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Re: Navigate by exit numbers?!

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From: Ken Hornstein
Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 13:48
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In article <MNP.94May11144351@procyon.tibu>,
Mitchell N. Perilstein <mnp@clsi.COM> wrote:
>On straight interstates (two digits, eg, I95) the exit number is usually
>the number of miles to the state border at one end of the road.

This varies from state to state; in my home state (Pennsylvania) this isn't
the case.  I'm pretty sure that this isn't the case in Ohio either.

>There are a whole bunch of nicely consistent things about all the
>country's interstates and how they're numbered.  I know a few, but does
>someone have the whole list?

Only one I know of is odd roads go north-south, even numbers go east-west
(but I'm sure that there's an exception to this somewhere).

--Ken
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From: kenh@wrl.epi.com (Ken Hornstein)
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Subject: Re: Navigate by exit numbers?!
Date: 13 May 1994 09:48:19 -0400
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