[ale] Ot: exits on 400

[Alex Carver]

That's a really odd one.  Federal regulations required mile markers on
federal highways to increase west to east and south to north for a great
many years (since at least the inception of the Interstate Highway
System in the early 1940's and the Federal-Aid Highway act of 1956) so
for any of them to be backwards like that would be really unusual.

On 2015-07-27 08:30, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Another thing they appear to have done is enforce the direction the
> numbers go.  I remember before 2000 going from one state to another, the
> last number in the state you were leaving might be 1 and the new state
> mile marker was also 1.  I think that's been fixed too.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On 07/27/2015 10:34 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> I always thought it was a perfectly reasonable idea (go figure, a
>> reasonable idea from the government).  It prevented things like what
>> that AboutNoGa page shows, exits numbered with an additional letter
>> (A,B,...) because there was no room in the sequence.  It also made
>> finding the exits so much easier; I could look at the mile markers and
>> know how far the desired exit was from my location instead of consulting
>> a map, keeping count of exits or guessing.
>