If I had the power to renumber the region’s interstate highways…
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What the odds the locals would blow this plan off. They simply blew MoDOT off back in 1987 with the Highway 40 into the I-64 mess (back then MoDOT was going by a different name). Since then MoDOT been spending millions in useless PR and the locals still call it 40.
Old habits die hard. Such a major numbering change such as this might be more difficult to ignore than the rebranding of Hwy 40 as I-64. I certainly haven’t heard of any trouble from Nashville after the relocation of I-65 around downtown. Might need to 3-lane the Chain of Rocks bridges first, though.
Easier fix for locals– re-number your I-770 as I-64, so that I-64 could revert to US-40. Alternatively, re-number your I-770 as I-24.
I-24 runs from I-57 to I-75 as a bypass intended to have St. Louis traffic go to Nashville and Atlanta. Therefore, it would be totally dumb to renumber I-770 as I-24.
What the odds the locals would blow this plan off. They simply blew MoDOT off back in 1987 with the Highway 40 into the I-64 mess (back then MoDOT was going by a different name). Since then MoDOT been spending millions in useless PR and the locals still call it 40.
Old habits die hard. Such a major numbering change such as this might be more difficult to ignore than the rebranding of Hwy 40 as I-64. I certainly haven’t heard of any trouble from Nashville after the relocation of I-65 around downtown. Might need to 3-lane the Chain of Rocks bridges first, though.
Easier fix for locals– re-number your I-770 as I-64, so that I-64 could revert to US-40. Alternatively, re-number your I-770 as I-24.
I-24 runs from I-57 to I-75 as a bypass intended to have St. Louis traffic go to Nashville and Atlanta. Therefore, it would be totally dumb to renumber I-770 as I-24.