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I moved to California when I was 12. For me I-5 was always the “mother road”. Drove up and down it for a lifetime.
Even when I lived in Vancouver, Canada I-5 was just south of town and across the border!!
Lots of memories of driving I-5 over 40 years. It is a hard highway to avoid if you live on the west coast. I have NEVER lived closer than a 100 miles to it, except in CANADA....yet, I travel it EVERY year. AND that is with trying real hard to avoid since it goes through California.
So it I-95 part of the “mother road” experience on the east coast?? It is part of the fabric of the west coast...so much so that most people do not realize how special the road.
I moved to California when I was 12. For me I-5 was always the “mother road”. Drove up and down it for a lifetime.
Even when I lived in Vancouver, Canada I-5 was just south of town and across the border!!
Lots of memories of driving I-5 over 40 years. It is a hard highway to avoid if you live on the west coast. I have NEVER lived closer than a 100 miles to it, except in CANADA....yet, I travel it EVERY year. AND that is with trying real hard to avoid since it goes through California.
So it I-95 part of the “mother road” experience on the east coast?? It is part of the fabric of the west coast...so much so that most people do not realize how special the road.
Actually, I’d say I-95 is more of a mother road than I-5. The SF Bay Area is far and away the second largest CSA on the West Coast and I-5 doesn’t go through it or anywhere near it. In fact, it’s about 30-40 miles from the closest Bay Area exurbs and about 70 miles from SF/Oakland. So people from the Bay Area are not using I-5 regularly at all.
I-95 goes through or within 10-20 miles of virtually every major city on the East Coast.
I moved to California when I was 12. For me I-5 was always the “mother road”. Drove up and down it for a lifetime.
Even when I lived in Vancouver, Canada I-5 was just south of town and across the border!!
Lots of memories of driving I-5 over 40 years. It is a hard highway to avoid if you live on the west coast. I have NEVER lived closer than a 100 miles to it, except in CANADA....yet, I travel it EVERY year. AND that is with trying real hard to avoid since it goes through California.
So it I-95 part of the “mother road” experience on the east coast?? It is part of the fabric of the west coast...so much so that most people do not realize how special the road.
I would say 95 is definitely the bigger and more important mother-road, but also that I-90, the longest interstate in the U.S., from Boston to Seattle, is the mother-of-all mother roads in the U.S.
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Actually, I’d say I-95 is more of a mother road than I-5. The SF Bay Area is far and away the second largest CSA on the West Coast and I-5 doesn’t go through it or anywhere near it. In fact, it’s about 30-40 miles from the closest Bay Area exurbs and about 70 miles from SF/Oakland. So people from the Bay Area are not using I-5 regularly at all.
I-95 goes through or within 10-20 miles of virtually every major city on the East Coast.
Agreed. I-95 literally goes into city limits of Miami, Jacksonville, Richmond, DC, Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, NYC, Providence, and Boston. Really is no comparison.
Agreed. I-95 literally goes into city limits of Miami, Jacksonville, Richmond, DC, Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, NYC, Providence, and Boston. Really is no comparison.
95 doesn't go into Boston am pretty sure but close, same with DC doesn't 95 miss DC proper?
95 doesn't go into Boston am pretty sure but close, same with DC doesn't 95 miss DC proper?
If you want to get really technical about it, I-95 clips the extreme southeastern corner of DC, right when it crosses over the Potomac River. Blink and you'll miss it. For all practical purposes, it does not enter the city proper. But the Washington Monument is easily visible when you cross the river.
So it I-95 part of the “mother road” experience on the east coast?? It is part of the fabric of the west coast...so much so that most people do not realize how special the road.
If you live on the East Coast, and you have a car, it is a virtual guarantee that you will have used I-95 many, many times during the course of your life. Between local commuting, and regional getaways, and the rite-of-passage road trip to Florida, I-95 is an inescapable part of life here.
It is certainly the "mother road" for me. I have lived my entire life, 53 years and counting, within about 5 miles of that highway, in 4 different states. For the past 19 years, I've lived about a mile away from it. At night in the winter, when the leaves are down and the house is quiet, I can faintly hear the traffic sound from it. I find it calming, like the noise of a river.
I would say 95 is definitely the bigger and more important mother-road, but also that I-90, the longest interstate in the U.S., from Boston to Seattle, is the mother-of-all mother roads in the U.S.
Thanks for all the comments...learned some new things.
What I mean by the "mother" road is that it is part of the fabric of your life. In the my early years, in the SF Bay Area...the mother road was US 101. But over time, I moved to Vancouver, BC. Had business trip up and down I-5. So I got pretty much to know the entire interstate.
Also I-5 is the ONLY snow-free interstate on the west coast, except for a short stretch in California (4hrs). So everybody takes it in winter.
I-90 on the other hand...I live 40 miles from it. Spent a LOT of time driving it in eastern Washington to Montana. Even went to Seattle a few times.....but I have NO INTEREST in traveling I-90 past the Dakotas.
So it isn't the mother road.....more like part of the family I never met.
Here is a funny post on I-90 in Idaho.......the "final link".
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