image; Does anyone have a lead to point my search in the right direction?

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r/highways • • Jun 30 '22

Definitive Tier List of State Highway Markers

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r/highways • • Jun 27 '22

Have a nice day!

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r/highways • • Feb 17 '22

Autostrade in Italia / Highways in Italy

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r/highways • • Jul 29 '21

(Not My Photo) Do you think this should be the shield for the Iowa Highways?

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r/highways • • Nov 20 '21

Anaconda crossing a highway

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r/highways • • Feb 12 '21

How highways make traffic worse

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r/highways • • Nov 24 '24

Driving the Long Island Expressway in New York suburbs

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r/highways • • Feb 04 '23

Anyone know why there is a strip of concrete pathing down the middle of two interstate highways?

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r/highways • • Oct 27 '22

Highway Photologs - Highway departments all around the country had "photolog" programs, some dating back as early as 1961. Each year, specially tricked out vans would drive each mile of state road snapping photos to document the status of roadways. Here's some footage from Connecticut in 1985. [OC]

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r/highways • • Sep 08 '22

Sign Questions

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r/highways • • Sep 07 '22

Does anyone know why this elevated roadway was built off center like this?

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r/highways • • Mar 14 '23

Canadian highway shield Tier List

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(excluding Trans-Canada Highways)


r/highways • • Dec 25 '22

Highway 401

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If you're driving on highway 401 (or any highway really) after the blizzard. PLEASE, please, PLEASE CLEAN THE SNOW OFF YOUR VEHICLE.


r/highways • • Nov 05 '22

In this image, why is NC-160 highlighted by Google, yet NC-1785 was not? Or is 1785 not a highway? Thanks

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r/highways • • Jul 08 '22

Concrete slabs installed in the road after pavement was recently milled and paved within weeks. Why did they do this? It was fresh pavement, but now they have made cutouts in the new pavement to place concrete slabs in. Why? The highway is now more bumpy than it was before. This is in CT on I-691.

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r/highways • • Mar 16 '22

Jamaica to name a highway after singer Harry Belafonte – Caribbean Life

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r/highways • • Feb 18 '22

I tried making my own highway system in Texas because Im bored of the current one, went a little mad in the end, anyway it has all the basic systems such as state highways, Farm to Market highways, Interstates, US Highways.

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r/highways • • Aug 19 '21

Driving on Croatian Highway

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhR1DJ4uL7E

In this video you can see the whole Trip from Zadar to Zagreb, Croatia on the Highway through the Mountain ''Velebit''.

You will also see multiple tunnels like Sveti Rok and Mala Kapela.

I was driving in the early Morning so you will see the Sunrise aswell...

The most intriguing thing in the video was the Temperature before and after the Tunnel ''Sveti Rok''. Before the Tunnel the Temperature was 27°C and after the Tunnel it was only 10°C, cuz it was on the other side of the Mountain.


r/highways • • Jul 24 '21

When I was on vac met a couple who live in Norway today sent me this pic. This is Atlantic Highway In Norway. I would love to take a ride on it! Would you?

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r/highways • • Dec 28 '20

Night view of expressway || Expressway || Mawa to Dhaka expressway || Ba...

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