11-08-2004 04:32									#61
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all you need to know in the bay area.

101, 280, 880, 80. everything else is irrelevant.

	11-08-2004 04:41									#62
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680 also, and PCH

	11-08-2004 04:59									#63
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but those 4 will get you anywhere you need to go. i miss the bay dearly.

	11-08-2004 09:26									#64
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quote: Originally posted by Brent I've lived in Sacramento since 1989, and have never felt a quake.

What about the World Series Earthquak of 1989?

	11-08-2004 09:28									#65
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i was gonna say that too

	11-08-2004 09:51									#66
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quote: Originally posted by MRT144 all you need to know in the bay area. 101, 280, 880, 80. everything else is irrelevant.

Let me explain why is OK to be older.
When I-680 was built in the early 70s, it ran from I-80 in Vallejo to San Jose. Sometime in the 80s they transfer 680 to run from I-80 in Fairfield to San Jose. Those two intersection are about 10 miles apart. The freeway in Vallejo to Benicia is now 780

Also when 880 was built, it was the Sac bypass on the west side of town. Now we all know that I-880 is the old Nimitz freeways in Oakland to San Jose, and the old 880 of Sac. in now I-80 and the old 80 is now business 80 in Sac.

If you were someone who lived here in the 60 to early 70s and are coming back for a visit, you better look at some maps before you arrive or you might not be at the correct area.

	11-08-2004 09:56									#67
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crap... I had no idea that the buisness 80 was the buisness 80, though the run in at 99 and 50 seems a little off since it's quicker to take the 80 buisness... hmmm, thanks for the local history

	11-08-2004 10:06									#68
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thats an arguement for it being ok to be older?

all im saying is for most people in the bay area, 101, 280, 880, and 80 are the main routes of travel. yes, people take 17, 85, 680, etc, but those are the main thoroughfares

	11-08-2004 10:40									#69
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quote: Originally posted by Japher crap... I had no idea that the buisness 80 was the buisness 80, though the run in at 99 and 50 seems a little off since it's quicker to take the 80 buisness... hmmm, thanks for the local history

From Sac to Canada, US 99 and I-5 are one in the same road. But they did move 99 signs to what ever highway that runs from Sac to Maryville. From Sac to San Diego I-5 runs on the west side of the valley until you pass Bakersfield and then I-5 and old US 99 are the same road to Mexico.

Of couse US 99 is still the highway through the center of the Valley.

Also I-580 in Oakland until just west of Tracy is the old US 50, and you can still take US 50 from Sac to Lake Tahoe and across Nev. Utah and I think in Co.

	11-08-2004 23:12									#70
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highway 17 to santa cruz have u guys ever driven the entire I-5 from San Diego to Seattle?

	11-08-2004 23:36									#71
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quote: u guys ever driven the entire I-5 from San Diego to Seattle?

Not in one shot, but I have driven it from Sac to San Diego on one trip, and from Sac to Seattle, on through to Vancouver on another trip.

17 is crazy, it is a deadly road.

	11-08-2004 23:41									#72
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nah 5 is a deadly road, especially around the grapevine. youve got trucks in the right line going 20 mph up the hill, and cars in the left lane doing 90.

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quote: Originally posted by Big Dave The US highways were built in the Eisenhour Administration (in the 1950's), I'm not sure when the Interstate highways were started. I remember riding on them in the 60's to go on vacation and such.

You've got that backwards, Dave. The US highways were already in existence for quite some time, and in the '50s, the Eisenhower administration began the interstate system (hence the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, or the long version, the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways). Planning for such a system dated back to the late '30s, and the first 40,000 miles or so were selected during Truman's tenure, but it was under Eisenhower that the first funding for the program came through.

Kuciwalker: not necessarily drugs, though I'm sure an acid trip in the eye would be something else.

	12-08-2004 00:32									#74
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quote: Originally posted by Azazel Could someone explain to me the highway marking system in the US? I-15? US95? WTF?

There are three main highway systems in the US. The first and oldest is the Federal US highway system which was created slightly before WW1 but the vast majority of it wasn't built until the 1920's & 1930's. They are marked with a "US" in front of them and they tend to be two lane roads which connect the major cities of the early part of the 20th century. When the US highways enter towns there are stop lights, pedestrian crossings, and things of that nature which cars must stop for.

Next we have the Interstate highway system which was started in the early 1950's and are identified by the "I" in the name. There are no stop lights any where on these roads and they are the freeways which most Americans think of when the word freeway is mentioned. They have on ramps and off ramps plus the speed at which cars travel tends to be higher then on US highways.

Lastly we have state highways which were constructed by the various state governments. Naturally, their make up varies from state to state but just about every state has financied the construction of highways at one time or another. These highways are identified by the two letter state abrievation which the US Postal system uses. In California it is "CA".

BTW in the US all highways/freeways which head in an east or west direction are even numbered while highways/freeways which head north-south are odd numbered.

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quote: Originally posted by Big Dave The US highways were built in the Eisenhour Administration (in the 1950's), I'm not sure when the Interstate highways were started. I remember riding on them in the 60's to go on vacation and such.

You have it backwards.

	12-08-2004 01:20									#76
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i prefer taking 1 down to santa cruz. especially on the afternoons when rush hour is brutal. I also get to stop in half moon bay and eat a burrito from tres amigos. good times.

I drove from San Mateo to Seattle, made it in 12 hours, loved it up around shasta, bout the only interesting thing.

	12-08-2004 01:22									#77
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I once drove from San Diego to Seattle via I5 in 19.5 hours. Stopped only for gas and ate pre packaged junk food so I'd make better time.

	12-08-2004 01:31									#78
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thats the key.

	12-08-2004 01:45									#79
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tres amigos

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have you been to pancho villa? they have hella good food. They have one location on B street in san mateo and one in the city. go try them, now!

	12-08-2004 02:13									#81
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No no no, 110 is deadly especially north of I-10.

When you re trying to get on, you barely can see the traffic behind you and they all are going like 80-90 mph! Also because of the steep curve of entrances into the freeway and the extremely short distance of the space you have before you have to get on the freeway itself, you're going like 5 to 10 mph. It's also only two lanes wide and there are a lot of curves so drivers often don't really see you until they're right on you especially if they're yakking away on their damn cells.


Last night I visited a friend in Newport Beach, I went on 2, 5, 60, 710, 405, then finally 73. All in the space of an hour

	12-08-2004 02:27									#82
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I new a guy who smoked newports... they aren't that bad.

	12-08-2004 02:32									#83
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Really? Heard that newports are pretty nasty.

	29-08-2004 16:01									#84
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Bippity, boppity, bump.

	29-08-2004 16:19									#85
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The thread that just won't die. SINK YOU THREAD!

	29-08-2004 16:20									#86
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That's some cool stuff, guys. I really like driving on freeways, so maybe I'll do it some time, like rent a car, and drive through the west coast. ( I am planning to do western European highways first, tho)

	29-08-2004 16:24									#87
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I hear the freeways in France are bumpy as all hell. I haven't been there so I can't say first hand though. I have been to Germany and the autobohn was

	29-08-2004 16:25									#88
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This thread does have an expiration date of sorts:

quote: The team of scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, predict that a quake will occur within a 12,000-square-mile area east of Los Angeles by Sept. 5. The zone includes a large swath of the Mojave Desert, the Coachella Valley, the Imperial Valley and eastern San Diego County.

Only a few more days...

	29-08-2004 16:29									#89
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quote: I hear the freeways in France are bumpy as all hell. I haven't been there so I can't say first hand though. I have been to Germany and the autobohn was

I don't remember the highways in france being esp. bumpy, but I was just a kid then, and it was a huge ass bus....



Hey, guess what, I've got "Los Angeles is burning" playing right now...

	29-08-2004 19:17									#90
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quote: Originally posted by Verto My plans of singlehandedly bringing down the price of Californian real estate, by provoking a mass exodus from the state, has failed. Death to the commie-fascist-gay-Zionists who have foiled my schemes!

I'm a commie who rents, and I wish you would have succeeded.