17:17 All the mentions of OH2, but OH7 is also a very interesting route (along with it being the longest in the state). Very funky road with a lot of plans for buildup.
Coudersport is pronounced Cow-dersport. I lived in Emporium which is in Cameron County the smallest county pop wise in Pa. Coudersport, Smethport and Port Allegheny are all around 20 to 25 miles away.
Couple of requests for US 40, first for the interchange with US 24 in the great city of LIMON!!! Second, for downtown Granby Colorado, as well as the interchange with US 34 nearby, there was a guy who went on a bulldozer rampage through town there back in 2004
28:54 - The sign of Bear Mountain Bridge makes it appear that the bridge is part of a New York parkway. I have walked across this bridge from Ft.Montgomery, NY. Bear Mountain Bridge is the lowest elevation along the A.T. (sea level)
The traffic circle at the entrance to the Bear Mountain Bridge is at the end of the Palisades Interstate Parkway which starts at the George Washington Bridge.
18:05 Linesville, which is right by Pymatuning Lake, is home of the local “legendary” Linesville Spillway, where “the ducks walk on the fish.” 18:12 And Conneaut Lake is home of the now defunct Conneaut Lake Park, one of the very few free admission amusement parks.
Generally, in MA, "A" routes represent former routings. So MA 1A contains former routings of US 1, MA 2A is former routings of MA 2, and so on. Thus, MA 6A is the former routing of US 6 through Cape Cod before the freeway/Super 2 was built. Also, totally random note, I once had an ice cream sandwich in Sandwich! It was delicious.
8:05 Ligonier! That's where my grandmother grew up and it's something she talks about a lot so its kind of a special place in my heart for that Also 36:05 Plymouth is where my girlfriend is from and she said she got confused about the exit numbers on US-6 going to Cape Cod. I explained the numbers were mileage from RI and she was like "why would anyone take Route 6 to RI when 195 (or 495 to 95) is faster?" And I said "you're right, but the road still goes there and mileage is based off that"
Enjoyed this as a PA native that's traveled most of 6 in PA. Tidioute > Tid-ee-youte Tionesta > Ty-o-nesta or Ty-nesta (I've heard and used both) - Tionesta is the county seat of Forest County, a county without a full fledged traffic light
Love it. Tid-e-yoot. Tie-on-esta. Both towns are marked for various reasons. Tionesta is the de facto seat of Forest Co. Tidioute is marked as last major town of Warren Co. Both towns in 1900 had populations in the thousands for logging for Pittsburgh. Tidioute had a population of 3500 at the time. Tidioute's nail in the coffin was a fire in the 70s wiping half the center of town out.
Never got the time to make a request, but glad to see the U. S 6/44 split from I-84 in Connecticut. (32:47) Westbound U.S 44 leads back into East Hartford where my family's old home was, while East 6/44's route into Manchester goes to my cousin's old house, so I've seen this interchange a lot.
I have a request for 376 and the PA 576 interchange. Kind of a brag. I was in Fayette County, PA, visiting my family in 2021. The day I flew back home to Portland was the day that the full length 576 toll road opened. It's a shortcut to one of your favorite control cities, "Washington Pa." I got to drive the entire route on day one.
8:55 I know of Bryan, Ohio from the label on the back of the Etch-A-Sketch I used to have! (It’s where Ohio Art, the company that used to make them, is based.)
27:12 - Thanks for showing this 3-state monument. I want to go there. I have been to the Mason-Dixon arc-corner monument (Delaware/Pennsylvania) near Newark, Delaware.
6:26 technically, the roadway name does change from 159th to 162nd somewhere in Harvey (around South Suburban College) .... in part because of the roadway shifts south at the I-57 and Tri-State Tollway interchanges (as both interstates are angled, so US 6 is also angled to make the cloverleaf interchanges pretty much square).
9:51 I wonder if this wasn't the old long abandoned line that ran from Jackson, MI. to Franklin, OH that was run by Conrail last till the 80s or early 90s.
Exit request for I-376 - exit 67 PA 121 westbound has my (and Bill Cower's) hometown - Crafton, PA but is shown on westbound only. I-376 used to be PA 60 from I-80 to Us 22/30, then US 22/30 until I-79, then I-279 from I-79 through Pittsburgh with I-376 starting from I-279 in downtown. Penndot changed it circa 2009 because they wanted the entire roadway to be signed as an interstate. As a result the interstates don't follow the three digit interstate rules.
Idk if my comment made it, or it got deleted. But i have one more request, well more like a building request. To the left of Exit 67 For PA-121. There's a gold windowed building. It looks very cool, but you can imagine driving past in in very sunny weather 🌞🌞
Hey Todd thanks for highlighting my requests! I had to add a really big blurb about Public Square (where Tower City is located) in Cleveland. It’s actually the start of many routes, both US and state routes: Leaving WB on Superior is the start of US 42 and OH-3. Leaving EB on Superior is the start of US 322 (concurrent with US 6) Leaving SB on Ontario is the start of US 422, OH 8, OH 14, OH 43 (not signed until Miles Ave), OH 87 and historically US 21. Leaving SE on Euclid Ave: US 20. Historically US 6 and US 20 continued to be concurrent until the intersection in East Cleveland and Euclid was ALT US 6 and ALT US 20 up to that point. There used to be some cool old school signs at the intersection that had most of the routes but they were removed when through traffic was removed through the center of Public Square. Fun fact: US 6 and US 20 are the only continuous routes through Public Square.
The freeway that US 6 is on in NY State just west of the Thruway is the eastern end of the NY 17 (Future I-86) Quickway. Also, it’s pronounced MAYO-pack. In Bristol, there is a turnoff for CT 229 that will take you to ESPN and Lake Compounce, the oldest continuously operating amusement park. Continue past ESPN, and you hit my hometown of Southington.
Know rte 6 since I go to cape cod baseball games during summer. Exit 85 is the quickest way to get to Chatham the elbow part of the Cape and home to a cape cod team. Ballpark near the center 38:02 exit goes to Orleans cape cod league stadium 38:09 I believe that's the Orleans rotary that the 1st exit goes to 6a to another rotary which splits 6a with ma 28 all the way to Chatham and the 180 degree goes all the way to Ptown
I grew up in Fremont Ohio. There is a cedar point sign on US 20/US 6. There is also a sign for Lake Erie Islands and the Turnpike, both of which you have to exit from the Fremont Bypass to SR 53. I would also sign fremont from BG. The Fremont area has a decent population and is the between city between Blowing Green and Sandusky.
Thank you Todd for another great episode, totally forgot to make a request but glad you got 38:11 in since I believe that is the Start/End of Route 28 from that point all the way up to the NH lakes region!
Right on the Orleans rotary as I think it concurrent with 6A then splits off as you drive down to Chatham then westward. The Cape has quite a few traffic circles
Very familiar with a lot of those Connecticut junctions/intersections on US-6, particularly the Bristol one (currently live there near ESPN HQ, which between US-6 and I-84).
Todd, are you planning to cover Ohio route 2? Are you planning to cover US-19? How soon? I might want to buy requests for 2 of the charging stations I’ve used for most of my electric car road trips.
Was just in Kendallville, IN yesterday, so drove US-6 from I-79 there (didn’t even realize it was US-6 at first)!!😂 US-6 is one of those roads you’re always “crossing” when driving around interstates! Although, I’ve apparently driven more US-6 than I realized!! Like to Wyalusing, PA (it is in the middle of nowhere!😮) Sorry I didn’t make a request.😢 And in NY, used to ride the Palisades Pkwy to Bear Mountain Bridge as the Grandparents lived up that way. 👵Thanks!
US 6 and US 24 go well over 1,000 miles between their Colorado and Ohio intersections. I wonder if there are any roads who are apart for a longer stretch in between meetings.
Closest I used to live to 6 was back in Illinois as it goes along the Illinois River. When it's in Morris, Illinois, I used to live up the road in Yorkville, Illinois.
I have only been on PA and NY portions of U.S. 6 Been on hear mountain bridge Between Honesdale and Hawley(White mills, Charles street ) my Residence from 1998-2019 Honesdale's claim to fame: Richard Bernhard Smith, American composer who wrote the lyrics to Winter Wonderland
You should look at Unclecoolie Productions Video about US 6, its 8 Hours Long and goes Westbound, they filmed it back in August. +The Historic US 6 From Bishop to Long Beach
Here in Connecticut when I-84 and US 6 are concurrent, they ALWAYS mention I-84, and US 6 gets lost in the shuffle. The only time we see US 6 is when it "exits itself".
My list for this segment of U.S. 6 Eastbound is quite dense, which I expected seeing how it parallels Interstates a lot more frequently in this section. But I don’t think I expected it to be this big. Moline-Geneseo-Annawan-Sheffield-Princeton-Peru-Ottawa-Seneca-Morris-Joliet-Tinley Park-Hammond-Portage-Westville-Walkerton-Bremen-Nappanee-Ligonier-Kendallville-Waterloo-Butler-Edgerton-Napoleon-Bowling Green-Fremont-Sandusky-Huron-Vermilion-Lorain-Avon Lake-Cleveland-Euclid-Chardon-Andover-Conneaut Lake-Meadville-Mill Village-Union City-Corry-Warren-Kane-Smethport-Port Allegany-Coudersport-Wellsboro-Mansfield-Towanda-Meshoppen-Tunkhannock-Factoryville-Scranton-Carbondale-Honesdale-Milford-Matamoras/Port Jervis-Middletown-Goshen-Kiryas Joel-Peekskill-Mahopac-Brewster-Danbury-Newtown-Southbury-Woodbury-Watertown-Thomaston-Bristol-Hartford-Manchester-Willimantic-Danielson-Providence-East Providence-Fall River-New Bedford-Wareham-Barnstable-Orleans-Provincetown As much as you hyped up Pennsylvania being cringe for its segment of 6, I’m not sure it was warranted as much as, say, I 80 through the center of the state. I’d probably say that the worst signed area is at that circle in the heart of Cleveland, where all the U.S. routes seem to converge. In my hometown, there are quite a lot of roundabouts, and coming into most of them are diagram signs showing the roads that are a part of the roundabout intersection. And the exits off of the roundabouts mostly have street names to help with directions. Something similar should be employed at that circle in question.
This has to be your best episode to date! We get to revisit the "worst" I-180, and make a 2nd visit to Rhode Island, the smallest state. Shortly after crossing the Providence River (at 34:45), US 6 (and I-195) cross the Seekonk River on the Washington Bridge. That bridge has unfortunately suffered irreparable structural damage, requiring eventual demolition and replacement. 3 lanes of traffic "squeeze by" in both directions here right now, but it's now a traffic "choke point" for those traveling between NYC and Cape Cod.
Princeton ILLINOIS used to be the eastern end of US 32 before 6 got expanded from Erie Pennsylvania to Greeley Colorado in 1931 , replacing US 32 and US 38
Hyannis is, like, THE city on Cape Cod lol so I feel like you gotta keep it on the roster of control cities. And don't worry too much about trying to pronounce those cities in Massachusetts lol. The pronunciations can be chaotic. They'll truly look one way and sound completely different! (My husband is from Cape Cod and I've been up there to visit the area lots of times!)
5:03 I can't wait til he does the I-294 video .... my old stomping grounds. The Tri-State Tollway has been upgraded SEVERAL times over the 30 years that I've been a driver ... and over the 40(ish) years that I've been reading maps ... so I know of ALL the past/ongoing/currently scheduled future changes .... it's a LOT different 😂😂
I'm pretty positive I've gotten off the Tri-State at EVERY exit on the tollway from O'Hare all the way SOUTHWARD over to 80/94 at some point in my life.
I know of Princeton, IL, from a customer who lived there that was a regular at the store I worked at in Schaumburg, which is a northwest suburb of Chicago, so not what you'd call a short trip. Otherwise, the only real interactions I have with US-6 are regularly passing the interchange with I-39.
I live close to US 6 in PA, so I can help you out with the pronunciation of Wyalusing & Tunkhannock. Wyalusing(Y-ah-loo-sing), & Tunkhannock(Tunk-han-nock). I'm surprised you got Meshoppen right off the bat, unfortunately a lot of out of towners call it Me-shOp-pen.
Yeah I forgot to make a request (or three) for my son, who at 7 identified the location in the thumbnail. Anyways, during December there's a snowflake illuminated at night high over Bear Mountain looking over the bridge that carries its namesake, and it can be seen for a few miles up and down the Hudson.
Dang I just realized I could’ve also requested E. 99th Street in Cleveland cause 6 goes right by it, Bone Thugs N Harmony originated in that area and their 2nd album E. 1999 is named for it
It's pronounced Mat uh poice it. And people are so rich there I think God lives in the neighborhood. It's not Folmouth, it's Fal mouth. And they're rich too. God has a summer cottage there.😮😅😊
The Southern Tier Expwy is only west of Binghamton. East of there it is called the Quickway. East of Windsor NY is Future I-86, it is still just NY 17.
17:17 All the mentions of OH2, but OH7 is also a very interesting route (along with it being the longest in the state). Very funky road with a lot of plans for buildup.
Coudersport is pronounced Cow-dersport. I lived in Emporium which is in Cameron County the smallest county pop wise in Pa. Coudersport, Smethport and Port Allegheny are all around 20 to 25 miles away.
> 21:48 < I would say Cloudersport as if the word *cloud* is in the word.
At the start US 6 westbound, there is a sign to Bishop CA.
Couple of requests for US 40, first for the interchange with US 24 in the great city of LIMON!!! Second, for downtown Granby Colorado, as well as the interchange with US 34 nearby, there was a guy who went on a bulldozer rampage through town there back in 2004
Ah yes, the reasonable man 😎
Thanks, you got it!
28:54 - The sign of Bear Mountain Bridge makes it appear that the bridge is part of a New York parkway. I have walked across this bridge from Ft.Montgomery, NY. Bear Mountain Bridge is the lowest elevation along the A.T. (sea level)
The traffic circle at the entrance to the Bear Mountain Bridge is at the end of the Palisades Interstate Parkway which starts at the George Washington Bridge.
18:05 Linesville, which is right by Pymatuning Lake, is home of the local “legendary” Linesville Spillway, where “the ducks walk on the fish.” 18:12 And Conneaut Lake is home of the now defunct Conneaut Lake Park, one of the very few free admission amusement parks.
Generally, in MA, "A" routes represent former routings. So MA 1A contains former routings of US 1, MA 2A is former routings of MA 2, and so on. Thus, MA 6A is the former routing of US 6 through Cape Cod before the freeway/Super 2 was built.
Also, totally random note, I once had an ice cream sandwich in Sandwich! It was delicious.
Ha nice!
When I was 7 I asked for a pony for my birthday. I kept it in Barnstable.😮
8:05 Ligonier! That's where my grandmother grew up and it's something she talks about a lot so its kind of a special place in my heart for that
Also 36:05 Plymouth is where my girlfriend is from and she said she got confused about the exit numbers on US-6 going to Cape Cod. I explained the numbers were mileage from RI and she was like "why would anyone take Route 6 to RI when 195 (or 495 to 95) is faster?" And I said "you're right, but the road still goes there and mileage is based off that"
Enjoyed this as a PA native that's traveled most of 6 in PA.
Tidioute > Tid-ee-youte
Tionesta > Ty-o-nesta or Ty-nesta (I've heard and used both) - Tionesta is the county seat of Forest County, a county without a full fledged traffic light
Love it. Tid-e-yoot. Tie-on-esta. Both towns are marked for various reasons. Tionesta is the de facto seat of Forest Co. Tidioute is marked as last major town of Warren Co. Both towns in 1900 had populations in the thousands for logging for Pittsburgh. Tidioute had a population of 3500 at the time. Tidioute's nail in the coffin was a fire in the 70s wiping half the center of town out.
Thanks!
@@ControlCityFreak Also you were pronouncing Coudersport wrong, the Cou is pronounced like “cow.”
W video
Never got the time to make a request, but glad to see the U. S 6/44 split from I-84 in Connecticut. (32:47) Westbound U.S 44 leads back into East Hartford where my family's old home was, while East 6/44's route into Manchester goes to my cousin's old house, so I've seen this interchange a lot.
I have a request for 376 and the PA 576 interchange. Kind of a brag.
I was in Fayette County, PA, visiting my family in 2021. The day I flew back home to Portland was the day that the full length 576 toll road opened. It's a shortcut to one of your favorite control cities, "Washington Pa." I got to drive the entire route on day one.
Thanks, you got it!
8:55 I know of Bryan, Ohio from the label on the back of the Etch-A-Sketch I used to have! (It’s where Ohio Art, the company that used to make them, is based.)
They also make those dum dum suckers you get at the banks there.
10:15 OH 25 used to be US 25, before it was truncated at the OH-KY state line.
@21:52 Coudersport as in louder sport
27:12 - Thanks for showing this 3-state monument. I want to go there. I have been to the Mason-Dixon arc-corner monument (Delaware/Pennsylvania) near Newark, Delaware.
For US 40, can you show the Intersection with Colorado 71? It's one of the first intersections in the best meme town on this channel?
Yes, I want to see this as well
Thanks, you got it!
6:26 technically, the roadway name does change from 159th to 162nd somewhere in Harvey (around South Suburban College) .... in part because of the roadway shifts south at the I-57 and Tri-State Tollway interchanges (as both interstates are angled, so US 6 is also angled to make the cloverleaf interchanges pretty much square).
9:51 I wonder if this wasn't the old long abandoned line that ran from Jackson, MI. to Franklin, OH that was run by Conrail last till the 80s or early 90s.
Great job, as usual. Exit requests for I-376: 65 (PA 50) - I used to live in Carnegie; 67 (PA 121) - Olive Garden where I ate regularly.
Thanks so much, you got it!
Exit request for I-376 - exit 67 PA 121 westbound has my (and Bill Cower's) hometown - Crafton, PA but is shown on westbound only.
I-376 used to be PA 60 from I-80 to Us 22/30, then US 22/30 until I-79, then I-279 from I-79 through Pittsburgh with I-376 starting from I-279 in downtown. Penndot changed it circa 2009 because they wanted the entire roadway to be signed as an interstate. As a result the interstates don't follow the three digit interstate rules.
Thanks, you got it!
Idk if my comment made it, or it got deleted.
But i have one more request, well more like a building request.
To the left of Exit 67 For PA-121. There's a gold windowed building. It looks very cool, but you can imagine driving past in in very sunny weather 🌞🌞
Thanks, you got it! That'll be the last one I add to 376
Hey Todd thanks for highlighting my requests! I had to add a really big blurb about Public Square (where Tower City is located) in Cleveland. It’s actually the start of many routes, both US and state routes:
Leaving WB on Superior is the start of US 42 and OH-3.
Leaving EB on Superior is the start of US 322 (concurrent with US 6)
Leaving SB on Ontario is the start of US 422, OH 8, OH 14, OH 43 (not signed until Miles Ave), OH 87 and historically US 21.
Leaving SE on Euclid Ave: US 20. Historically US 6 and US 20 continued to be concurrent until the intersection in East Cleveland and Euclid was ALT US 6 and ALT US 20 up to that point.
There used to be some cool old school signs at the intersection that had most of the routes but they were removed when through traffic was removed through the center of Public Square.
Fun fact: US 6 and US 20 are the only continuous routes through Public Square.
That's awesome, thanks for the info!
The freeway that US 6 is on in NY State just west of the Thruway is the eastern end of the NY 17 (Future I-86) Quickway. Also, it’s pronounced MAYO-pack. In Bristol, there is a turnoff for CT 229 that will take you to ESPN and Lake Compounce, the oldest continuously operating amusement park. Continue past ESPN, and you hit my hometown of Southington.
Know rte 6 since I go to cape cod baseball games during summer.
Exit 85 is the quickest way to get to Chatham the elbow part of the Cape and home to a cape cod team. Ballpark near the center
38:02 exit goes to Orleans cape cod league stadium
38:09 I believe that's the Orleans rotary that the 1st exit goes to 6a to another rotary which splits 6a with ma 28 all the way to Chatham and the 180 degree goes all the way to Ptown
7:26 That intersection of 421 and 6 is now a roundabout as of a few months ago.
I've been on US 6 throughout Colorado, a little bit of Utah, and on Cape Cod. Big gap in between I'm missing.
12:00 Woo hoo thanks for showing Margaritaville in Sandusky OH
I grew up in Fremont Ohio. There is a cedar point sign on US 20/US 6. There is also a sign for Lake Erie Islands and the Turnpike, both of which you have to exit from the Fremont Bypass to SR 53. I would also sign fremont from BG. The Fremont area has a decent population and is the between city between Blowing Green and Sandusky.
Thank you Todd for another great episode, totally forgot to make a request but glad you got 38:11 in since I believe that is the Start/End of Route 28 from that point all the way up to the NH lakes region!
Right on the Orleans rotary as I think it concurrent with 6A then splits off as you drive down to Chatham then westward. The Cape has quite a few traffic circles
Very familiar with a lot of those Connecticut junctions/intersections on US-6, particularly the Bristol one (currently live there near ESPN HQ, which between US-6 and I-84).
22:54 Is that the Camptown from that “Camptown Races” minstrel tune?
Yup, it is
1:45 Geneseo photo is after where US 6 passes Springfield Armory.
I think this is the earliest I ever watched one of the Control City Freak videos.
This is the one I was waiting for for! Thank you :)
Clinched this in PA! And been on bits and pieces of the road in NY, OH, and IL... but not nearly as much as I'd like to.
Ohio native here, you definitely should check out Cedar Point!!
Todd, are you planning to cover Ohio route 2? Are you planning to cover US-19? How soon? I might want to buy requests for 2 of the charging stations I’ve used for most of my electric car road trips.
Will do both, but no timeline
Was just in Kendallville, IN yesterday, so drove US-6 from I-79 there (didn’t even realize it was US-6 at first)!!😂 US-6 is one of those roads you’re always “crossing” when driving around interstates! Although, I’ve apparently driven more US-6 than I realized!! Like to Wyalusing, PA (it is in the middle of nowhere!😮) Sorry I didn’t make a request.😢 And in NY, used to ride the Palisades Pkwy to Bear Mountain Bridge as the Grandparents lived up that way. 👵Thanks!
Nice!
@ thx Todd! pretty good size town… stopped at grocery distribution company there for work…
US 6 and US 24 go well over 1,000 miles between their Colorado and Ohio intersections. I wonder if there are any roads who are apart for a longer stretch in between meetings.
Back when US 6 went to LA and US 66 existed, you have ~1700 straight line miles between their junctions in LA and Joliet
37:36 Old Orleans?
Whoa!
Closest I used to live to 6 was back in Illinois as it goes along the Illinois River. When it's in Morris, Illinois, I used to live up the road in Yorkville, Illinois.
Factoid: Saundusky OH has a ferry that goes to Pelee Island and Leamington, Ontario.
My brother and sister-in-law went on their honeymoon at Pelee Island.
How about kU, huh? Heard they had a big game on Sunday.
I have only been on PA and NY portions of U.S. 6
Been on hear mountain bridge
Between Honesdale and Hawley(White mills, Charles street ) my Residence from 1998-2019
Honesdale's claim to fame: Richard Bernhard Smith, American composer who wrote the lyrics to Winter Wonderland
Jersey Shore is a municipality in PA. Stupid name? Yes.
But do they have the Situation and Snooki?
You should look at Unclecoolie Productions Video about US 6, its 8 Hours Long and goes Westbound, they filmed it back in August. +The Historic US 6 From Bishop to Long Beach
Cedar Point has the best rides... It's worth the visit
It would seem that US-6 was the original road from the Northeast to California, and the only one to directly connect both.
You should read the first couple of pages of "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac.
17:05, my hometown!
Here in Connecticut when I-84 and US 6 are concurrent, they ALWAYS mention I-84, and US 6 gets lost in the shuffle. The only time we see US 6 is when it "exits itself".
Yay, more NIN
My list for this segment of U.S. 6 Eastbound is quite dense, which I expected seeing how it parallels Interstates a lot more frequently in this section. But I don’t think I expected it to be this big.
Moline-Geneseo-Annawan-Sheffield-Princeton-Peru-Ottawa-Seneca-Morris-Joliet-Tinley Park-Hammond-Portage-Westville-Walkerton-Bremen-Nappanee-Ligonier-Kendallville-Waterloo-Butler-Edgerton-Napoleon-Bowling Green-Fremont-Sandusky-Huron-Vermilion-Lorain-Avon Lake-Cleveland-Euclid-Chardon-Andover-Conneaut Lake-Meadville-Mill Village-Union City-Corry-Warren-Kane-Smethport-Port Allegany-Coudersport-Wellsboro-Mansfield-Towanda-Meshoppen-Tunkhannock-Factoryville-Scranton-Carbondale-Honesdale-Milford-Matamoras/Port Jervis-Middletown-Goshen-Kiryas Joel-Peekskill-Mahopac-Brewster-Danbury-Newtown-Southbury-Woodbury-Watertown-Thomaston-Bristol-Hartford-Manchester-Willimantic-Danielson-Providence-East Providence-Fall River-New Bedford-Wareham-Barnstable-Orleans-Provincetown
As much as you hyped up Pennsylvania being cringe for its segment of 6, I’m not sure it was warranted as much as, say, I 80 through the center of the state. I’d probably say that the worst signed area is at that circle in the heart of Cleveland, where all the U.S. routes seem to converge. In my hometown, there are quite a lot of roundabouts, and coming into most of them are diagram signs showing the roads that are a part of the roundabout intersection. And the exits off of the roundabouts mostly have street names to help with directions. Something similar should be employed at that circle in question.
True, they should make more of a to-do about all those US highways meeting in one spot in Cleveland.
This has to be your best episode to date! We get to revisit the "worst" I-180, and make a 2nd visit to Rhode Island, the smallest state.
Shortly after crossing the Providence River (at 34:45), US 6 (and I-195) cross the Seekonk River on the Washington Bridge. That bridge has unfortunately suffered irreparable structural damage, requiring eventual demolition and replacement. 3 lanes of traffic "squeeze by" in both directions here right now, but it's now a traffic "choke point" for those traveling between NYC and Cape Cod.
Thanks!
21:57 COWdersport :)
I've spent way too much time on this road. I've heard this saying about US 6, it's a long road that goes everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
26:57 New York at its finest: A US 209 Error Shield 😂
So if you're saying I-68 is the most hyped Interstate, then if Lawrence were signed on US 24, it would be the most hyped city ever to exist.
Princeton ILLINOIS used to be the eastern end of US 32 before 6 got expanded from Erie Pennsylvania to Greeley Colorado in 1931 , replacing US 32 and US 38
Hyannis is, like, THE city on Cape Cod lol so I feel like you gotta keep it on the roster of control cities. And don't worry too much about trying to pronounce those cities in Massachusetts lol. The pronunciations can be chaotic. They'll truly look one way and sound completely different!
(My husband is from Cape Cod and I've been up there to visit the area lots of times!)
5:03 I can't wait til he does the I-294 video .... my old stomping grounds. The Tri-State Tollway has been upgraded SEVERAL times over the 30 years that I've been a driver ... and over the 40(ish) years that I've been reading maps ... so I know of ALL the past/ongoing/currently scheduled future changes .... it's a LOT different 😂😂
My aunt used to live in Oak Lawn so I was on it a lot as a kid
I'm pretty positive I've gotten off the Tri-State at EVERY exit on the tollway from O'Hare all the way SOUTHWARD over to 80/94 at some point in my life.
I know of Princeton, IL, from a customer who lived there that was a regular at the store I worked at in Schaumburg, which is a northwest suburb of Chicago, so not what you'd call a short trip. Otherwise, the only real interactions I have with US-6 are regularly passing the interchange with I-39.
I worked in Schaumburg for a bit too! 2004 or so
@@ControlCityFreak My tenure there was around 1998-2001, just part-time as I was in school.
Can you do US 378 from GA to SC
Amazing!
Todd do you prefer gothic signage or clearview?
I’m pretty agnostic on it actually
@ okay because a friend asked me
I live close to US 6 in PA, so I can help you out with the pronunciation of Wyalusing & Tunkhannock. Wyalusing(Y-ah-loo-sing), & Tunkhannock(Tunk-han-nock). I'm surprised you got Meshoppen right off the bat, unfortunately a lot of out of towners call it Me-shOp-pen.
Yeah I forgot to make a request (or three) for my son, who at 7 identified the location in the thumbnail. Anyways, during December there's a snowflake illuminated at night high over Bear Mountain looking over the bridge that carries its namesake, and it can be seen for a few miles up and down the Hudson.
Nice! Awesome he could recognize the spot!
0:42 - I'll confuse US-6 and 6th Ave.
Why is a road that is never north of US 20 designated as US 6?
Ikr. I'm number 38
1:33 - I-80 does not go to Chicago. I-90, I-94 do go to Chicago.
I-80 serves Chicago. It doesn't go to Des Moines, Toledo, Cleveland, Youngstown, or New York either. Should they sign Omaha at I-95?
Todd ranks his background music would you just kiddig
23:09 da da da da, *its meshoppen*
Come on, Mattapoisett rolls right off the tongue! 😂
Matt..ah...poy...set
lol
It’s alright I probably shouldn’t have made my username so clustered 😅 it’s supposed to say chop or chubbz (chubs) da (the) 1
Dang I just realized I could’ve also requested E. 99th Street in Cleveland cause 6 goes right by it, Bone Thugs N Harmony originated in that area and their 2nd album E. 1999 is named for it
20:56 *the greatest thing the devil ever did was convincing this comment section to believe he didn’t exist*
It's pronounced Mat uh poice it. And people are so rich there I think God lives in the neighborhood. It's not Folmouth, it's Fal mouth. And they're rich too. God has a summer cottage there.😮😅😊
28:08 US-6 joins with NY-17 / I-86 Southern Teir Expressway.
The Southern Tier Expwy is only west of Binghamton. East of there it is called the Quickway. East of Windsor NY is Future I-86, it is still just NY 17.
@RonD937
I thought Pennsylvania built the Keystone Quickway [ I-80 ] in about 1970. ...or .. ..-... hmmm..
Was I-80 Keystone Shortway?
Pronounced MAR-SALES