{"items": [{"author": "Kiran", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764946888182", "anchor": "fb-764946888182", "service": "fb", "text": "That legislator was the very essence of evil.", "timestamp": "1451723232"}, {"author": "Jeremy", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764948934082", "anchor": "fb-764948934082", "service": "fb", "text": "I-99 is the most flagrant offender, but not the only violation of the standard Interstate numbering protocols. While you're in CA, check out I-238. In fact, the numbering system for federal highways has been politicized since even before the creation of the original US Numbered Highway System in 1926: see the second half of this history https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/numbers.cfm.", "timestamp": "1451724450"}, {"author": "Mycroft", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764997970812", "anchor": "fb-764997970812", "service": "fb", "text": "I may not be up on \u201cnew math\u201d, but I'm pretty sure I-94 isn't divisible by 5, and is still a major highway, and longer than any of I-5, I-15, I-20, I-25, I-30, I-35, I-45, I-55, I-65, or I-85.  (It was merely the first one that came to mind, because I've driven it.  I-64 is also longer than some of them.)  I-45 isn't even actually interstate.", "timestamp": "1451740103"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764999527692", "anchor": "fb-764999527692", "service": "fb", "text": "I think that \"major highways\" are considered coast to coast or border to border, and I-94 I don't think is either.  Don't know about I-45, not sure where that is.", "timestamp": "1451741723"}, {"author": "Mycroft", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764999527692&reply_comment_id=764999552642", "anchor": "fb-764999527692_764999552642", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Quite a few of the ones divisible by 5 are neither.", "timestamp": "1451741761"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764999527692&reply_comment_id=765000241262", "anchor": "fb-764999527692_765000241262", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Interesting.", "timestamp": "1451742014"}, {"author": "Mycroft", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764999527692&reply_comment_id=765001922892", "anchor": "fb-764999527692_765001922892", "service": "fb", "text": "→ TBH, none of this is even vaguely interesting.  I merely point out that the alleged \u201crules\u201d don't match reality.", "timestamp": "1451743901"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764999607532", "anchor": "fb-764999607532", "service": "fb", "text": "Also of interstate note: we here in Maryland have the shortest 2-digit interstate in the nation (I-97, just 17 miles long from Baltimore to Annapolis).  And there are two of some interstates.  There is an I-88 in New York and and I-88 in Illinois,  but they do not connect.  Interestingly, I-95 is not continuous for its entirety either - it is broken up in New Jersey.", "timestamp": "1451741897"}, {"author": "Jess", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764999607532&reply_comment_id=765009382942", "anchor": "fb-764999607532_765009382942", "service": "fb", "text": "→ That NJ section of I-95 is a major important artery yet is the most unintuitive piece of the interstate system.", "timestamp": "1451747865"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764999607532&reply_comment_id=765012466762", "anchor": "fb-764999607532_765012466762", "service": "fb", "text": "→ The 95 gap is being worked on; see https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Interstate_95_Interchange...", "timestamp": "1451750364"}, {"author": "Jess", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764999607532&reply_comment_id=765022666322", "anchor": "fb-764999607532_765022666322", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Awesome links Jeff, thanks.", "timestamp": "1451753713"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764999607532&reply_comment_id=765022736182", "anchor": "fb-764999607532_765022736182", "service": "fb", "text": "→ (It's been being \"worked on\" for decades, but now it really does look like it's actually happening.)", "timestamp": "1451753811"}, {"author": "Jess", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764999607532&reply_comment_id=765023958732", "anchor": "fb-764999607532_765023958732", "service": "fb", "text": "→ On the canceled Somerset Freeway that was supposed to be the original connection: \"...residents in Hopewell Township, Princeton, and Montgomery Township raised opposition out of the fear the Somerset Freeway would bring unwanted development to area farmland. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority joined environmental and community groups in opposing the Somerset Freeway, as it would provide a toll-free alternative to the New Jersey Turnpike.[30][31] Due to this opposition, New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne announced in 1980 that the state would not build the Somerset Freeway\".  Lovely...  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_95_in_New_Jersey...", "timestamp": "1451754568"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764999607532&reply_comment_id=765024143362", "anchor": "fb-764999607532_765024143362", "service": "fb", "text": "→ \"The New Jersey Turnpike Authority joined environmental and community groups\" sounds baptists and bootleggers to me!", "timestamp": "1451754657"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=764999607532&reply_comment_id=765142610952", "anchor": "fb-764999607532_765142610952", "service": "fb", "text": "→ You would think that all they would need to do is sign I-195 as 95 also and then when that hooks up with the Turnpike, make that 95 going north.  There are probably reasons for them not doing this.", "timestamp": "1451827110"}, {"author": "Jess", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=765009712282", "anchor": "fb-765009712282", "service": "fb", "text": "Also worth noting that if I-99 was long enough to deserve two-digit number (which it's currently not), there just aren't any odd numbers between 79 and 81.  It's easy to imagine a future route that runs continuously from Rochester, NY through to the bottom of I-99 (currently comprising parts of I-390, I-86, PA-15, and I-80).  In the case, I think the stretch would be long enough to qualify for a two-digit number, in which case I-99 wouldn't be an unreasonable choice.  Perhaps the congressman was just farsighted (ha!).", "timestamp": "1451748266"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=765009712282&reply_comment_id=765142665842", "anchor": "fb-765009712282_765142665842", "service": "fb", "text": "→ It's longer than I-97.  ;)", "timestamp": "1451827160"}, {"author": "Daniel", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/764945795372?comment_id=765103828672", "anchor": "fb-765103828672", "service": "fb", "text": "Also worth noting: I-99 is the only \"interstate\" I've ever had an entire Sheetz hoagie (or, to be fair, a sub, grinder or hero of any completeness or brand) exit someone else's car at highway speed and go \"splat\" on my windshield.", "timestamp": "1451790907"}]}