Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/Recommend/2018

January 2018

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October 2018

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  • ...that Interstate 580 has portions opened to traffic in the 1960's but was unsigned until 2012? Dave (talk) 06:42, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
  • ...that two 4 character Interstate Highway designations have existed, Interstate H-201 and Interstate 180N? Dave (talk) 06:51, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
  • ...that Interstate 82 was moved to the northeast side of the Yakima River after the government was sued by the Yakama Nation?
  • ...that Utah officialls originally mocked the route of Interstate 70 as a road to nowhere but it was so routed to appease military planners who wanted a better route between Southern California and Denver, Colorado?
    • There have been a few DYK's about the oddities of I-70's route across Utah featured before. However, I'm fairly certain the fact the military requested it be routed this way has not been featured. One issue, is this is actually better explained in the Colorado state detail article better than the Utah one, but both articles do cover it. Dave (talk) 23:04, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
  • ...that to be considered an All-American Road, a road must be deemed to be important enough to be destination unto itself? Dave (talk) 21:51, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
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November 2018

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I state this knowing this is a stretch and may require some discussion and/or article improvement. The US 91 article itself mentions nothing about this. However, both the articles on the history of McDonalds and KFC state the address of the first franchises, and from the articles on those streets one can infer that both E street and State Street were at one time US 91. So its requires digging 3 layers deep into Wikipedia articles, but it's all there.... Dave (talk) 06:09, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
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December 2018

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...that although Interstate 8 does not actually touch the US-Mexico border it has multiple U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints, due to its proximity to the border near Yuma, Arizona and Jacumba, California?Dave (talk) 22:38, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

How about this? SounderBruce 03:43, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
...that despite running parallel to the Mexican border, Interstate 8 has several U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints?
Agreed that my original version is clunky, but I think the fact that it does not actually touch the border is important to add to the hook. Just running parallel could still mean it touches the border. Also, the article is out of date, it only mentions the checkpoint west of Jacumba, their is now one east of Yuma as well, but I don't know when it was added. (I know I've been frisked at both ;) ) Dave (talk) 04:06, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
Maybe "does not cross the border"? --Rschen7754 04:09, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
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