Re: A stumper for the group


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"richard" <don@xxxxxxxx> writes:

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"richard" <don@xxxxxxxx> writes:

"Larry Harvilla" <roads@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I came up with this one last night while driving through the western
Chicago suburbs on I-88. Let's see how smart y'all are. :)

Before April 2006, there were two Interstate highways that re-entered a
time zone they had already previously run through. Where do these
Interstates meet?

Chattanooga,, Tn??

No...I-75 stays in ET all the way, and I-24 only switches time zones once,
at the Marion/Hamilton County line in Tennessee. (Ditto for I-59, which
heads into ET at the Alabama/Georgia line, about 20 miles from where it
ends at I-24.)

After reading the post again I realized I was wrong. Actually though, it
wasn't until fairly recently that they moved the time zone line to the west
side of Chattanooga.
It used to follow I-75 entirely. As I found out years ago on a trip.
Chattanooga was on Central while I75 was eastern.

It couldn't have been any more recent than about 1975, as I was driving
through that area on the way to/from eastern Kentucky then, and the time
change up I-59 was where it still is now - and it was the only time change.
(I went into Chattanooga a time or two and their time was ET.)

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Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick@xxxxxx) Houston, Texas
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This is a good one for historian Marc:
in the 50's was it not true that all of Indiana, including Indianapolis
was in Central Time? Why did they split the state like they did.

Now I do not remember where it ran through MI in those days, did it jog
completely
along the IN-MI bprder?

Take care,
Randy, safe and dry in Clearwater, FL

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  • Re: A stumper for the group
    ... time zone they had already previously run through. ... Chattanooga was on Central while I75 was eastern. ... change up I-59 was where it still is now - and it was the only time change. ... chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2006-07 Houston Aeros) ...
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  • Re: A stumper for the group
    ... time zone they had already previously run through. ... Interstates meet? ... No...I-75 stays in ET all the way, and I-24 only switches time zones once, ... Chattanooga was on Central while I75 was eastern. ...
    (misc.transport.road)