logan link

[rmd]

there is a great disturbance in the force -- the east coast end of interstate 90 has moved east to logan airport. both ends of I-90 no longer end close to the appropriate cities' chinatown/I-district neighborhoods.

i drove the logan link this morning -- it goes from what had been the end of route 90 to underground to the end of the ted williams tunnel and from there into logan.

on the way back out from logan, there was a speed trap in the logan-link-not-ted-williams-tunnel part. "inside a tunnel" is high up on the list of places where i don't expect to see a speed trap. but i guess they're working to discourage that "hey! it's a big wide road! let's floor it!" impulse in what's quite reasonably a 45 zone.

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[wrog]

and it's always annoyed me that the signs approaching the interchange in Seattle don't say

I-5 North

Vancouver, BC

I-90 East

Boston, MA

I-5 South

Tijuana, BC

[wrog]

and that's BC as in Baja California.

god, wouldn't that just confuse the shit out of people.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

heh. yeah. that would be cool. and then in boston you could have a sign: "I-90: framingham, ma, seattle, wa"

when i drove back to boston, i was kind of tempted to go west a bit until i was at the very western end of I-90 and *then* turn around and head east, since i was going to the other end of it (although i did spend part of the ride not on route 90, in the middle of the country). but then i figured i would be stopping a couple of exits short of the very eastern end of 90, so it worked out okay.

[wrog]

I keep meaning to make a trip that allows me to drive

• the stretch between Cleveland and Niagara Falls
• the stretch from Rochester to Utica

because if I can then I will have driven every last inch of I-90 (figure I'll be doing the Logan extension the next time I visit Boston).

Problem is that I've since figured out that probably the best/shortest/most-interesting way to do a cross-country drive to Boston involves cutting through northern Michigan, Sault Ste. Marie, Ottawa, Montreal and down I-89/93.

And of course if I otherwise have reason to head east from Cleveland, I'll be wanting to try out the new I-86 (née NY-17), since that's likely to be much more interesting than the NY Thruway.

Hi, can we say highway geek?

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Hi, can we say highway geek?

Ayup.

Hang out on misc.transport.road on Usenet much at all? Intersting stuff.