To call the Boulder/Denver turnpike a US highway is a fucking joke.

[CrispyQ]

We should be ashamed that we tolerate this! We can finance never ending war, but you can't drive safely from Boulder to Denver.

The entire length from Boulder to Denver is under construction. Each way, the two narrow lanes are hemmed in with cement barriers, with no shoulders, no room for error at all. They are adding one new lane each way, both of which will be overfilled the first hour they open, & turning the center into a car pool lane. If I had to drive that to get to work I would move or find another job.

[Fred Sanders]

1. Why bother fixing the roads when the End of Days is nigh? Blame the lack of a secular government.

[blkmusclmachine]

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[DavidDvorkin]

3. "US Highway" has a very limited meaning and always has

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Numbered_Highways

As the designation and numbering of these highways were coordinated among the states, they are sometimes called Federal Highways, but the roadways have always been maintained by state or local governments since their initial designation in 1926.