It’s so intriguing to see how many different interests there are in this world. Highways are something that 98% of the world doesn’t even think about, just use, but here is a full community of people creating and watching content on it. 😊
Thanks for referring to me by my first name for all of the requests that I had and for adding them into the video. I have a lot of fond memories driving on 95 in the middle east coast and being fascinated by its crazy relationship with 301 in both Virginia and the Carolinas. Really enjoyed the video :)
2:27 Love the Riverview nod here! This exit used to be my home exit because I spent the latter half of my childhood in Riverview where I graduated high school. 301 was basically my backyard Highway while I lived there.
I greatly enjoyed watching this video. It brought back some wonderful memories. My family used to travel on U.S. 301 all the time back in the 90s from I-95's Virginia Exit 82 all the way up to its ORIGINAL northern terminus (prior to the new and transmogrified Potomac River Bridge).
21:30 The signs for US 301 at exit 45 were redesigned after a deadly bus crash, in 2019, where the driver mistook this exit for the I-295 exit. The exit sign at the gore point, now has a US 301 shield on it.
Thanks! I already did I-26 a couple years ago and don't have any immediate plans to reboot it, but I'd be happy to let you request something different. In the community tab and the episode descriptions I always write what the upcoming roads will be.
Fun fact, the frontage road section of US 301 in Virginia used to be part a divided highway US 301. The current roadway used to be the southbound lanes while the northbound lanes would end up being converted to the I-95 southbound lanes.
Tons and tons of abandoned hotels on US 301 in South Carolina because it used to be the main route to Florida before they built I-95.. It also still has a welcome center on US 301 when you enter Georgia from South Carolina, which is the oldest welcome center in the United States.
23:35 - VDOT wanted to encourage drivers who wish to bypass DC on 301 to continue on I-95 north to Exit 104 Carmel Church which says "VA 207 to US 301". In fact, there's a sign at the same exit that says "Last Exit for Potomac River Crossing".
16:33 I believe the reason for I-95 signing US 301 as Local Traffic here is to discourage truckers from using this stretch of 301 as a bypass of a weigh station located between the two 301 exits. 19:16 I believe NC 42 will receive a new designation shortly before I-42 becomes official, because NC 42 intersects Future I-42 in Clayton. 25:36 MD 3 has a LOT of traffic lights and development along it! It may be a shorter distance to Baltimore from this point, but 50/301 to I-97 is faster since its all freeway. I made the MD 3 mistake once going southbound. Never again! Great video! Really enjoying your series on these great US routes. Really looking forward to seeing US 23 one of these days!
As someone born at Ft Bragg who has lived all but six years within 40 miles of I-95 and US-301, I have to say I was really looking forward to this video even knowing the Benson theme would fly for my dear provincial home state. I’ve made more runs to and from Florida on I-95 than I can reckon and I can assure you with 100% certainty that South of the Border is a place so bereft of any use to anyone that you’re truly blessed you’ve never stopped at that utter eyesore tourist trap to the south of Rowland. The only good it has ever done when the sombrero tower comes into view round the curve two miles to the south is that I know I’ll see the beloved tricoloured flag on the sign just afterward welcoming me home to where I belong! :) The last couple of times I’ve gone past, it looks like Pedro has truly fallen on hard times. Decades ago their car parks were packed…last year on the way to Savannah, there were more tumbleweeds than cars and revenues are reportedly in the toilet. The new Buc-Ees just north of Florence may well finally kill them off and bloody good riddance! BTW, one of those six years was when my father did a one year tour at Ft Leavenworth and I have very fond memories of KC (we were there just before the first trip the Royals took to the World Series!).
26:15 It was originally named due to being a parole camp for Confederate POWs, but the idea of a retirement home for people working in DC isn’t all that far off (as someone from the area).
When heading sb on 301 past MD Route 213 I found a mileage sign that list as follows Queenstown 3 Bay Bridge 14 Washington 54 It's pretty good for MD standards especially on a non interstate highway. But the best millage sign in MD is definitely signing Richmond on I-97 almost immediately.
9:54 You had Bamberg pronounced right the first time. And be glad your only bad experience with Orangeburg is bad BBQ. I went there for a weekend in February 1973. As we drove into town, it started snowing. When it stopped 2 days later, there was 21" on the ground and drifts of 5-6 feet. We were stuck there for a week. The SC National Guard had to dig us out. That state isn't used to big snows, and certainly not in that part.
I remember 44 years ago (yeah I'm odd) when we drove from Wilmington NC to PA and back...and back to PA 2 months later. At that time, 95 was still incomplete from near the VA NC state lines up to Petersburg and 301 carried a LOT of north-south traffic. Once in Petersburg, 95 picked up again as the Petersburg-Richmond Turnpike...decommissioned in 1992.
22:41 I didn’t know that there were any Marathon gas stations as far east as Richmond, Virginia. I typically associate that chain with Great Lakes/Ohio Valley states like Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.
Here is a fun fact: when US 301 ended at US 40, you could access both the northern end of US 301 and southern end of US 202 on US 40. It was only separated by a few miles of each other.
@Control City Freak love the US 301 video! As a Delawarean, I need to correct you on one fact. While 301 has the only mileage based exits in the state, it is not the only highway/road that has distance based exits. DE Route 1 has kilometer based exit numbers due to a failed "Metric Highway" experiment in the 1990's
Now they just need to switch it back to mileage based exits again, and do the same for 95, 295, & 495. I remember when they were building Rte 1 in Bear... they did initially use mileage-based exits before the Metric disaster.
8:36 Not so odd, Todd. My hometown of Welland, Ontario used to have this concept, but North and South Main Streets were later renamed to Niagara and King.
I hope you can do US 84 soon! When you get to New Mexico, just north of Espanola, there’s a sign to turn right for “Medanales”. That’s my family’s hometown and my great grandma has a historical marker right off the highway there.
I should’ve also suggested the Kenly Truck Stop which you can access from US 301. It’s pretty awesome and I recommend visiting. Also you missed a Mileage Sign where Richmond is on the bottom line at 73 miles away, right at the NC/VA Line.
Actually, DE-1 exits are KILOMETER based. When the toll road was first constructed, there were kilometer posts; no mile posts. Some time later, they were replaced by the MP's but the exit numbers stayed km based.
Starke known for being 1 of the 3 speed trap towns on 301. Also known for not being too far from Raiford ,the town with the big State prison. Skynyrd wrote a song called 4 walls of Raiford. The stretch between Ocala and Jacksonville use by the people from the Tampa Bay area and Southwest Florida to get to I 95 for getting to the North East section of the country. The Starke bypass was built recently, rare for Florida but common in Pennsylvania where you have an Interstate type bypass a larger town.
At one point in the video around 23:30 you show a mileage sign that has "Hanover Co." as its nearest point. The sign should read "Hanover CH," as it is already in Hanover County. I pass that sign going to work every day, and its error annoys me.
The engineering school I went to is right next to 301, but it's concurrent with US 1 at that point, so it sounds cooler to say I took classes next to US 1 than US 301.
Dade City reminds me of Yanceyville in North Carolina as far as cities and counties not matching up. Yanceyville is in Caswell County in north central North Carolina but Yancey County is in north west NC in the mountains close to Tennessee.
US 36 eastern terminus is in Ohio. In Ohio, State Route 31 in Marysville has a U.S. shield just past the new roundabout north of town. Happens here a lot.
My favorite error is in Hamilton where they have OH-129 displayed with a US shield, but instead of it being a sign they actually painted it into the street. How they got that wrong is beyond me.
That new bridge over the Potomac River was desperately needed. The old bridge was really old and severely rusted over (it was 82 years old when the new bridge opened) . It was only a single lane in each direction which would cause traffic congestion at the merge points on each side of the bridge, It's been almost two years since the replacement bridge was opened, surprised Google Street View hasn't been back over it yet for an update.
Looking at the route east of Washington gives me an idea for a potential Interstate Route that bypasses both Washington and Baltimore that doesn’t involve going through the full length of the Delmarva Peninsula. It’ll also bring an Interstate to two metro areas that currently aren’t served by the system in any capacity I’m going to compile a full list relatively soon (excluding Alaska and Hawaii for reasons that I think should be obvious), so think of this as a “sneak peek” of sorts. My route would branch off from 64 between Richmond and the Hampton Roads, cut across the several peninsulas divided by the James, York and Rappahannock Rivers before utilizing a new Potomac crossing to enter Maryland and serve the California/Lexington Park area from the south/southwest (there’s a decent sized urban area spanning both banks of the Patuxent River, and 210k across the metro area spanning Calvert and St. Mary’s Counties). Afterwards, another new crossing would span the Chesapeake Bay and enter the Eastern Shore near either Cambridge or Easton. From there, it’d cut northeast into Delaware and travel most of the length of the state, hitting another metro area neglected by the current Interstate system: Dover (190k in Kent County). From here, it’s an easy route up to Wilmington/Philadelphia. If the Bridge-Tunnel complex route isn’t feasible to upgrade to Interstate standards, then perhaps this route could work instead?
Kinda cool idea but hoo-boy that’s a lot of bridges…big bridges…😮 Maryland funding bridges crossing the Potomac and the bay both at their widest points? Wild! 🙂
US 15 & 301 used to be routed on an older span over Lake Marion next to I-95. When the span fell into disrepair, the routes were moved onto 95. I'm guessing they just threw some signs together to address those changes and they haven't really updated the signs since.
@@DTD110865 I remember originally going over the Lake Marion span on I-95 back in the late 70s-early 80s and the US 15-301 span was already in real bad shape, though it was still in use. By the 80's, there were major weight restrictions.
Nice to see four US highways in Florida which go into Michigan (23, 41) and some that used to go into Michigan (25, 27). 27 was axed north of Fort Wayne, IN in 2001 and the US 27 freeway north of Lansing got renumbered US 127, after I-69 was finished south and east of Lansing in 1992. And I-75 and I-94 put an end to US 25 in Michigan in, I believe, the 1970s.
I would like to request an exit for the next video, how do I find out which video you'll be working on next? Great video by the way, I used to drive the Maryland section all the time.
You can go around it and pay $1 instead of $4. Northbound at the old weigh station in Maryland make a left , take that to tthe top sogn, go rigght, and follow it til you come to a toll plaza at Levels rd. Then make a left back onto 301
I went with Richmond since it's the biggest city we pass through, and wasn't too impressed by the list of Richmond artists. Then I remembered a buddy's band is bast out of Richmond and they rock, so that made it an easy pick for me.
As a Florida transplant, I find it funny and kinda sad that I live 3 miles from 301, but never had any idea where the road went until this video. I am also one of those people who ask "What's Lake City and why is it signed?"
Grew up right near 50/301 in MD. Got hired to relocate to Dade City, FL for six months in 2020-21… living right by US-301. Life is hilarious sometimes.
Dade City,FL, Miami-Dade County, Dade County, Missouri and Dade county, GA are all named after the same Major Francis Dade who died in the Dade Massacre in Sumter County, FL during the Seminole Indian wars. 👍
You know what's interesting? On either coast of America there is a Bay Bridge, on the West Coast in the San Francisco Bay Area there is the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and on the East Coast in the Baltimore area there is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and they are both toll bridges. This is also all compounded by the fact that these two bridges are at nearly the same latitude as one another.
In Greater Richmond, I'd rather sign US 301 for Annapolis to the north since US 301 only connects two state capitals. When we go south after a merge with US 50, I agree to sign Richmond when leaving Anne Arundel County driving south. Also, as we head east of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, I'll sign US 50 for Salisbury, MD and US 301 for Wilmington, DE.
Up until about 2001, FDOT color coded the US highway shields. There was no rhyme or reason for the colors except that the same colors would never meet. The reason FDOT dropped that scheme was because the FHWA threatened to withhold federal highway funds until they were in compliance with the MUTCD.
It’s so intriguing to see how many different interests there are in this world.
Highways are something that 98% of the world doesn’t even think about, just use, but here is a full community of people creating and watching content on it.
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“On Virginia’s side for one of two wars.” I have long suspected that there was more I liked about you than road geeking.
Thanks for referring to me by my first name for all of the requests that I had and for adding them into the video. I have a lot of fond memories driving on 95 in the middle east coast and being fascinated by its crazy relationship with 301 in both Virginia and the Carolinas. Really enjoyed the video :)
Thanks!
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Thank you!
There's a really good peanut shop there in Skippers (21:00) that is a must when traveling through southern Virginia.
27:00 thank you for mentioning my town of Easton!
2:27 Love the Riverview nod here! This exit used to be my home exit because I spent the latter half of my childhood in Riverview where I graduated high school. 301 was basically my backyard Highway while I lived there.
Oh wow. Village Inn! I used to go to the one in Manhattan quite often.
I had no idea that Village Inn had locations in Florida.
I greatly enjoyed watching this video. It brought back some wonderful memories. My family used to travel on U.S. 301 all the time back in the 90s from I-95's Virginia Exit 82 all the way up to its ORIGINAL northern terminus (prior to the new and transmogrified Potomac River Bridge).
21:30 The signs for US 301 at exit 45 were redesigned after a deadly bus crash, in 2019, where the driver mistook this exit for the I-295 exit. The exit sign at the gore point, now has a US 301 shield on it.
Awesome that you did US 301!! I can’t wait for your future videos!!
Exit 49A on I-26 in North Carolina. Bat Cave. Former truck driver who used to travel past this exit frequently.
Thanks! I already did I-26 a couple years ago and don't have any immediate plans to reboot it, but I'd be happy to let you request something different. In the community tab and the episode descriptions I always write what the upcoming roads will be.
@@ControlCityFreak I'll check that out.
@@ControlCityFreak I did used to stop at the Loves travel center along US 75 in Anna, Texas a lot...at the time, the coffee there was decent...
Cool, could add that if you want
@@ControlCityFreak that works.
Fun fact, the frontage road section of US 301 in Virginia used to be part a divided highway US 301. The current roadway used to be the southbound lanes while the northbound lanes would end up being converted to the I-95 southbound lanes.
Oh cool!
@@ControlCityFreak You should do US 64 for your next video.
@@ethanconken9471thederphog did a us 64 video alr
Tons and tons of abandoned hotels on US 301 in South Carolina because it used to be the main route to Florida before they built I-95.. It also still has a welcome center on US 301 when you enter Georgia from South Carolina, which is the oldest welcome center in the United States.
I live in Ocala, Florida and it’s a main road through our town. I would like to drive the whole thing some day.
I used to live just a couple of blocks from the southern terminus in Sarasota. Long time ago, but it seems like yesterday!
Zephyrhills is home to some pretty awesome bottled water thanks to natural springs in the area.
23:35 - VDOT wanted to encourage drivers who wish to bypass DC on 301 to continue on I-95 north to Exit 104 Carmel Church which says "VA 207 to US 301". In fact, there's a sign at the same exit that says "Last Exit for Potomac River Crossing".
16:33 I believe the reason for I-95 signing US 301 as Local Traffic here is to discourage truckers from using this stretch of 301 as a bypass of a weigh station located between the two 301 exits.
19:16 I believe NC 42 will receive a new designation shortly before I-42 becomes official, because NC 42 intersects Future I-42 in Clayton.
25:36 MD 3 has a LOT of traffic lights and development along it! It may be a shorter distance to Baltimore from this point, but 50/301 to I-97 is faster since its all freeway. I made the MD 3 mistake once going southbound. Never again!
Great video! Really enjoying your series on these great US routes. Really looking forward to seeing US 23 one of these days!
MD 3 is definitely a frustrating stretch
Pretty cool seeing the US-278 junction since I’ve been doing a US-278 series myself. South Carolina has some weird signage on that road, lol.
That was my request. I asked him specifically to refer to me by my first name and not my username because it's simpler that way.
21:36 looks like it's the right number but a bad shield -- VA-36 meets US-301 in Petersburg.
Yeah, some weirdo put US 36 shields all over Petersburg. I complain to myself every time I go down there
As someone born at Ft Bragg who has lived all but six years within 40 miles of I-95 and US-301, I have to say I was really looking forward to this video even knowing the Benson theme would fly for my dear provincial home state.
I’ve made more runs to and from Florida on I-95 than I can reckon and I can assure you with 100% certainty that South of the Border is a place so bereft of any use to anyone that you’re truly blessed you’ve never stopped at that utter eyesore tourist trap to the south of Rowland.
The only good it has ever done when the sombrero tower comes into view round the curve two miles to the south is that I know I’ll see the beloved tricoloured flag on the sign just afterward welcoming me home to where I belong! :)
The last couple of times I’ve gone past, it looks like Pedro has truly fallen on hard times. Decades ago their car parks were packed…last year on the way to Savannah, there were more tumbleweeds than cars and revenues are reportedly in the toilet.
The new Buc-Ees just north of Florence may well finally kill them off and bloody good riddance!
BTW, one of those six years was when my father did a one year tour at Ft Leavenworth and I have very fond memories of KC (we were there just before the first trip the Royals took to the World Series!).
Oh nice! Those Brett/White/Saberhagen teams were my introduction to MLB fandom
19:40 I think the Bypass/Business “label ‘em both” approach is a somewhat common thing in NC.
26:15 It was originally named due to being a parole camp for Confederate POWs, but the idea of a retirement home for people working in DC isn’t all that far off (as someone from the area).
When heading sb on 301 past MD Route 213 I found a mileage sign that list as follows
Queenstown 3
Bay Bridge 14
Washington 54
It's pretty good for MD standards especially on a non interstate highway. But the best millage sign in MD is definitely signing Richmond on I-97 almost immediately.
Oh yeah that’s a great one
17:20 "Unless otherwise posted". I suppose it saves the city from posting a thousand speed limit signs. Common signage in NC.
9:54 You had Bamberg pronounced right the first time. And be glad your only bad experience with Orangeburg is bad BBQ. I went there for a weekend in February 1973. As we drove into town, it started snowing. When it stopped 2 days later, there was 21" on the ground and drifts of 5-6 feet. We were stuck there for a week. The SC National Guard had to dig us out. That state isn't used to big snows, and certainly not in that part.
Oh wow that's rough
3:12 Does Land O’ Lakes, Florida have anything to do with the butter brand?
No. That company is from St Paul, MN.
I remember 44 years ago (yeah I'm odd) when we drove from Wilmington NC to PA and back...and back to PA 2 months later. At that time, 95 was still incomplete from near the VA NC state lines up to Petersburg and 301 carried a LOT of north-south traffic. Once in Petersburg, 95 picked up again as the Petersburg-Richmond Turnpike...decommissioned in 1992.
22:41 I didn’t know that there were any Marathon gas stations as far east as Richmond, Virginia. I typically associate that chain with Great Lakes/Ohio Valley states like Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.
I live on US 301 Richmond, VA! Yeaaaaaahhhhh!
I love this channel, love what you do, commenting for engagement
I appreciate that!
Here is a fun fact: when US 301 ended at US 40, you could access both the northern end of US 301 and southern end of US 202 on US 40. It was only separated by a few miles of each other.
@Control City Freak love the US 301 video! As a Delawarean, I need to correct you on one fact. While 301 has the only mileage based exits in the state, it is not the only highway/road that has distance based exits. DE Route 1 has kilometer based exit numbers due to a failed "Metric Highway" experiment in the 1990's
Now they just need to switch it back to mileage based exits again, and do the same for 95, 295, & 495. I remember when they were building Rte 1 in Bear... they did initially use mileage-based exits before the Metric disaster.
8:36 Not so odd, Todd. My hometown of Welland, Ontario used to have this concept, but North and South Main Streets were later renamed to Niagara and King.
I hope you can do US 84 soon! When you get to New Mexico, just north of Espanola, there’s a sign to turn right for “Medanales”. That’s my family’s hometown and my great grandma has a historical marker right off the highway there.
Still can't wait for US 1. At least we got an auxiliary route of it, so YEAH!
I did a Video on it. Though only in NC and VA
I love 301. Even though it only has a short stretch through my home state where its terminus lies, it’s useful.
I should’ve also suggested the Kenly Truck Stop which you can access from US 301. It’s pretty awesome and I recommend visiting. Also you missed a Mileage Sign where Richmond is on the bottom line at 73 miles away, right at the NC/VA Line.
It’s actually US13 that parallels DE 1 ( also DE 1 exits are based on mileage)Drove on this a lot to the Outer Banks of NC
Actually, DE-1 exits are KILOMETER based. When the toll road was first constructed, there were kilometer posts; no mile posts. Some time later, they were replaced by the MP's but the exit numbers stayed km based.
0:27 it ends in st georges delaware a few miles away from middletown delaware
I was looking for u to mention Dover, DE somewhere in it
I know about 301 in Florida due to Distant Signal and his many travels on it to hunt CSX train activity in and around the Tampa area.
The US 301-DE 1 interchange is next to US 13, not US 15.
P.S.; US 13 is kind of fun too, thanks to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
16:27 lumberton has another access road that looks like a small dirt road
I have driven on 301 a bunch of times going from Gainesville to Jax. Great shortcut
Did it once to get from Jax to St. Pete
Starke known for being 1 of the 3 speed trap towns on 301. Also known for not being too far from Raiford ,the town with the big State prison. Skynyrd wrote a song called 4 walls of Raiford. The stretch between Ocala and Jacksonville use by the people from the Tampa Bay area and Southwest Florida to get to I 95 for getting to the North East section of the country. The Starke bypass was built recently, rare for Florida but common in Pennsylvania where you have an Interstate type bypass a larger town.
At one point in the video around 23:30 you show a mileage sign that has "Hanover Co." as its nearest point. The sign should read "Hanover CH," as it is already in Hanover County. I pass that sign going to work every day, and its error annoys me.
Oh yeah that is a weird one. Didn't realize that making the vid, I'd be annoyed with it too.
US-301 is pretty much the best detour when going North to avoid the traffic on I-95 in Northern Virginia, it saves a lot of time as well.
Speaking of Ocean City, MD I always like seeing the sign on the mileage as 80 turns into 50 in Sacramento right after the I-5 and I-99 interchange.
The engineering school I went to is right next to 301, but it's concurrent with US 1 at that point, so it sounds cooler to say I took classes next to US 1 than US 301.
Lol
301 in Florida is an infamous speed trap.
For the Baysox, it's not BOW-ie, it's BOO-ie.
Aw man I wanted to hear Suffragette City at the Baysox
I live in Cullman AL. And US 278 is the main east-west highway through the city. So it's cool to see a sign for it so so far away. Ha ha.
Dade City reminds me of Yanceyville in North Carolina as far as cities and counties not matching up. Yanceyville is in Caswell County in north central North Carolina but Yancey County is in north west NC in the mountains close to Tennessee.
US 36 eastern terminus is in Ohio. In Ohio, State Route 31 in Marysville has a U.S. shield just past the new roundabout north of town. Happens here a lot.
My favorite error is in Hamilton where they have OH-129 displayed with a US shield, but instead of it being a sign they actually painted it into the street. How they got that wrong is beyond me.
That new bridge over the Potomac River was desperately needed. The old bridge was really old and severely rusted over (it was 82 years old when the new bridge opened) . It was only a single lane in each direction which would cause traffic congestion at the merge points on each side of the bridge, It's been almost two years since the replacement bridge was opened, surprised Google Street View hasn't been back over it yet for an update.
The turnpike in FL is very weird. It seems no matter where u are it always sign the Southbound sign as Miami
Looking at the route east of Washington gives me an idea for a potential Interstate Route that bypasses both Washington and Baltimore that doesn’t involve going through the full length of the Delmarva Peninsula. It’ll also bring an Interstate to two metro areas that currently aren’t served by the system in any capacity I’m going to compile a full list relatively soon (excluding Alaska and Hawaii for reasons that I think should be obvious), so think of this as a “sneak peek” of sorts.
My route would branch off from 64 between Richmond and the Hampton Roads, cut across the several peninsulas divided by the James, York and Rappahannock Rivers before utilizing a new Potomac crossing to enter Maryland and serve the California/Lexington Park area from the south/southwest (there’s a decent sized urban area spanning both banks of the Patuxent River, and 210k across the metro area spanning Calvert and St. Mary’s Counties).
Afterwards, another new crossing would span the Chesapeake Bay and enter the Eastern Shore near either Cambridge or Easton. From there, it’d cut northeast into Delaware and travel most of the length of the state, hitting another metro area neglected by the current Interstate system: Dover (190k in Kent County). From here, it’s an easy route up to Wilmington/Philadelphia.
If the Bridge-Tunnel complex route isn’t feasible to upgrade to Interstate standards, then perhaps this route could work instead?
Kinda cool idea but hoo-boy that’s a lot of bridges…big bridges…😮
Maryland funding bridges crossing the Potomac and the bay both at their widest points? Wild! 🙂
29:25 should be Wilmington & Philadelphia
2 weeks in a row with the Benson theme!
US 15 & 301 used to be routed on an older span over Lake Marion next to I-95. When the span fell into disrepair, the routes were moved onto 95. I'm guessing they just threw some signs together to address those changes and they haven't really updated the signs since.
Actually, if you look through Google Street View, they had better signage of the overlap of US 15 and 301 in Santee, but they just let it fall apart.
@@DTD110865 I remember originally going over the Lake Marion span on I-95 back in the late 70s-early 80s and the US 15-301 span was already in real bad shape, though it was still in use. By the 80's, there were major weight restrictions.
@@DTD110865 also probably help that SC DOT doesn't have much of a budget compared to most states.
US 98 is signed north/south in the entirety of the Florida peninsula. The switch happens when 98 meets 19/27 in Perry, FL
It's east-west further south too. It's weird
Nice to see four US highways in Florida which go into Michigan (23, 41) and some that used to go into Michigan (25, 27). 27 was axed north of Fort Wayne, IN in 2001 and the US 27 freeway north of Lansing got renumbered US 127, after I-69 was finished south and east of Lansing in 1992. And I-75 and I-94 put an end to US 25 in Michigan in, I believe, the 1970s.
US-13, not US-15 at the end!
D'oh!
17:16 so did you just not bother to read the green sign or did you ignore the words on purpose…
Ohh niceeee more US highways i love it🔥🔥
25:20 where the likes of Gunnar Henderson, Adley Rutschman, Grayson Rodriguez, Jackson Holliday played before getting the call up.
I think I nearly have this entire highway 100% clinched. The only sections I haven't driven it are in Virginia and North Carolina that go along I-95.
Mind if I use your video in my US 258 video
Sure as long as I get a mention and/or link
It doesn't join before that exit 107 in nc
17:20 To be fair they do say “unless otherwise posted”
Any plans for doing US-30 anytime soon? 👀
Plans, but no time soon.
I would like to request an exit for the next video, how do I find out which video you'll be working on next? Great video by the way, I used to drive the Maryland section all the time.
Check the community tab or the description of this video for upcoming vids
28:42 is US 13 not 15
My interstate hero! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
15:05 I stayed there back in 2022 and I enjoyed my overnight stay.
My grandparents used to live in Ocala fl but my grandfather's health isn't the best so they moved up here in NC to be closer to family
I'd like to see you do us 15 in New York State route 17
Wilmington’s so nice on US-301 it should get signed twice
You can go around it and pay $1 instead of $4. Northbound at the old weigh station in Maryland make a left , take that to tthe top sogn, go rigght, and follow it til you come to a toll plaza at Levels rd. Then make a left back onto 301
Nice!
was hoping to hear Statesboro Blues by the Allman Brothers!
I went with Richmond since it's the biggest city we pass through, and wasn't too impressed by the list of Richmond artists. Then I remembered a buddy's band is bast out of Richmond and they rock, so that made it an easy pick for me.
As a Florida transplant, I find it funny and kinda sad that I live 3 miles from 301, but never had any idea where the road went until this video.
I am also one of those people who ask "What's Lake City and why is it signed?"
Grew up right near 50/301 in MD. Got hired to relocate to Dade City, FL for six months in 2020-21… living right by US-301.
Life is hilarious sometimes.
17:15 The Speed Limit is 55 because the sign says "Citywide Speed Limit 35 UNLESS OTHERWISE POSTED."
I love this road favorite 3di us highway
Dade City,FL, Miami-Dade County, Dade County, Missouri and Dade county, GA are all named after the same Major Francis Dade who died in the Dade Massacre in Sumter County, FL during the Seminole Indian wars.
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Nice to see Robert Guillaume remembered again.
Amazing actor, badly missed. Hopefully having a good afterlife.
US-6?
You know what's interesting? On either coast of America there is a Bay Bridge, on the West Coast in the San Francisco Bay Area there is the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and on the East Coast in the Baltimore area there is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and they are both toll bridges. This is also all compounded by the fact that these two bridges are at nearly the same latitude as one another.
both carried US 50 before it was truncated in West Sacramento
The towers of the original suspension bridges both have X lattice work
@@BeltwayLandLion Thus it makes sense why there is a connection between these two bridges and metro areas both literally and figuratively.
In Greater Richmond, I'd rather sign US 301 for Annapolis to the north since US 301 only connects two state capitals. When we go south after a merge with US 50, I agree to sign Richmond when leaving Anne Arundel County driving south. Also, as we head east of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, I'll sign US 50 for Salisbury, MD and US 301 for Wilmington, DE.
Up until about 2001, FDOT color coded the US highway shields. There was no rhyme or reason for the colors except that the same colors would never meet. The reason FDOT dropped that scheme was because the FHWA threatened to withhold federal highway funds until they were in compliance with the MUTCD.
Oh yeah I remember the green US 92 signs in St. Pete
If they did they were gone before then. I was in Florida in 1999 and I know I didn't see any.
They were starting to do away with them in the late 80s. My uncle worked for FDOT and has a bunch of those old signs.
Will you do US 1?
Can you do U.S. 224?
No immediate plans for it
Delaware state highway one has kilometer exits
I-42 is already signed on google maps
hopefully US route 90 can be covered on this channel
“US 36” - mistaken use of US shield for a Virginia route?
Yeah. It seems like Virginia is getting in on the Error Shields lately.
Virginia localities have this habit of using wrong shields, apparently when the correct shield is unavailable.
I am confused about 2 things.
First, that US 36 sign. And secondly, you didn't even mention that giant shoe!!
28:40 I am going to assume that you saying "US 15 is to the right" is a mistake
Now 301 has a toll in Delaware? Yet another for me to avoid.