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To celebrate the one year anniversary of Control City Freak, we finally get to the best road of them all! Interstate 70 passes through breathtaking mountains, many tunnels, Breezewood, and my home town. Find out what I would replace Limon with in this episode! Control City Freak is updated weekly and covers every two digit Interstate Highway in America. I'll be showing control city signs on each 1 and 2 digit (2di) Interstate Highway in the continental United States and will strive to make as complete a record as possible. I'll also be getting into the roadgeek weeds here and there, showing downtown skylines and state border crossings, and making corny jokes. I welcome all to join my geeky tour of every primary Interstate in the country!
All images of roads and signs come from Google Street View unless otherwise specified.
The Interstate 70 Shield comes from Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.o...
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Music: Acoustic Sunrise, from the Apple iMovie sounds library
Control City Freak Episodes mentioned in this video:
Interstate 29 North • Interstate 29 North
Interstate 25 South • Interstate 25 South
Interstate 49 Northern • Interstate 49 Northern
Interstate 64 East • Interstate 64 East
Interstate 57 • Interstate 57
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@xanadustudios2586 2 года назад

CCF: You can't defeat me. Statesville: I know, but *he* can. ****LIMON****

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

lol

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

I have a revision for signs on I-70 ... West -- Morgantown (until I-68), Harrisburg (until I-76), Wheeling, Zanesville, Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis, Effingham, St Louis, Kansas City, Topeka, Salina, Denver, Grand Junction, Green River, St George

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

East -- Green River, Grand Junction, Denver, Salina, Topeka, Kansas City, St Louis, Effingham, Indianapolis, Dayton, Columbus, Zanesville, Wheeling, Harrisburg, Philadelphia (until I-76), Baltimore

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

@@ControlCityFreak I have a revision for I-70 East -- Green River, Grand Junction, Denver, Salina, Topeka, Kansas City, St Louis, Effingham, Indianapolis, Dayton, Columbus, Zanesville, Wheeling, Harrisburg, Philadelphia (until I-76), Baltimore East -- Morgantown (until I-68), Harrisburg, Wheeling, Zanesville, Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis, Effingham, St Louis, Kansas City, Topeka, Salina, Denver, Grand Junction, Green River, St George, UT

@ControlCityFreak Год назад

@@marcusamspaugh1504 Hard pass on a lot of these. Green River? And literally the only reason to sign Effingham is the I-57 junction, and both Chicago and Memphis traffic would have already taken 55.

@dhinton1 3 месяца назад

11:31 update ...... if i recall correctly, MISSOURI DOT is in the works (or in the planning stages) of upgrading the ENTIRE KC-TO-STL stretch of 70 to 3 lanes each way.

@slcpd6469 Год назад

Your description of 70E from KC to STL is spot on. Fireworks and Porno stores!!!

@DerekWitt Год назад

That is a very apt description for this stretch. I drove it from KC to Columbia several years ago. A sad state of affairs indeed. I thought the truck stop just east of the Missouri River seemed abit out of place when I first saw it. But a welcome change from the fireworks and porn shops though!

@brucetelfeyan 2 года назад

The eastern end of I-70 as it enters Baltimore is hilarious and pathetic. Of course this is another case (much like I-95 in Boston and DC and I-40 in Memphis) where it proved to be to politically painful, costly, and unachievable to build an interstate through the heart of a city. In this case, I-70 was originally planned to continue east through Baltimore and terminate where it would have met I-95.

@PGHammer21A 2 года назад

That is because it was not supposed to end there - blame the haterade of the 1970s. Interstate 70 was supposed to end at Interstate 895 (the western end of the Harbor Tunnel Thruway) - there even used to be a stub end there. It's not even the only Interstate with a wacky end in Baltimore - Interstate 83's southern end is President Street - just north of Camden Yards.

@dhinton1 2 года назад

yes .... the I-40 through Memphis and I-70 into Baltimore stubs are hilarious and pathetic indeed. timing was poor in BOTH cases. and it makes LESS sense that I-95 isn't on I-93's roadway in Boston ... and I-93 isn't on I-95's around it ... but that's Boston. lol

@PhilipJReed-db3zc 2 года назад

It's sort of a monument to just how destructive the original plan would have been.... and was, by cutting off Louisville, Cincinnati, and even Memphis (the downtown portion) from their riverfronts.

@CrystalClearWith8BE Год назад

It's weird why freeway revolts happenes like that.

@FreeDarth Год назад

I was in Baltimore this weekend ( I drove on i 70 after missing my turn onto 695, I love Baltimore to death, but the potholes messed my tire up 😢

@bigmonmagoomba9634 2 года назад

I hitchhiked that road from St. Louis to the Penn Turnpike at least a dozen times. Spent a night in a snowstorm under an overpass in Richmond IN once. Back in early ‘70s.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Sounds rough but also pretty awesome

@roaddogsnew 2 года назад

Congratulations on being here for one year!!!!!🥳🥳🎁🎊🎉🎁🎊🎉. It has great content. Every time a video gets made I watch it.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Thanks!

@mrAhollandjr 2 года назад

I'm not sure if I can remember this accurately, but I think I 70 was meant to run further into Baltimore but a Freeway Revolt put and end to most of the expressway except for a small portion that had already been built. Otherwise things may have been completely different

@StukInBuf 2 года назад

It's Washington, Pennsylvania; it's a small college town south of Pittsburgh, and the last large community, if you drive south on 79, before you enter West Virginia. BTW, when you enter West Virginia on 79, Morgantown (U. of WV - Mountaineers) is the first city.

@DNSKansas 2 года назад

Drive a few miles south on 79 from Morgantown and you get to Fairmont, home of Joe Manchin and Nick Saban

@williamparks2203 2 года назад

Something interesting about that Park and Ride at the eastern terminus of 70. I-70 was originally planned to go into Baltimore and curve south to I-95 and intersect near the Caton Avenue exit on 95. In fact you can still see the ghost ramps there that the state built in preparation for it. I-170 was then going to sprout off and go into downtown and intersect with I-83. The State had already started construction on I-170 in West Baltimore, but abandoned the project after residents in West Baltimore fought against the projects. Leaving a mile long stretch of expressway signed as US 40 in West Baltimore that goes no where and the weird park and ride situation there at Security Boulevard on 70.

@thomasrinschler6783 2 года назад

Oh, so that small section of expressway was supposed to be I-170? I always assumed it was supposed to part of I-70 proper. I can see the spot on Google Maps where you say I-70 and I-95 would have met, and it looks like I-70 would have basically gone through some parkland to get to I-95. Ii doesn't look like too many residences/businesses would have been affected by its construction (pretty much contained to the area around US 1 just to the north of I-95), so why the uproar to stop it? I guess they really like those parks? (Obviously I can see the uproar over I-170 - it's basically plowing its way through a densely populated neighborhood).

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Great info!

@williamparks2203 2 года назад

@@thomasrinschler6783 That's what I don't get either. I'm not sure what the exact route would have been.

@dhinton1 2 года назад

I can see the uproar over running I-70 through that massive park to get it to I-95 .... and the cleanest alternative would essentially put 70 on the same line that US 40 currently lays on to about Hilton St .... and that never was gonna get past residents back then, neither. it's the same kinda uproar that shut down a lot of interstate paths back then (see I-40 in downtown Memphis). and I-170 probably was worse ...

@Nl-nn3ds Год назад

Traveling west on I-70 passed Frisco I encountered an electronic sign saying I-70 was closed both directions at Vail. Between that sign and where the traffic stopped there were no exits. I sat there parked with the engine off for about 45 minutes until traffic started to move. A few miles down the road the state police were directing all traffic across the median and eastbound. I tuned in a Denver radio station and the traffic guy advised to go back eastbound then south to Leadville and back to I-70. It took 3 hours but it worked. When I stopped for the night about 6 hours later I-70 was stilled closed. A risk to traveling on I-70 in Utah and Colorado is that if it gets closed there is no alternate route.

@ControlCityFreak Год назад

True, sounds like a rough detour

@MalachiDees2005 3 месяца назад

I-77 South from I-70 heads just east of Marietta, on the Ohio border in Ohio. Once into West Virginia, it bypasses Parkersburg, and continues south into Charleston, where a long concurrency with I-64 happens until Beckley, WV. If I had to choose between control cities for I-77 South on eastbound I-70, I would either go Parkersburg or Charleston.

@SonicandHighwayDude401 Год назад

I’ve never been on I-70 west of Indianapolis, but I’ve been on the entire route east of Indianapolis. I even remember getting a Indiana State Map from a Rest Stop on 70.

@oofoof12814 2 года назад

8:08 Lawrence, Kansas is actually where history RU-vidr Mr. Beat lives.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Love his channel

@anthropicandroid4494 Месяц назад

This is also my favorite route to date; Terra Haute and Junction City are underrated but that stretch from Grand Junction to Denver is phenomenal. If you'll indulge some "bookends", most of old US 40 remains on either end of 70! To the west, it found and still parallels the Bonneville stretch of 80 and exists as intermittent sideage all through Nevada... Both go within yards of old wagon ruts. Historic 40 goes through CA to Vallejo at least; a great ride. Where it re-emerges from under 70 on the East end, freeway protests stopped 70 a mile North of 40. That car park is often a favorite for renegade horticulturalists tending the nearby Glen and on the other side of that a long abandoned and disused section of elevated roadway surrounded by access roads that merge onto that to form a freeway that ends in another 2. Then it's straight across town past the library& cathedral to where 70 was supposed to terminate into 95. But "America's Main Street" US 40 keeps on, going by old Powhatan trails parallel to 95 and both alongside 2 train trestles in a fantastic set of bridges over the Susquehanna. It even goes through Wilmington to Atlantic City IIRC. Great content!

@ControlCityFreak Месяц назад

40 content coming soon! NFL Week 1.

@anthropicandroid4494 Месяц назад

@@ControlCityFreak wow, excellent!!!

@cometthemountainlion181 2 года назад

It could definitely be worse. Imagine coming out of the park and ride in Baltimore and seeing a 70 West Limon pull through. Or a firework store listed on a mileage sign.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Lol

@spellcast1391 2 года назад

Hilarious. Same amount of miles as people in Limon

@dhinton1 2 года назад

LIIIIIIIIMON ....

@finnrummygaming 2 года назад

The part where there was 105 miles without services in Utah is the longest stretch of interstate without services. The Marietta referred to on I-77 is in Ohio, it is signed because it is the border with West Virginia. Parkersburg and Charleston are more populous cities that should be signed instead (preferably Charleston but either would work).

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

I think Charleston is the way to go after looking at the comments. Kinda weird that ODOT would be concerned with signing a border town that one time when they are pretty good about signing out of state cities elsewhere

@finnrummygaming 2 года назад

@@ControlCityFreak the issue might be that since US-33 and I-79 are shortcuts between I-70 and Charleston that vehicles on I-70 likely aren’t taking 77 to get to Charleston, but it should at least be signed when on I-77 south (it isn’t).

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

Signing Marrietta, SR 7 will take you to US 23 & Portsmouth, going north on 77, SR 7 will take you to Bridgeport (Wheeling) & I-70

@samseddmedia Год назад

Co-signing Parkersburg AND Charleston could work. Parkersburg by itself is okay. Charleston, however, is the bigger draw for long-distance traffic. Anyhow, Marietta is a very provincial control city. It shouldn't be signed on I-77 South. The Interstate Highway System was meant for long-distance traffic, but in this instance Ohio is just focusing on in-state traffic (for whatever reason).

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

@@samseddmedia Marietta used to be a stop for the riverboats that had tours on the Mississippi & Ohio Rivers. That was probably the other reason for signing Marietta (tourism)

@johnm.teague8125 2 года назад

I am from NJ, and I drove I-70 across Missouri last year. Literally explained exactly as I remember. 🤣🤣

@zack9777 2 года назад

Pork roll or Taylor ham

@poisondog88 2 года назад

I-70 is one of my home interstates, nice to see a video being done on it!

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Thanks!

@mattluse5037 2 года назад

Limon is the fart joke of this channel and I love it

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Lol

@dhinton1 2 года назад

Basically 😂😂

@sirharry13 Год назад

Fun fact: When 70 East splits off from 55 North in Illinois towards Effingham, the mile markers (and exit numbers) from this point eastward, are actually a continuation of I-270's mileage instead of I-55's mileage (or I-70's mileage from the Stan Span). So there is a 5-mile offset between I-70's shown mileage and I-70's true mileage in Illinois

@ControlCityFreak Год назад

Oh interesting!

@sirharry13 Год назад

Just think of the Illinois part of I-270 and I-70 east of the 55/70/270 interchange as being one continous freeway (since there's no turning off involved) and the mile markers make a lot more sense. This is probably the best route to take if you're going from, say, KC to Indy (and vice versa)

@dhinton1 3 месяца назад

yeah ..... 70's mileage in ILLINOIS used to throw me off back in the day til i realized this. and OTR traffic not going to St. Louis definitely would stay on 270.

@DoubleACbg 2 года назад

At the interchange with I-70 and I-77, Marietta is in Ohio along the Ohio River... never drove there, but was part of a riverboat crew taking our vessel from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati for a festival, so we sailed past Marietta en route. Perhaps ODOT made Marietta a control city because it was within the state’s boundaries, but other cities like Parkersburg and Charleston in West Virginia could possibly have been more immediate control cities.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Agreed

@PhilipJReed-db3zc 2 года назад

It's like normally-responsible Ohio decided to take a dabble in how provincial NC or MS lives. Also I can't read Marietta without hearing my Atlantan friend telling me to pronounce their suburb May-retta.

@ARRON_THE_ZEROTH Год назад

ODOT could do to I-77 what they've done to US 35, where if there aren't any major cities in the area to sign from south of Cambridge, they could sign Marietta only on mileage signs, and do Charleston W Va on SB 77, and I think Parkersburg could be feasible on WVDOT part, as they do it with Point Pleasant on US 35.

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

Marietta is the county seat of Washington County, Ohio

@newnathan1987 Год назад

The Billboard situation on I-70 seems to have improved somewhat. However the traffic is still way to congested. I really wish they would designate US-36 as a continuation of I-72 west of Hannibal. That may take some of the pressure off I-70 through Missouri. If not, I-70 needs to be 6 lanes across the entire state. I'm just not sure how they could possibly pull that off in Columbia.

@dr4782 Год назад

U.S. 36 in Missouri is not engineered to Interstate standards. In many (most?) cases, the highway was twinned, and the original alignment was left as is, so one side of the highway is graded properly, but the other side is not, and follows the lay of the land instead. The most glaring example of this is in Linn County between the Marceline interchange and the Macon County line. Both directions of U.S. 36 will have to be graded properly before it can be designated as I-72.

@marquan1976 17 дней назад

The weirdest end of any interstate: Amen to that!

@StukInBuf 2 года назад

16:00... It's Marietta, OH. Across the water from there is Parkersburg, WV.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Gotcha

@EyeMWing 2 года назад

Couple years ago I was driving eastbound on 70 through Glenwood Canyon in Colorado, and they were using the freeway as a firebreak for a wildfire to the north. They had the westbound side of the freeway completely shut down, and were running a counterflow on the eastbound side - so one-lane in either direction, all the exits and rest areas closed. All the way up to and in fact *THROUGH* the Eisenhower/Johnson tunnel. They were only running traffic one direction at a time through the Johnson Tunnel side., and switching back to two-direction operation on the east side No idea why they made that particular choice, because they could have easily used both tubes and used the counterflow switchover on the west side instead of the east side. Easily one of the more surreal ways I've spent an afternoon's drive.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Wow that would be pretty weird. I suppose if you’re going to be stuck in traffic, it’s one of the more scenic places to be

@JDGurg 2 года назад

Drive the Columbus part every day. Love it except the construction lol

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Yeah that’s a pretty decent section

@UserName-ts3sp 2 года назад

for some reason everyone out on 70 by 33 drives like an idiot

@elevatingthemidwest2379 Год назад

the "Limon" thing is so spot on. I'm from Hays and I find it weird it's a control city all the way to the KS/CO border (despite that university being there). I'm grateful my home is even a control city at all; we never had an overhead gantry from I-70 (I wish we did, dunno why lol) but our exit for US-183 used to have a traffic light made in 2008. Sadly it's now a roundabout, so there are no diamond interchanges with traffic lights on I-70 in between E-470 in Denver and 9th Street in Salina (in addition to there being no overhead exit signs between E-470 and I-135 except for that one westbound sign in Burlington at the Rose Avenue exit), and the Hays exit 159 is now the westernmost diamond with a roundabout until the Pecos Street exit in Denver. Some of the overhead signs on 135 in Salina also appear to have been temporarily removed. In comparison, the overhead signs for Lawrence on I-70 are relatively new and I can't get over the fact I-75 in Georgia has overhead signs for every freaking exit.

@elevatingthemidwest2379 Год назад

Forgot to mention, all the signs for Hays in Colorado used to be for Salina a few years ago.

@mxderate 2 года назад

I think another good way to solve the Denver-KC control city problem is to pull an Ohio move and sign KC from across the state, but once you are in Salina, sign Topeka.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Yeah that could work too

@DerekWitt Год назад

Eastbound is actually signed for Topeka and westbound for Salina on side roads. But Salina is signed rather haphazardly though between the two cities on those side roads though.

@jordanjones5751 Год назад

@@ControlCityFreak I’d sign it Kansas City from Denver but Kansas isn’t too bad of a choice either. By the way here’s my opinion of the way it should be for I-70 eastbound Denver Kansas City St. Louis Illinois Indianapolis Dayton Columbus Wheeling Pittsburgh Baltimore/Harrisburg Baltimore/Washington Baltimore

@phreshone1 2 года назад

287 in Limon is the low grade route between Amarillo/DFW and Denver ... Though truck drivers should be able to handle it without a control designation More likely Limon signage is a remnant of the railroads when the Interstate was built. both the Union Pacific and Rock Island Railroads passed through and were serviced in Limon. the Rock Island mainline famously split 🪓 n Limon, meaning passenger trains from Chicago/KC were split westbound/combined eastbound with one section going to Denver and the other to Pueblo. The Rock Island connected with the original DRW mainline in Pueblo, ehere the original Rio Grande mainline traveled up the Arkansas river, over the Tennessee Pass and through the Rockies...

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Interesting, thanks!

@huskerhank6231 2 года назад

As one foamer to another I fully concur. And if you need to ask what is a foamer I'm sorry..No hope for you. Left up to me I would have the control points as former division points or other places of legitimate interest...like out of Denver your control points would be Minturn and to the south Palmer Lake. Maybe have the turnoff to Salt Lake City marked for Helper.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

@@huskerhank6231 I know they mark it for Westbound and I intend to include it on that video, didn't check for east but seems like eastbound SLC traffic would have just stayed on 15.

@BFUS_official Год назад

4:35 Control City Freak roasts Limon for being a control city

@samseddmedia Год назад

NOT A MAJOR CITY!!! LEAVE LIMON OUT OF THE PRIMARY CONTROL CITY LIST!!! IT'S NOT BIG ENOUGH TO BE CONTROL CITY WORTHY!!!

@leatherman88ch 2 года назад

I will say this though in the past decade the part between Washington PA and Breezewood has been getting better even though that was the last part to open of the 70 freeway back in the early '80s and '90s and it connects to 43 now too

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Nice, good to hear. It's been a few years since I've driven it personally.

@nathanbrandli6827 2 года назад

Better how?

@dr4782 Год назад

@@nathanbrandli6827 I-70 in Pennsylvania from Washington to New Stanton was originally built as PA 71, and subsequently grandfathered into the Interstate Highway System. As a result, there were no "Interstate standards" to engineer it to, and it was built with zero federal tax dollars, during a time that post-war suburban sprawl hadn't happened on a large scale yet, so there were no right-of-way considerations. It doesn't help that much of the area was heavily undermined for coal as well, so subsidence has been a problem in some areas. In spite of it all, PennDOT has been slowly but surely upgrading that segment of I-70 to Interstate standards, including full 4' inner shoulders and 12' outer shoulders, and the reconfiguration of several interchanges, including much longer acceleration and deceleration ramps. There's still a ways to go, but it's reached the point now where obvious progress has been made. Unfortunately, Pennsylvania went on a highway-building binge after the Turnpike was constructed but before the Interstate Highway System was enacted, so PennDOT still has a few hundred miles of pre-Interstate Interstate segments to modernize, including, but not limited to, I-83 from York to Harrisburg, and I-70 from Breezewood to the Maryland state line.

@drivingbritt9617 9 месяцев назад

I-70 can also be used for a cross country road trip from Los Angeles to New York and vice versa, when used in combination with I-15, I-76, and I-78. On this route, one drives from the west end of 70 in Cove Fort, UT all the way to the end of 70's concurrency with the PA Turnpike near Breezewood (or vice versa), nearly 95% of 70 is driven on this route between LA and New York.

@Yeagermeister08 2 месяца назад

In 2014, MDOT designated I-70 east of I-695 as Maryland Route 570. Which explains the "I-70 ends at I-695" sign. They just haven't signed the state highway yet. Probably becuase they're going to convert the highway into a boulevard type thing. As for my "The Way It Should Be", it is as follows : East : Grand Junction Colorado Springs/Denver (Until US 24) Denver Salina Manhattan/Topeka (Until Kansas 18) Topeka Lawrence/Kansas City Kansas City Columbia St. Louis (Until I-64) Airport/Chicago (Until I-270) St. Louis Terre Haute Indianapolis Springfield/Columbus Columbus Wheeling Pittsburgh/Baltimore/Washington (Until I-79) Harrisburg/Baltimore/Washington (Until I-76 split) Hagerstown/Baltimore/Washington Frederick/Baltimore/Washington Baltimore West : Frederick/Pittsburgh Hagerstown/Pittsburgh Cumberland/Pittsburgh (Until I-68) Pittsburgh (Until I-76 split) Wheeling Columbus Springfield/Dayton Dayton (Until Ohio 4) Indianapolis Terre Haute St. Louis (Until I-64/I-55 split) Columbia Kansas City Lawrence Topeka Salina Colorado Springs/Denver (Until US 24 split) Denver Grand Junction/Salt Lake City (Until US 40 split) Grand Junction Salt Lake City/Las Vegas (Until US 6/US 191 split) St. George/Las Vegas

@denniscain7218 2 месяца назад

Respect to truckers coming into Golden from the mountains. I"m surprised there aren't runaway trucks everyday on that route.

@MSmith-cf5ke 2 года назад

Happy birthday!

@drivingbritt9617 Год назад

The scenery on I-70 in Utah and Colorado is absolutely stunning, I have to drive that stretch someday and film some dashcam footage. I-70's stretch thru the Appalachians in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland also doesn't look too bad either.

@ControlCityFreak Год назад

Literally just did it, will post about it before long!

@drivingbritt9617 Год назад

@@ControlCityFreak You just got done driving all of I-70?

@ControlCityFreak Год назад

@@drivingbritt9617 The western half

@drivingbritt9617 Год назад

@@ControlCityFreak NICE!!!

@vernonsheldon-witter1225 2 года назад

From Denver Limon (first real services)/Colorado Springs (via 24) Colby (First real services in Kansas) Hays (Ft. Hays State University/blizzard closures) Salina -I-135 to Wichita Manhattan/Junction City (Kansas State University, Fort Riley)K-177 Topeka (Kansas State Capital) Lawrence (University of Kansas) US 73 to Leavenworth ( Federal Prison and Fort Leavenworth) Kansas City These are essential stops within the state (as you should know) for services and important Towns and Cities. Not too many and no unsavory porn stops like in Missouri.

@DerekWitt Год назад

When I drove from KCK to Great Bend in 13, my stops were the Topeka travel plaza on the turnpike and Salina. The small gas station at the K-156 exit north of Ellsworth was a welcome sight though.

@mxderate Год назад

None of them besides KC and maybe Topeka should be control cities.

@DerekWitt 2 года назад

7:14 - if I was going to Lake Wilson on I-70, I’d welcome this sign for Dorrance. But, 70 is way out of the way of that lake from Great Bend. But I just usually took the back roads from GB, through Hoisington, past Hoisington High School on Susank Road. This very winding road eventually hits I-70 at Dorrance. :) I used jump off the cliffs at Lake Wilson all the time as a kid. But, K-156 is a joy to drive in Ellsworth County. It does go past Cheyenne Bottoms in Barton County. :)

@Mathman2021 2 года назад

I was on I-70 East after we left Grand Canyon around the end of July. My favorite part of I-70 was the tunnel! I forgot which way is which but. Ya.

@j.s.7335 2 года назад

5:08 I think you are incorrect. US-287 is the better route to Amarillo because avoids the mountains at Raton Pass and the horrendous traffic between Denver and Colorado Springs on I-25. I know it's not really relevant to the video, but related to my point above, I can't believe you omitted the best signs on the whole Interstate system: "Truckers Don’t Be Fooled, You’re Not Down Yet", and similar. They are at once both very humorous and, quite sadly, literally deadly serious.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Oh I missed those, it’s been a while since I’ve driven that stretch so I forgot about it

@samseddmedia Год назад

Maybe THAT'S why Limon is signed from Denver instead of Kansas City. Still, Limon is a terrible choice for long-distance traffic.

@315Mikey Год назад

What I would like to see is the return of dual mileage signs, especially for rural areas. For example, the first mileage sign would say "Joseph 24 Richfield 35 Salina 55” and then about a quarter mile later have "Denver 507" on its own sign. Outside of Denver, it might say "Strasbourg 6 Limon 55 Kansas State Line 143" with a sign saying ”Kansas City 568" just afterward. Those used to be the norm in the 1970s & I have no idea why they went away.....

@samseddmedia Год назад

AND WHY DID THEY GO WITH LIMON!!!???

@Vincent-ke5zn Год назад

Congratulations on your 1 year anniversary of your RU-vid videos

@ControlCityFreak Год назад

Thanks!

@jay5243 2 года назад

The main part of I-70 ends at I-695 ( the Baltimore beltway ) . Supposedly 70 was to go to downtown Baltimore but was not constructed past the park and ride.

@dmnemaine Год назад

I've been on I-70 once in my life. My biggest memory of it was breaking down just outside of Terre Haute, IN in a 1980 VW Rabbit pickup. While waiting for the tow truck, the pickup got literally covered with ladybugs. I've never seen so many insects in one place like that. It was like a plague of locusts.

@ControlCityFreak Год назад

Wow!

@BFUS_official Год назад

EB or WB

@dmnemaine Год назад

@@BFUS_official East

@insertchannelnamehere632 Год назад

Imo through Kansas city eastbound 70 should be signed as "Downtown Kansas City", at least until we're in downtown and 670 as "St Louis", because that's how the traffic is designed to flow, specifically at the 70/670 split

@ControlCityFreak Год назад

I’d sign “Kansas City” or “Dowtown” for every road going into the alphabet loop and to the next control coming out

@andrewdevore4799 27 дней назад

11:50 There's 104 days of summer vacation and school comes along just to end it, and the only problem of our generation is finding a good way to spend it like maybe...

@pghrpg4065 2 года назад

I've only been on I-70 across Missouri twice, both westbound. After that first time I did it, I started referring to it as the God and porn highway. Yes, the stretch from Washington to New Stanton is substandard, and probably always will be.

@DNSKansas 2 года назад

It's the worst in Columbia. The sub-standard starts east of MO-13.

@dhinton1 2 года назад

they actually JUST completed an overhaul of the joint 70/79 corridor in Washington PA ...

@dhinton1 2 года назад

and the South does LOVE to tell folk about God ... and has an abundance of porn shops along a lot of the interstates. lol

@davidneman6527 2 года назад

Many years ago, the WV to Washington stretch was even more substandard than Washington-New Stanton. One of the exit ramps wasn't even paved. I learned to take other routes.

@adawg2015 8 месяцев назад

I see those on I-44.

@tonybordonaro9066 2 года назад

You said one hundred-five correctly and I love you for that.

@langstonreese7077 2 года назад

Finally we talk about an interstate pack where we have all the numbers from 1 to 9 (meaning i70 - i79) same for the i95 but it’s skip counting up by hundreds (not counting i995 bc their is no i995, only goes up to i990 which is the highest numbered interstate in the interstate highway system which is also called Lockport highway. It was originally gonna go to Lockport but I guess it’s unfinished… (not meaning it’s abandoned)).

@silvercoulter 2 года назад

after Indianapolis they should sign that park and ride

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Lol

@shaynestephens 2 года назад

Happy Birthday Control City Freak!

@JeffreyReedy-tm2xw 10 месяцев назад

I'm from the Dayton, Ohio area. I have family in the Columbus area and as a child, (I'm 30 now) the beltway around Columbus used to have control cities. I'd come from the western interchange with 270. 270 was marked north: Cleveland and south: Cincinnati. It would give 70s and 71s control cities.

@ControlCityFreak 10 месяцев назад

Weird, wonder why they changed it. Seems like a better way to go.

@JeffreyReedy-tm2xw 10 месяцев назад

Yeah, that's what I always thought. Like I've heard you say in the 64, 65, and 71 videos, I agree with you in 264 and 265 that they need control cities. I always think those signs look dumb without any in the 3 diget routes.

@jdcjeep47 2 года назад

Awesome video, keep up the great work!

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Thanks!

@RichardinNC1 2 года назад

It was mind blowing to a friend in Pittsburgh that I-70 though Denver was the same road continued from near Pittsburgh! I have driven or been on much of I-70 in different times, from DC all the way through Colorado. PS: I have family in Wheeling but now in NC I pass thru Marietta OH (I-77) all the time. It’s on the OH river across from WV. PPS: The original National road now route 40 follows much of the same route from DC to Wheeling, Columbus, St Louis, Denver and beyond, but not sure of its route after that.

@nickparadies350 Год назад

US 40 turns north after Denver and ends in Salt Lake City, I believe it used to continue all the way out to San Francisco but has now been replaced by I-80.

@DavidLeon140m3 Год назад

I have travelled to and from Denver from my house in Amarillo TX, taking 287 saves time and there is less mountain grades and better roads than in New Mexico on 87.

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

I think Zanesville should be signed again for a couple of reasons. The population is a hair under 50,000 & Ohio is modernizing I-70 through Downtown Zanesville

@ControlCityFreak Год назад

Hard pass. It’s too close to Columbus and the city proper is 24,000. Even Wheeling is questionable, should probably just be Pittsburgh

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

They added Cambridge to Zanesville's metro area so I-77 could be claimed as part of Zanesville's metro area

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

Zanesville is about 65 miles east of Columbus, Dayton is almost the same distance west of Columbus

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

Marrietta is Ohio's oldest city, it was settled in 1793, 10 years before Ohio became a state

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

Parkersburg, WV is on the other side of the Ohio River. Sign Parkersburg on I-77

@mxderate 2 года назад

I'd say Kansas City should be signed out of Denver. It's the next large metro that we are gonna pass through and no doubt control city worthy.

@DNSKansas 2 года назад

You honestly think any trucker on 70 east out of Denver has a final destination of Hays, Salina or Topeka?

@darknessnight1115 2 года назад

Agree. I could go for a dual Topeka/KC AR-style signage but not signing KC as soon as you exit Denver city limits is just obnoxious

@mxderate 2 года назад

@@darknessnight1115 yeah Topeka/KC or just KC would be the way to go.

@mxderate 2 года назад

@@DNSKansas For real right?

@nathanbrandli6827 2 года назад

Well it shouldn't be Kansas because on the Front Range we joke that Eastern Colorado IS Kansas.😄

@iansampson3076 Год назад

I change my mind. On Interstate 70 going east of Washington, PA, the control city should be Harrisburg. So here is my suggestion on what the control cities should be on both directions on Interstate 70 East Denver Kansas City St. Louis Indianapolis Dayton Columbus Pittsburgh Harrisburg Baltimore West Pittsburgh Columbus Dayton Indianapolis St. Louis Kansas City Denver Las Vegas

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

I agree on SOME of them. Here's my list EAST ... GRAND JUNCTION, DENVER, SALINA, TOPEKA, KANSAS CITY, ST LOUIS, EFFINGHAM, INDIANAPOLIS, DAYTON, COLUMBUS, ZANESVILLE, WHEELING, HARRISBURG, PHILADELPHIA (until I-76), BALTIMORE. WEST ... MORGANTOWN (until I-68), HARRISBURG, WHEELING, ZANESVILLE, COLUMBUS, DAYTON, INDIANAPOLIS, EFFINGHAM, ST LOUIS, KANSAS CITY, TOPEKA, SALINA, DENVER, GRAND JUNCTION, GREEN RIVER, ST GEORGE

@Briisthename0 2 месяца назад

The stretch of I-70 from KC to about Columbia MO is so accurate 😂 I used to go to Mizzou and I live in KC and all I’d see are a bunch of sex shops & billboards telling me I’m going to hell 😂🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

@tommydekker1841 2 года назад

Just an interesting note. In Washington PA, it’s actually faster to take i79 to i68 to get to the Baltimore/Washington area, rather than i70 itself. So you essentially get off i70 for an two hours just to get back on it later.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Whoa, never realized that

@darknessnight1115 2 года назад

Yes-- always shunpike the PA Turnpike for 68. Done both and 68 just seems faster if you're DC/Philly bound, to me at least. That may be why New Stanton is on the sign like he mentioned. Unlike some other states (Oklahoma), maybe Pennsylvania doesn't want to trap people on their turnpike. Lol

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

@@darknessnight1115 KS does some very Turnpike-friendly signage too

@erbewayne6868 2 года назад

Much cheaper than the pa turnpike. Just need to run up and down some big grades.

@mxderate 2 года назад

I think Harrisburg would be the correct choice then.

@mikeshumaker 2 года назад

4:10 Control city for the beginning of I-76 in Denver is Fort Morgan. While that and Sterling are about the only two cities worth a mention on that 185 mile highway, I think the proper choice for a control city would actually be Nebraska, after thinking about it for a few weeks. I mean, it ends 3 miles into that state and blends into I-80, which goes to Lincoln and Omaha, some 500 miles from Denver, which is why neither might be considered for a control city from I-70 here. Oh, and control cities at interchanges are all over the place, too, like Denver, Ft. Morgan, Sterling, and even Julesburg, near the Nebraska line. Some interchanges don't have signs for control cities at all.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Yeah I think I agree with Nebraska. And yeah weird how CDOT does it, sign Limon for a million miles and then no control cities on the actual Limon interchanges.

@mxderate 2 года назад

I think Omaha would be the correct choice coming out of Denver.

@TheSharkKing45 Год назад

@ControlCityFreak i wonder if 76's control cities are leftovers from when it was "80S" back in the 60s and 70s

@mikeshumaker Год назад

@@mxderate Agree. But knowing Colorado, don't count on that ever. They won't sign anything over 100 miles except for Grand Jct. going the other way.

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

Go 1 better than Nebraska, sign 76 to North Platte

@burningdell3062 2 года назад

odot does keep up those travel time signs, especially in the Cincinnati area as there are signs for I-75 SB north of I-275 and before SR 126, along with being in other large metropolitan areas in Ohio.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Nice!

@mxderate 2 года назад

Yeah I've always enjoyed those.

@ARRON_THE_ZEROTH Год назад

Don't know if you've seen the travel time sign on 71 for SR 435 and I-270, but i see it going from Lebanon to Jamestown in Ohio. (The sign is in Clinton County, past the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge).

@315Mikey Год назад

I took a street-view tour of Danville, MO. There is nothing there but a mechanic shop and 6 dirt roads.

@JohnSmith-uj6gx 2 года назад

The part of 70 between 695 and the park and ride in Baltimore used to be considered part of I-70, but it no longer legally is part of 70 - although there are some old signs, obviously. I-70 legally ends at 695.

@brianlatteri8207 5 месяцев назад

I do agree with you Todd I-70 East out of Denver should be Kansas.maybe one of the milege signs should have Kansas City,Missouri. Also from Indianapolis i know Dayton is has gotton bigger now I remember in the old days it had columbus for its pull through.i do think now it should be for Dayton Columbus for its pull through

@mrath 2 года назад

Actually, going East on 70 past Denver (starting from either the junction with I-25 or I-225/Pena Blvd (expressway into DEN)), "Kansas" is a good suggestion for a control city, for most drivers heading east out of the Denver Metro Area are heading towards Kansas (or at least spending the night somewhere there if going further). However, CDOT using Limon makes sense for it is pretty much the largest city service-wise until Colby, KS (of course in recent years Burlington, CO has seen some development), and Kansas City is still pretty far away. Also, going westbound, Limon is the turn-off point for US24, which is the most direct and fastest route to Colorado Springs and points south on I-25. I believe the reason why Ohio/Indiana doesn't consistently use Dayton as a control city on I-70 is that I-70 doesn't go directly into Dayton (only through the northern suburbs., and Dayton is used as the control city on I-75, which does go through the city of Dayton. Also, most likely the reason Pittsburgh is not used as a control city on I-70 is the city of Pittsburgh, as well as Allegheny County does not get anywhere near I-70.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Great points. I agree 70 Doesn’t quite get to Pittsburgh, but it’s certainly near it. Any traffic heading towards Pittsburgh from the west and southwest will probably be on 70 at some point

@mxderate 2 года назад

I'd argue for KC as the control city from Denver. It's a far one, but it is the next large city that I-70 goes through.

@nathanbrandli6827 2 года назад

Pena Boulevard is a freeway, not on expressway. I'm referring to the Wikipedia definition of expressway used in the United States.

@ARRON_THE_ZEROTH Год назад

mrath, good point.

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

I think I know why Ohio doesn't sign Pittsburgh on I-70 is because USR 22 is now a freeway all the way to Pittsburgh from I-77

@jasonputerbaugh9965 2 года назад

I'm from Missouri I also never heard of Danville MO

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Right?

@Vincent-ke5zn Год назад

I think that I-76 should be signed for a Nebraska city

@mxderate Год назад

Agreed. Omaha preferably

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

Omaha is too far away, sign 76 to North Platte

@charleswesterfieldii4592 2 года назад

Todd, I think Goodland should be the control city in that area Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas. A lot of people stop there for the night on a big trip.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

I’ve been to Goodland so I get the argument, but I just don’t think it’s well known enough to be useful for long distance traffic. Great as a secondary control tho

@charleswesterfieldii4592 2 года назад

Yeah, it's a small town about 4500 people. But other than that, nothing out that way.

@nathanbrandli6827 2 года назад

Or you stop there for food or fuel.

@mxderate 2 года назад

Yeah but that's the definition of a secondary. Next substantial town with services.

@vernonsheldon-witter1225 2 года назад

All of us Kansans make fun of the few restaurants at the Goodland area, The last chance Steak and Shake.

@Vincent-ke5zn Год назад

I agree with you on that, the sign should say Wheeling and Pittsburgh

@dylansmith9342 2 года назад

I live in Colorado I-70 is a beautiful drive west of Denver. Was also in Baltimore last year and was on I-70 in Maryland and got to experience the weird ending. I've yet to experience the rest of I-70 between Denver and Frederick, MD.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Nice, you’ve got the bookends!

@GilThorp72 Год назад

Just cut to the chase outside of Denver, go Kansas City or even Topeka!

@DEEJAY440 17 дней назад

My Control Cities for I-70: Denver Aurora Limon Topeka / Kansas City Kansas City Saint Louis Indianapolis Dayton / Columbus Columbus Wheeling Pittsburgh Baltimore / Washington DC Baltimore

@JeffreyReedy-tm2xw 2 месяца назад

ODot does have "Travel Times to:" in other parts of the state as well as other freeways. 75 has one just south of 675 announcing travel times to OH. 63 (Which is where Traders World is and the former Touchdown Jesus statues was) and 275. I think 75 has one towards Toledo as well that I can recall on the top of my head at the moment.

@benjaminchandler7919 Год назад

At the split with 64, 64 should be downtown St. Louis, and 70 should be St. Louis airport

@alexandermelendez1661 2 года назад

Get a chance to see the Interstate video by CPG Grey? Also I love your videos dude. I can't wait to see all the interstates and then what content ideas you have next.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Thanks! I did see it, it’s really well done

@NW255 2 года назад

I went thru breezewood PA on my way to DC. I was confused as all hell when the interstate dumped me into an intersection surrounded by fast food chains

@ianb9851 2 года назад

Personally I think it's deliberate. What better way to tempt people into spending money in your town other than by forcing them to go right through it?

@UserName-ts3sp 2 года назад

@@ianb9851 it was. breezewood fought tooth and nail to keep their junction. it happened with other small towns along freeways (ex: wallace idaho along 90), but breezewood stayed successful

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

I was definitely confused the first time I drove it. Way before Google Maps and the old Rand McNally didn’t prepare me for what was about to go down

@erbewayne6868 2 года назад

All the ma and pa restaurants and motels have shut down.

@StukInBuf 2 года назад

I've travelled that area quite a bit. Just keep your eye on the 70 EAST sign, even though you're going WEST for not even a mile. BTW... that truck stop is a nice and clean joint. Good fueling, snacks and soda, and a restaurant if you want to relax and eat for a while.

@roadgeek1961 2 года назад

The section between I 695 and the park and ride is unsigned I 70. Most of us Road junkies know the stories of the unbuilt sections of Interstates. Can't wait for the rest of pa Interstates.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Yep I know all about it, just figured this video was long enough as is

@roadgeek1961 2 года назад

@@ControlCityFreak Wait for I 90 and I 95

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

@@roadgeek1961 95 may need to be more than 2 parts. 90 I’m less worried about, it goes through a whole lot of nothing out west without the same level of scenery as 70, and I can probably skip through most of the long concurrency since I’ll cover it in 80

@c.t.turner2123 2 года назад

There is a park to the east of there, local opposition and a court halted the process. Same situation as I-40 and The Sam Cooper Blvd in Memphis, Tennessee

@matt_the_trucker 2 года назад

As a person who primarily runs 70 that stretch in Utah where there's no services is exactly right it's a lonely beautiful but lonely stretcher road and during the winter it can be treacherous at times but I agree with you of all the interstates I've traveled I like 70 the best for some reason I don't know why I just like it 😎

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

It’s my favorite too

@n1h0n1um 2 года назад

I went to Washington DC about a week ago for a school trip and I drove I-70 through Maryland and Pennsylvania I got to go through Breezewood as well and yes the taco bell closed there and I got a picture lol

@seanmerritt2905 2 года назад

I’m sure everyone here knows this already, but the brief freeway leading into Breezewood is part of the original Pennsylvania Turnpike from 1940 that was later bypassed in 1968 as part of the realignment that closed tunnels at Rays Hill and Sideling Hill.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

I've seen pictures of the abandoned section, pretty cool

@2112bigd Год назад

695 to 95 to 395 is definitely the best way to Camden Yards from 70 east. As an Orioles season ticket holder I make the drive frequently.

@ControlCityFreak Год назад

I’ve taken that way too

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

I visited the Chesapeake Bay Bridge & Tunnel. I drove US 13, I 95 & 695 to 70

@jdcjeep47 2 года назад

There are actually 4 tunnels on the PA Turnpike....Allegheny, Tuscarora, Kittatinny and Blue Mountain!

@pghrpg4065 2 года назад

But only one is I-70.

@jdcjeep47 2 года назад

@@pghrpg4065True! The roadway designation through the Allegheny Tunnel is 70/76.

@quantumfootball 3 месяца назад

I didn't realize that it was 1000 miles from Limon to the western I-70/I-65 split in Indianapolis until today. How about signing that?

@benjaminchandler7919 Год назад

In Denver, pull throughs on I-70 should say “DEN airport/Kansas,” random interchanges should be signed for Aurora. On other interstates coming south into Denver, it should be signed with an airplane and “Aurora/Witchita KS” so nobody thinks Aurora in Kansas. On NB 25, 470 should be signed “Kansas/Nebraska” and 225 and EB 70 should be signed “DEN airport/Aurora”

@Micg51 2 года назад

Can confirm that 70 west of Grand JCT has nothing on it. At least it’s pretty

@upchessbyabzolute Год назад

LIMON!? LIMON?!? Sign [Censored]-ing Kansas!

@upchessbyabzolute Год назад

Or Hays.

@RFE812 Год назад

@@upchessbyabzoluteKC would be preferable.

@elevatingthemidwest2379 3 месяца назад

@@upchessbyabzolute My standards for a control city would be a decent size, major or somewhat major junctions, *overhead signs*, and traffic lights at the ramps of at least one of the interchanges. Right now Hays despite being my hometown doesn’t have all four of those. There used to be stoplights at exit 159 but they’re roundabouts now. There are plans to add a stoplight for the eastbound ramp at exit 157 once the bridge replacement is complete next year. But unfortunately they have not added (and probably have no plans to) overhead signs on I-70 for the Hays exits. I personally would love for Hays to be the primary control all the way from Denver but if it’s gonna continue to be a primary control at all, they need to consider adding those overhead signs.

@Bobcat9 Год назад

Funny you should mention Danville, MO. I never heard of it either, until 2006 when I was 24 years old, and I met a guy named Dan Bob Martin, both of us in the same platoon in the Army, stationed in Germany. I'm from a pretty obscure place too. My hometown is exit 386 of i75 in Michigan, at M28.

@SpeedNintendo Месяц назад

14:52 These "Travel time to:" signs are found throughout Ohio in higher traffic areas of interstates, though they sometimes take different forms. One example is just outside of Columbus on i-70 E, showing travel times to i-71 on different routes (39.97872115209739, -83.18441386444684). This sign is messed up in the street view imagery, but it is fixed now. I know there's other points at which the same type of sign shown in the video are used, but I can't remember exact locations off the top of my head

@UserName-ts3sp 2 года назад

70 is signed for pittsburgh once... exit 129 in ohio, theres a pull through wheeling/pittsburgh. theres also a couple of wrong way mileage signs in central ohio... i think 115.6 and 116.2, the blue signs

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Oh nice!

@geraldnagytenneson 2 месяца назад

19:28 I always thought that Hagerstown should be signed on 70 but now that I'm thinking about Hagerstown doesn't really make sense on 70 like it does on 81 because you have 2 ginormous cities that are just a bit past Hagerstown and plus we don't even get into the city limits of Hagerstown on 70

@interstate50RoadVideos 2 года назад

20:19 That sign used to be one with a white background for many years. I did not know they had changed it with a green sign.

@Truckngirl 2 года назад

I disagree about US 287. It's a good road. You can actually take it all the way to Dallas. The way you mentioned is actually about 100 miles longer. Are you a trucker? A sales guy? A roaming serial killer? I'm in love with your channel!

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Thanks! None of the above lol, just a road nerd.

@shaynestephens 2 года назад

On East Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-76) after the I-70 split, there are three more tunnels to go through. I know a couple have been bypassed in the past, but you still have the Tuscarora, Kittatinny and Blue Mountain Tunnels.

@bigj200016 Год назад

I was just in 70 about 2 weeks ago in MO. Didn’t see almost any porn billboards. But you know what I saw a ton of? Weed store billboards

@mxderate 2 года назад

Marietta kinda makes sense because it's the first established town in Ohio. But I'd prefer Charleston. Also, Marietta is in Ohio.

@erbewayne6868 2 года назад

Barely.

@mxderate 2 года назад

@@erbewayne6868 True. It borders WV.

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

Kind of agree with Marietta, but Parkersburg is bigger & has US 50 a cross-country highway.

@mxderate Год назад

@@marcusamspaugh1504 Honestly I prefer neither and go straight to Charleston.

@OnTheRoadWithDan 2 года назад

I-70 was originally supposed to go through Downtown Baltimore and end at I-95, but Baltimore residents at the time severely opposed because of being displaced from their neighborhoods which is why you have the weird ending at a Park and Ride.

@AEMoreira81 Год назад

That is also why I-83 ends suddenly where it does. It was the only one partially completed into Baltimore. It should have ended at the Caton Avenue exit. These days, I-70 doesn’t even enter Baltimore officially (it now ends at the 695 beltway). I-70 is no longer signed east of I-695.

@mikeb3275 2 года назад

Marietta was the first settlement in the state of Ohio.

@aaronswink8554 2 года назад

I lived there decades ago and was always taught that it was the first settlement in the Northwest Territory in 1788 - just before Cincinnati and Louisville. There's a ton of historic sights there and it makes sense to make it a control city.

@mxderate 2 года назад

@@aaronswink8554 No it doesn't. Not many people know that and no one's going to the one exit in Marietta.

@RFE812 Год назад

@@aaronswink8554 Pembina is North Dakota’s oldest settlement but they don’t sign it as a Control City because drivers aren’t familiar with it & it’s only got 700-800 people. instead they go straight to Winnipeg. A well known City that drivers are most likely familiar with.

@marcusamspaugh1504 Год назад

@@RFE812 Ohio has more influence than North Dakota, & Ohio's county seats have more than 10,000 people (except Mc Arthur)

@stephlarson2933 6 месяцев назад

Chapter One: Utah Chapter Two: Colorado Chapter Three: Kansas Chapter Four: Missouri Chapter Five: Illinois Chapter Six: Indiana Chapter Seven: Ohio Chapter Eight: West Virginia Chapter Nine: Pennsylvania Chapter Ten: Maryland

@k8kzhradiotipsandreviews31 2 года назад

speaking from experience, ODOT has the travel time to signs all over and also has them on state and us highways.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

Nice

@aaronholcomb237 2 года назад

I think I saw some of them in Massachusetts as well.

@armandoperez7967 2 года назад

I love it! Soon you’ll reach Interstate 75 and Miami Dade County! My home stomping ground!

@armandoperez7967 2 года назад

But before reaching I 75, you have the incomplete Interstates 73 and 74. Those will be loads of fun to watch!

@armandoperez7967 2 года назад

On I 70, I would co-sign it southeasterly over I 695, then take over I 97, freeing up that number for another route. Then I would put I 70 east over US 50 to the Delmarva. I would finally also sign I 595. In the west, why not have I 70 replace US 50 to Sacramento CA and have it end on I 80? The western end of US 50 is already a freeway and could be signed right now! The future I 7 or I 9 could just end on I 70 in Sacramento this way instead of Stockton, since the entire CA 99 highway from Wheeler Ridge to Sacramento will be Interstate standard when all the current construction is completed!

@armandoperez7967 2 года назад

Interstate 70 was initially supposed to be routed east of this park and ride and meet up with Interstate 83 and 95 and end at 95. A spur, I 170, was partially built and signed along US 40, but was decommissioned when the unbuilt part of I 70 was canceled. What was Interstate 70s (now I 270) was supposed to be extended to meet I 66 and I 95, ending there. I 66 was also supposed to end on I 95. I 95 itself was supposed to go through Washington DC but was instead routed along the eastern side of the Capital Beltway co-signed with Interstate 495.

@ControlCityFreak 2 года назад

I’ve taken 50 across Nevada. Definitely no need for an Interstate, I passed like 5 cars.

@armandoperez7967 2 года назад

@@ControlCityFreak Wow! I didn’t know it was that desolate!