(02-15-2017 12:18 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(02-15-2017 11:55 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(02-14-2017 04:18 PM)NoDak Wrote:  Used to live in SE Idaho, and never been in a state that is so divided geographically and culturally. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the only spot that comes close. Some of my coworkers kids enrolled at U Idaho and had to drive long hours through Montana to get there. But Uof UTAH and BYU were far more popular than U of Idaho. Seemed only blue collar parents sent their kids to Idaho St.

What Moscow needs is an interstate from Spokane to Boise, Reno and Las Vegas. That stretch of the US doesn't have adequate N/S highway transportation and has grown tremendously since the interstate system was chartered. An interstate, even if most of it was in E Washington, would better connect the panhandle to the rest of the state.

Look up interstate 11. They are already building the Phoenix-Las Vegas part and planning Tuscon-Phoenix and Las Vegas-Reno.

Have seen the bridge near Hoover Dam at Boulder City. Didn't know it was part of a future I-11.

yup - Phoenix and Las Vegas are the two largest cities not connected by a Freeway.

Section from I-15 to Railroad Pass is built (I-515 right now). Nevada is building the Boulder City by-pass currently, which will make it interstate from I-15 to the Arizona border (the new bridge). Arizona is working on route design. Will follow US 93 to near Wickenburg, then curve west of the White Tank Mountains, then down to Casa Grande.

Nevada wants to extend to at least Reno, possibly further north.