Comments on: Things I Didn’t Know

By: MJ

MJ — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:34:36 +0000

Apart from the religious/superstitious objection to the numbering, it does make sense to renumber the route. As I remember it, it was essentially a north-south route, meaning that it should have an odd number. Thus, the 191/491 numbering makes sense.

By: wolfwalker

wolfwalker — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:33:21 +0000

“for the pragmatic reason that people kept stealing the signs”

Some people will steal anything, no matter how useless. I remember a couple of years ago, I saw a news story from Washington state discussing the chances of a big volcano eruption from Mt Rainier. The story contained a comment that local officials had endless problems planning any evacuation because people kept stealing the signs that said “VOLCANO EVACUATION ROUTE”.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:31:31 +0000

I’m sorry Dave. I didn’t realize you paid to avoid Rt. 666.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:37:46 +0000

Aren’t all roads in VA paved to hell?

By: David

David — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:20:07 +0000

In Herndon, Monroe Ave is VA route 666. I am always amused by this when I pass it on the Dulles toll road…

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:37:10 +0000

Smart kid. Unfortunately this is going to end up in the DSM and a new drug will be created to treat it.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:42:28 +0000

It was a particularly bad horror film.

By: Tim Worstall

Tim Worstall — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:44:20 +0000

When I was there (more decades ago than I like to remember) it was said that it had the highest death rate of any road in the US.

Wouldn’t be all that much of a surprise, going from alcohol free reservations to hte nearest liquor stores.

Or, at least, that’s the story they were telling young Englishmen at the time.

By: Monsyne Dragon

Monsyne Dragon — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:09:13 +0000

I recall driving along this road with my dad some years ago. It was aptly named. Miles and miles of switchbacks, shear cliffs on both sides, curves with 15mph-and-we-mean-it speed limits. The topper was when the road dissapeared entirely, dug away for mining, and had to be detoured *through* an enormous phelps-dodge open-pit copper mine. We had to drive right under the conveyors carrying ore from the rock crushers.

By: James H

James H — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:33:45 +0000

I traveled on that road a couple of times on the way to Wolf Creek Ski Area, I thought it was kind of funny.