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

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January 2018

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...that Interstate 180 in Illinois was built to connect Interstate 80 to a steel plant in Hennepin? Dough4872 18:43, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
...that the Orchard Pond Parkway was the first privately-built toll road to be constructed in Florida? Dough4872 02:43, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
...that the Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, currently used by U.S. Route 93 and proposed for use by Interstate 11, is the first steel-concrete composite arch bridge built in the United States? Dave (talk) 05:26, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
...that the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 132 and Knights Road in Bensalem Township was ranked by Time magazine as the most dangerous intersection in the United States from 2003 until 2012? Dough4872 02:12, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

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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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... that one of the reasons for the creation of the newly designated Interstate 11 is to address two identified bottlenecks in the NAFTA created CANAMEX Corridor? Dave (talk) 22:23, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
...that the section of Florida State Road 520 between Florida State Road 50 and Interstate 95 is nicknamed "Bloody 520" due to the numerous fatalities that have occurred along the road? Dough4872 23:37, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
...that a section of Pennsylvania Route 44 in Potter County is named Highway to the Stars as it passes through Cherry Springs State Park, an International Dark Sky Park that is popular among astronomers and stargazers? Dough4872 01:14, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
...that the U.S. Route 91 corridor was the birthplace of two major fast food chains, the first McDonald's on E street in San Bernadino and the first Kentucky Fried Chicken on State Street in Salt Lake city

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? Sounder Bruce 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"? --Rs chen 7754 04:09, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

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