I-77 choices
Would like to know your experiences with I-77 through West Virginia pulling a 5er. Going to Commerce, Georgia. Other alternative is I-75 to Knoxville pick up I-40 Thoughts on your experience wi...
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Allworth wrote:
Interstate is Interstate.
There are Federal design limits on grades, curves, lane widths, and bridge clearances. What you see at home is what you get anywhere else.
I spent years doing highway design and construction and there is no way around the FHWA rules when you are dealing with Interstates.
Not necessarily true.....You travel I 26 from Johnson/Kingsport TN and it is ROUGH....You travel 26 just about anywhere else and it's smooth...Travel I 77 in northern WV, its ROUGH, drive it from border to about Beckley and it's SMOOTH....some interstates are in better shape than others...
not all the same...some have three lanes of highway going up some long steep grades, some don't...some have three lanes going down long grades...some down...that blanket statement about "what you see is what you get" depends on how well they've been maintained..just a fact:)
