todays 10 questions

[CBulla]

I've always liked; "Why does Hawaii have an Insterstate Highway?"

:rofl:

I was trying to be intelligent to my wife and pointed out a sign in a video about Hawaii to my wife... "oooahhhoie!" I says.. she looked at me and said "You moron, thats 'LOOK OUT POINT'..." I've since shut up while watching the travel channel.

 

[JaxvilleDiver]

Good list! Thanks...needed some comic relief with Frances out here on the coast.

 

[The Wanderer]

I've always liked; "Why does Hawaii have an Insterstate Highway?"

True answer.... by calling it an "Interstate" Hawaii gets Federal funding to help finance the construction.

 

[SueMermaid]

Did Adam and Eve have navels?

 

[The Wanderer]

Did Adam and Eve have navels?

LOL - Orange you funny

 

[ScubaHawk]

True answer.... by calling it an "Interstate" Hawaii gets Federal funding to help finance the construction.

Or the reverse, the have to call it an Interstate because they get federal funding. Got to love a government at work. But that still brings me back to Why?

 

[Kriterian]

I've always liked; "Why does Hawaii have an Insterstate Highway?"

We have President Eisenhower to thank for that. In 1960 he signed the "Hawaii Omnibus Act" which removed the stipulation the Federal Interstate Highway Law that requires the Interstate system to be used only within "continental United States."

He did this because the BPR (Bureau of Public Roads) studied the need for a highway in Hawaii and Alaska. They looked at everything from national defense to servicing industry, fishing, agriculture, mining etc and suggested a 50 mile network of roads.

Also the designation Interstate highway goes beyond just connecting states. It's also a design plan with highways built to contain high amounts of traffic safely and efficiently.

You'll also note that they are labeled with an H instead of an I (H-1, H-2, H-3 etc) which shows they are different types of roads. Alaska (A-1, A-2 etc) and Puerto Rico (PRI-1, PRI-2) also have these roads.



PS: Not trying to be condescending butt-much here, just thought people might like to know an interesting bit of trivia.

 

[ScubaHawk]

Thank You. Now that you bring it up, I actually remember reading that somewhere, of course that was many years and many bottles of rum ago

 

[Fly N Dive]

I promise if anyone did this in my yard I would set fireworks off in the direction of the helicopter. Then maybe let out the dogs.

yea, but then you would get in trouble for having fireworks in MA, rocks work just as well and last time i checked they were legal to own