Saikrishna Arcot wrote:
Just to add, three-digit routes tend to be either regional or be
loop-shaped, where the designated direction changes.
On Thu 17 Oct 2013 03:40:07 PM EDT, Ian Dees wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Martijn van Exel <[email protected] wrote:
>
Yea, I realized that as well. There's even a section of I-80 / I-580
in Berkeley, CA where the directionality of I-80 and I-580 is
opposite... http://goo.gl/maps/XROab (The actual compass direction is
more like N/S on that stretch.)
I don't know if there's a definitive reference for the 'official'
> directionality of the freeways?
(Sorry, meant to send this to the list yesterday):
I am not pointing to an authoritative source of Interstate numbering,
though I believe this to be accurate or at least very close: it is
my understanding that in three-digit routes xyz, these are "belt" or
"spur" routes off of the yz route, where x=even means belt and x=odd
means spur (single connection "back to" or "out from" the parent yz
route). A belt has two connections to the parent route, but I'm not
positive if that is exactly two or not.
We have an example in California in the South Bay (area of San
Francisco) of 280 and 680 (together) being a belt that connects to 80
(twice, well, almost twice). The split between these two happens
"sort of conveniently" at US-101.
Yes, E-W even and N-S odd is correct. Furthermore, routes ending in
0 or 5 are "major" routes.
Remember, directions are for long-distance motorways (Interstate
freeways, in local parlance). A bit of local wander in an "off"
direction happens to a lot of roads. Many of these are
direction-specific routed roads. That's OK, consider these a "local
bend in the road." We have roads here signed north which go south.
That just means we have geography (coastlines, mountains, et cetera)
together with "get me from San Francisco to New Jersey on a single
named road."
80/580 through Berkeley are an especially wild example of this. It's
just local geography messing with long-distance cardinal direction
routing. It does that!
SteveA
California
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