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re: Anybody else think I-12 should be called I-10?
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:22 pm to SkintBack
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:22 pm to SkintBack
I confess to zoning out while I-10 WB on way from NWFL to TX and failed to catch the I-12 "cutoff". Got off the first opportunity and turned around to catch it from I-10EB
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Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:26 pm to SkintBack
New Orleans is the states largest city, it makes sense that the “main road” along the Gulf Coast should go through there instead of the Northshore, while I-12 is clearly a bypass.
Now the one that really doesn’t make sense is I-610 in New Orleans…this one should absolutely be swapped with 10, and I think they plan to in the future (so within the next 20-40 years minimum)
Now the one that really doesn’t make sense is I-610 in New Orleans…this one should absolutely be swapped with 10, and I think they plan to in the future (so within the next 20-40 years minimum)
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:27 pm to SkintBack
Initially 10 should have been the most Dourer coast to coast route and 12 the bypass to NO.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:31 pm to Bryno1960
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That's hard to believe since 12 has been around since the mid-60's when I was a kid.
You have to remember that people are idiots.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:37 pm to The Boat
I-12 probably should have been called I-410 or something
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:41 pm to JimTiger72
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Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:49 pm to SkintBack
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:29 pm to BThibodeaux
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I heard the same story about 12 originally going to be designated as 10. As the story goes, politics were involved with NOLA leaders influenced the decision so interstate traffic had to travel through town…Not shocking.
Yeah, and Disney World was going to be in New Orleans East, or on the north shore....
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:30 pm to Hangit
I-110 was originally I-410 when US 190 was planned to be part of the interstate system.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:31 pm to The Boat
quote:If the first digit of a spur is odd, then it doesn't link back up with the original interstate it spurs off of. If the first digit is even, then it does.
Spurs and loops don’t follow that rule. They’re numbered off of their parent interstate.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:32 pm to SkintBack
how can I-12 be I-10?
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:33 pm to SkintBack
A better name would be "the perpetual DOTD project"
This post was edited on 2/14/24 at 2:38 pm
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:35 pm to StormyMcMan
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It wouldn't be I-12 anymore, it would be I-8
I-8 runs about halfway between Tucson and Phoenix and runs east/west to San Diego
Posted on 2/14/24 at 2:43 pm to MorbidTheClown
quote:Turn the 2 into a 0
how can I-12 be I-10?
Posted on 2/14/24 at 3:16 pm to Hangit
Spurs are an exception. Any spur will have the last 2 digits matching the main artery.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 3:28 pm to Horsemeat
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If the first digit of a spur is odd, then it doesn't link back up with the original interstate it spurs off of. If the first digit is even, then it does.
Dur?
Posted on 2/14/24 at 3:28 pm to SkintBack
I-10 was there first. 
Posted on 2/14/24 at 3:41 pm to mdomingue
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What they should have done, though, was turned US-190 into I-12 to I-49 north of Opelousas, and put a new bridge or modify the old bridge there at 190. Would have cut a ton of 18-wheeler traffic out that passes through Baton Rouge. And just have a 10 to 12 spur to where it now connects at the 10/12 split
Only problem with your hindsight is that when I-12 was designed/built US HWY 190, also known as FL BLVD, was the main strip for BR. Most of the current route of I-12 was not developed then.
This post was edited on 2/14/24 at 7:31 pm
Posted on 2/14/24 at 3:51 pm to BThibodeaux
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I heard the same story about 12 originally going to be designated as 10. As the story goes, politics were involved with NOLA leaders influenced the decision so interstate traffic had to travel through town…Not shocking.
Yeah it was all politics. I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that bypassing the country's 16th largest city at the time of construction was a dumb idea. It was definitely crooked politics!
This post was edited on 2/14/24 at 8:23 pm
Posted on 2/14/24 at 3:57 pm to Hangit
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Everybody has a series of maps in their pocket. If they are too ignorant or arrogant to look at them, then maybe they deserve a few bullet holes in their car while on I-10 in N.O. east.
On that day, I was surprised to learn that someone wished property damage with the potential of death or serious bodily harm on someone for failing to use a map.
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