Last week’s contest was won by milwhcky, who first provided the link. Broadway Joe and BA get partial credit for both guessing right away that it was Detroit.
Here’s this week’s, good luck! And Happy Easter everyone!
It’s a shit treatment plant on U.S. Route 60, which means it’s in the south, somewhere between Virginia and Arizona. Note, there’s a movie named “Interstate 60” but no highway called Interstate 60.
That’s a US Route symbol, not an Interstate symbol. The latter are always red-white-and-blue. As we’ve seen, US-60 certainly exists, even though I-60 doesn’t.
In fact, the reason there’s no I-60 is that it would probably have run through some of the same states as US-60, and thereby confused people. Ditto for the also-absent I-50 and potential confusion with US-50. As I’m sure you know, US route numbers increase from east to west and from north to south (US-1 is very east, US-2 very north, US-98 very south, US-99 very west). Interstate numbers go the opposite way (I-5 very west, I-10 very south, I-90 very north, I-95 very east).
@6 In fact, the reason there’s no I-60 is that it would probably have run through some of the same states as US-60, and thereby confused people. Ditto for the also-absent I-50 and potential confusion with US-50.
As much as I’m a geek about that stuff, that never occurred to me.
Roger Rabbit spews:
It’s a shit treatment plant on U.S. Route 60, which means it’s in the south, somewhere between Virginia and Arizona. Note, there’s a movie named “Interstate 60” but no highway called Interstate 60.
milwhcky spews:
Charleston, West Virginia
milwhcky spews:
Correction… South Charleston
Lee spews:
@2
That’s it! Two in a row.
David Aquarius spews:
This must be the garden spot of West Virginia.
Doesn’t matter as long as we get all the coal out of the ground.
N in Seattle spews:
Side note to RR:
That’s a US Route symbol, not an Interstate symbol. The latter are always red-white-and-blue. As we’ve seen, US-60 certainly exists, even though I-60 doesn’t.
In fact, the reason there’s no I-60 is that it would probably have run through some of the same states as US-60, and thereby confused people. Ditto for the also-absent I-50 and potential confusion with US-50. As I’m sure you know, US route numbers increase from east to west and from north to south (US-1 is very east, US-2 very north, US-98 very south, US-99 very west). Interstate numbers go the opposite way (I-5 very west, I-10 very south, I-90 very north, I-95 very east).
Lee spews:
@6
In fact, the reason there’s no I-60 is that it would probably have run through some of the same states as US-60, and thereby confused people. Ditto for the also-absent I-50 and potential confusion with US-50.
As much as I’m a geek about that stuff, that never occurred to me.