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In Nashville, there's a sign over I-24 pointing to St. Louis which seems rather odd, since I-24 doesn't go to St. Louis and there's a lot more communities (Clarkesville, Paducah) between the two cities.
Somewhere in Kansas City, there's a sign pointing to Denver. Again, I find this odd since the entire state of Kansas separates Missouri from Colorado.
On the exit ramp from I-285 to I-75 South next to the Atlanta Airport, the sign points to TAMPA -- rather than Macon, the next largest Georgia city on the route. Yet, when you get to the outskirts of Macon, the sign over the 475 bypass around the city doesn't say TAMPA or make any Florida reference at all. Instead, it simply says Valdosta. As a result, many through-travelers to Florida make the mistake of staying on I-75 and going right through central Macon. I've seen it countless times.
In Savannah, all the signs directing travelers to NB I-95 indicate that's the way to FLORENCE, SC ... a minor city in the state yet the only one of any size that's directly on the interstate. No matter that it's also the way you'd go to get to Charleston or Columbia or Hilton Head Island.
SB I-95 signs indicate Brunswick, GA and Jacksonville. As you cross the Florida state line, you see the first reference to Miami: 380 miles
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With all the back-and-forth traffic between the NW cities and South Florida that travels I-95 through Georgia, they might as well say "NYC" NB and "Miami" SB. I don't think anybody would be confused.
When I lived in Chicago, I was always fascinated by the signage to take I-57 south to Memphis, 532 miles away.
But there seriously aren't any other major cities directly south of Chicago, weird.
What makes that odd is that Illinois often uses its own small towns as control cities, like Effingham and Jacksonville, but somehow Champaign/Urbana is ignored despite being much larger than towns like those.
Anyway, I think the farthest away you'll see Pittsburgh as a control city is in Harrisburg on the Pennsylvania Turnpike (200 miles), and Erie on I-79 (120 miles). And the farthest away you'll see Athens, GA as a control city is on I-85 at GA 316 in metro Atlanta (50 miles).
When I lived in Chicago, I was always fascinated by the signage to take I-57 south to Memphis, 532 miles away.
But there seriously aren't any other major cities directly south of Chicago, weird.
I was shocked to see that too -- like the two cities were closer together than I originally thought! But like you say, I-57 really doesn't connect much else besides those two cities, and it's kind of amazing that they connect at all!
And that I-57 drive is LONNNNG too. I think they should change that to a major city in Illinois ON I-57 like Champaigne or something.
The DC metro area has a little sign on the shoulder that says New York-Philadelphia follow I-95. But the overhead doesn't say many cities that is far away. I guess maybe Richmond for 95? I know in Baltimore, you will start seeing signs for New York.
I always thought it was different because along the expressways and tollways in Chicago you have signs that list destinations as :
IOWA
WISCONSIN
INDIANA
NORTHWEST SUBURBS
WESTERN SUBURBS
CHICAGO LOOP
The one that always stands out to me is where the Kennedy and the Edens meet and you suddenly have 5 lanes coming together and just as you crest the little hill there's a sign that spread out over all 5 lanes saying CHICAGO LOOP with arrows pointing ahead and then bam, the entire Chicago skyline from the Northwest rises up in front of you as if on cue. The first time I came into the city I remember saying "wow", and it was funny cause when I brough friends/parents into town and we went that way they all muttered "wow".
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