US 75: Middle of the Map
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- US 75 goes right down the middle of the country, and right by the home of the now-happening College World Series. Unlike many US Highways that have been bypassed by Interstates, it is often the fastest route between distant metro areas, but is almost universally signed like a backwater county road. It's frustrating!
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Plano: home to Frito-Lay and Texas Instruments.
So, in other words, it deals with two different kinds of chips.
Boom!
Frito-Lay has a plant in Topeka.
If you go through the US-75/I-470 interchange on the Kansas Turnpike, you will smell that plant that’s right smack against it. It stinks!
@@DerekWitt texas instruments calculators will be obsolete after,2030 because ai
@@DerekWitt im used to the Topeka Frito lay plant I live in south Topeka
@@steveharvey470capybara Anyone with capybara in their name has my respect
One of my favorite things to wake up to every Thursday 🙏🏻
MN-1/1 is actually MN-171. The 7 has partially come off.
Also in Dallas, it’s Central Expressway, not Central Freeway. I did the traffic reports in Dallas for 25 years and watching that part was like old home week for me.
I bet you have some stories to tell about things you saw when reporting traffic.
I knew West Virginia did funny fraction route numbers. Didn't think that was the case anywhere else. But I kinda figured it was either an Google image issue or a sign issue.
Theory as to why McKinney is signed and not Plano.
McKinney is the county seat for Collin County. It is where TX-121(Sam Rayburn Tollway) and US-380 meet up with Central Expressway.
Formerly from the Gulf to the Border, now from Dallas to the Border. Not only I-45 replaces US 75 between the Metroplex and Greater Houston, there is also TX 75 marking the Historic US 75 in Texas between the two metropolitan areas of the state from Streetman to Conroe. Also, speaking of US 75 in the Lone Star State, the Central Expwy is my favorite freeway in the Dallas side of the Metroplex since it has been modernized and widened very well. Speaking of that, at the very start, I'd rather sign both Plano and McKinney. Signing McKinney is fine, even though it's the county seat of Collin County, TX and one of Dallas's satellite cities.
There are exactly four RUclips channels I regularly watch. Two are yours and CityNerd, and so the shoutout to him was fun. OTOH, you love highways, and he hates highways, so all sorts of contradictions abound.
I’m a big fan of his channel too
That MN “1/1” highway is actually 171 but the top part of the 7 is cut off
Even as a non-trucker, I always look for a Love's truck stop when I need to. Consistently good.
Glad you mentioned the College World Series!
As a Nebraskan, US 75 has always been strange as it parallels I-29 the whole state!
Interesting Fact: Omaha's "North Freeway", which follows 75, was supposed to connect all the way north to I-680. But, it only made it to Ames Ave because of neighborhood protest.
Glad to see a US-75 video be made finally from you! I live in Omaha, which I travel north and south on 75 often (as well as US 6), which makes this highway special.
I never fully understood why they never got signage done properly for the 680 portion exit of 75. That never made sense to me, but then again, 680's signage is all over the place haha. Great video!
Thanks!
Great video Todd! I coincedentally made a US-75 series around the same time you made and uploaded this video, lol. I did it as a 75 subscriber special (now up to 105). Courtemanche437 and I might make "review/thoughts on" videos where we see the similarities/differences in them and also roast the bad control cities on it, if you are cool with us doing that.
Yeah sounds fun!
Love how you didn't even attempt to pronounce "Wahpeton." (WHOP-uh-tonn) As a native of northwestern Iowa who has lived in western Minnesota and both Dakotas, I really enjoyed this video.
I didn't even need to pay $5 for my exit. You mentioned SE 45th and Topeka Blvd. I live in the trailer park behind Kwick Shop.
I used to have to take the 69/75 routing from Big Cabin, OK to Dallas when I worked as an over the road truck driver. It was the shortcut from St Louis to points on 35 south of the Metroplex, most notably Laredo.
2:33 I love your videos I remember your IH-45 video and mentioning 3 digit interstates with no control city signage in Texas. Well I found four. 1. IH 610 southbound just before US 59 interchange.
2. IH 820 eastbound at the exit for IH 35W. 3. IH 635 southbound at the US 80 exit. 4. IH 20 eastbound at the US 175 east exit. #1 is in Houston, and #'s 2-4 are in DFW.
Todd I swear if I hear the Benson theme in one more of your videos I just might have to finally check the show out 🤣
It's a good show. One of the best sitcoms of the 80s.
Also, I remember reading that the freeway portion of US 75 in Oklahoma coming in from Texas was built using funds from the native American casino in Durant.
Notice outside of the 2 major metro areas in Oklahoma, non-interstate freeways that aren't tolled are almost non-existent. The only ones i know of are US 75 crossing into Oklahoma and US 62 outside Lawton. There are probably others.
On Apeil 26th this year, I was on US 75 north of Omaha when the Elkhorn NE EF3 tornado passed right in front of me.
Then the next day, I was on US 75 again and caught another breif tornado just north of Independence KS.
Oh wow!
My brother actually lives off of 75 before the TX-OK line, so this highway is a bit special for me.
I wasn’t even thinking about the College World Series - I thought this was posted because we’re playing the Rangers this weekend.
That works too!
US 75 passes through my dad's home town of Burlington in Kansas so was cool to see that today.
Thanks! Finally one of my local us highways and I requested a wile back and I'm waiting for us sid
Thanks so much!
Hopefully one day you actually do US 54 El Paso is pretty interesting when it’s comes to Control Cities and highway signs TXDOT is very random here and can tell just like the rest of Texas they don’t care for El Paso
I will!
24:46 I took an online course through NDSU before I graduated college in 2010!
Also BTW, you got "Okmulgee" pronunciation very close... the "k" is pronounced, like an oak tree. But it is a hard "g" like you said it.
Why at 8:03 is 364 west also signed with "To 44" or maybe even Oklahoma City? I'm definitely a newbie at this stuff but it seems like it's an easy way for the far south suburbs of Tulsa to access 44. Anyways, i've been "binging," your videos the past couple days, great stuff!
Thanks! Yeah putting some kind of control point on that sign would help.
“Westbound is signed for Manhattan, which it should never be” 😂
Gee I wonder why he would say that.. lol😅!!
@@RoadRunnergarage8570probably the chant coming from the students there (that the university has had enough of) 😂
The funny thing is that US 24 is actually cardinally north-south around the east side of Manhattan.
That’s a long road LOL
This video started well when you mentioned CityNerd, but then it became great when you pulled out a George Michael Sports Machine reference. Well done!
P. S. As an Eagles fan, I am so sorry Carson Wentz is on your team.
I think he'll be a solid backup. I'm just glad it's not Gabbert anymore, hard to get over cheering against him in every college game he played.
@13:49 Oh my gosh! You mentioned the George Michael Sports Machine! Wow! I used to watch Sports Machine when I was a kid along with This Week in Baseball and Wild America w/Marty Stouffer!
George Michael, even during the Sports Machine glory era was #2 in the DC market. He couldn't beat out Glenn Brenner.
PGBT refers to George Herbert Walker Bush... the turnpike was in existence (although not fully completed) when Dubya was still governor of Texas.
McKinney and Plano are both in Collin County. McKinney is the county seat, which, I'm sure, is the reason it's signed.
i think "mileage sign" is too vague; it could be confused with "mile marker". I think "distance directory" would be better.
A bit about the ordinal numbers. What you probably didn't notice is that, between Spur 366 (the one that has signage marked as To I-35E) and one exit before I-635, the numbering is pretty normal, as those are mileage based. However, the numbers jump from 8 to 20 or 21 right before I-635, which is where ordinal number are. The plan was that when the Central Expressway was being rebuilt back in the 90s, TxDOT was to switch the exit numbers from ordinal to mileage based, especially since they thinned out the number of exits in that area. As they would progress with rebuilds, they would change it. Apparently, this idea was dropped, so you actually have the first eight miles as mileage base, then the rest as ordinal.
This freaked me out back in 2013 when I got a job in Plano. I had just arrived in Dallas after driving nearly four hours from Houston. My hotel was off of Exit 28 on US-75. I was in that first eight miles when I saw Exit 7. I thought to myself, "I still have some time before I reach the hotel." About three minutes later, I looked at the exit sign and it jumped to 23. I wasn't aware of the ordinal number scheme at the time, so I was deeply confused as to how did I travel 16 miles in 3 minutes.
Oh I didn't even realize it switched like that. What a cluster lol
Back in the day U.S 75 was called the king of trails for going from Texas all the way to Winnipeg. Minnesota wanted to honor that history. I recommend looking more into it it’s interesting
Cityplace was to have a twin tower on the opposite side of 75 connected by a covered walkway spanning the expressway. The real estate crash in the late '80s canceled this plan. It had been the headquarters of Southland Corp., parent company of 7-Eleven. No other freeway in Texas has sequential exit numbers, originally only to Exit 50 on the Collin-Grayson county line, but now extending to the Oklahoma border.
Would honestly like to see I-45 extended from Dallas to Omaha along the 75/69/INT corridor. Maybe have it end in Council Bluffs along 480.
Also my paternal grandparents live off the PGBT in the Dallas area so that’s a pretty important highway to me. Could even be worthy of its own control city video?
Middle of the country? It depends on specific factors. US-75 may be closer to the nation’s population center, but US-81 is closer to the mid-longitudes of the United States, going through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and often in relatively close proximity to US-75, (sometimes) US-59, and (often) US-69.
Middle of the map! 75 is definitely the closest one to the crease line in a Rand McNally atlas.
Tulsa presumably isn't signed for northbound because you have to take I-69 and then a different turnpike to get to Tulsa via the straightest route. US-75 can't claim Tulsa here because it's so much longer via that route, and US-69 can't claim it because it doesn't actually go to Tulsa.
Maybe eventually do US Route 62. El Paso to Niagara Falls NY.
I did US 62. It was a fun one to do.
Oklahoma Stone Hedge - If you ever do a video on the President George Bush Turnpike, you'll find two support columns on the west side over at the interchange with Texas 114. These were to be part of two flyover ramps from Texas 114 to the PGBT. It was in the plans from the onset and was actually drawn up and approved for construction. However, only the columns were built, and only two of them. I never got an official reason (as I was researching this for my channel), but either NTTA ran out of funds to construct the rest of the interchange or, according to some sources, the ground on that section of the turnpike was highly unstable and they had to use some ground stabilizers to even build the road, so it may be too cost prohibitive due to the environment.
In the case of Oklahoma, I'm reading that they are to start work on that interchange sometime late this year. I have a feeling they ran out of money to complete it and now, through all the bake sales and car wash donations, they have enough money to complete the interchange.
24:52 Sadly, the Taco John's in Moorhead (along with two locations in Fargo) are now closed. Which is a shame, since I loved their "6-Pack and a Pound" meal.
Oh that thing is massive. A buddy and I split one on a road trip once, totally stuffed afterwards.
At the end of tx highway 360 where it meets 287 it was supposed to be a flyover interchange instead of a regular intersection
75 is a great road, driven it many of times through Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. I always thought it was interesting that they left it dead ending into Canada instead of rerouting it through North Dakota.
I was surprised they didn't route that back to I-29 when the border crossing was closed.
Edit: Corrected the Interstate number.. I was guessing the number when I wrote the comment.
I hear that Sherman used to be signed north of Dallas all the way there up until McKinney surpassed it in population. We people from Sherman are still salty about it.
Hopefully you can find a reason to do U.S. Route 81, apparently with the line of cities 81 goes through, to the west, only 20% of the population resides, and to the east, 80% of the population of the U.S. resides
They sign president but don’t specify which George Bush got me 😂😂😂😂
Technically it’s named for George H.W. Bush since the highway was created during the Clinton presidency
There was some talk of extending I 45 up to Topeka or so.
Sad that you missed the old US 75 (now Texas 75) that is down in Texas north of Houston (Conroe to Dallas). Old US 75 parallels I-45 off and on From Houston to Dallas.
Actually, Conroe to Streetman, as all the other US-75 alignments north of Streetman is either Business Interstate 45 or, in the case from I-20 to US-175, it is State Highway 310.
I wonder if TxDOT is going to cancel that route and give the route to Dallas now that there is no South Central Expressway (or at least not in the freeway configuration).
US-75 is an awesome road! Yee-haw! Also, today's my birthday! P.S., I think they should extend I-45 further north to North Dakota.
Happy Birthday.
Depends on what part...the area through the McAllister Oklahoma is pretty bad.. especially with the construction there...us-69 is bad too...
Happy birthday!
Do NY-80 for hall of fame weekend!
Also do US-20
I would prefer NY 28 for a Cooperstown video. Although both are nice highways.
@@ReallyBadDriving I mean both would be good. 80 goes through more populated areas and 28 is more scenic.
Well unfortunately the baseball HOF became officially dead to me when they failed to induct Buck O'Neil in 2006 when he was still alive, so I'm not doing any content about Cooperstown.
73 used to end somewhere south of Sioux City
The Omaha North Freeway was originally I580 in the 70s and 80s
17:59 thank you for your service
At this point, they should upgrade what they need to and sign I-45 all the way to Tulsa and maybe up to Topeka and Omaha as well. But great video, I've only been on 75 in the Dallas area myself.
If they do that US-75 should be rerouted onto the Dallas North Tollway once the DNT’s alignment to US-82 is complete.
@@detroitotaku That will never happen. If there's a potential for removing the tolls, then NTTA isn't going to go for it.
@ki5aok by that I mean co-sign US-75 along the DNT as a tolled US Highway, like how US-412 is signed along the Cimmaron Turnpike, or how Interstates are co-signed with toll roads like I-80/90 on the Ohio Turnpike.
Aahh Nebraska... 20, 30 and 34... basically know all those routes where they go in Illinois as I grew up around them and was on them many times...
Why was there no sign for Limon for any of the routes that go there?
It passes through metro NYC (Manhattan) and into Vermont (Lyndon, Burlington) before swinging around through northeast Los Angeles (Ivanhoe, Marshall - where's King?)
My interstate hero, since you're a Kansan, have you seen the Kansas State schools in Olathe? I have a friend who graduated from there, she did last year. But have you heard or seen the KS STATE Schools in Olathe
I'm sure I played against some of them in junior high, but I don't remember anything about them.
@@ControlCityFreak Aah, have you been to Olathe more than once
@@ControlCityFreakGo Jayhawks! I love the team lol! Say hi to Lawrence Kansas for me Todd
@@ControlCityFreak Todd, have you been to Olathe more than once brother
Many times, but probably never once by choice lol
We know that Imterstate Highways are the name used in United States, but doesn't Canada have its own version of the Interstate Highways? What are they called in Canada?
20:53 Do you know yet if you still plan to do US 20 despite the DerpHog beating you to it?
I only did it cause of my Birthday. 😅
I wonder if the reason why a lot of the major cities don't get signed on highways like US 75 is because the locals in the smaller towns that the highway passes through doesn't want the extra traffic coming through.
Fair, but if you're going from Tulsa to Topeka or Topeka to Omaha, you're taking US 75. There's no other reasonable alternative route.
Love it when you compare other states to PA and NC... Lol😅!!
I know you do because you're always doing it yourself!!! -_-
@@courtemanche437 Yep!!. I do it too lol!!
Do US 77 and 81 next please!!!
Kinda the same vibe as this one, will be a while before I get to either.
Are you going to do I-49 anytime soon?
Did it years ago, it's there
I grew up in the country less than a half mile from 75 outside of Omaha.
7:02 long-distance signage for this is Winnipeg Manitoba Niagara Falls New York. For Kansas they should be doing Oklahoma to Topeka it should be Topeka bottom then the local cities on top of it. North of Topeka it should be Holton Omaha Nebraska on the bottom line
3:38 Bart Millard, lead singer of MercyMe is from Greenville Tx
the minesota 1 1 thing is 171, the 7 is nudged off a bit
We need a U.S. 2 video if you haven't already.
you missed the south sioux city rant too! ARNathan did it yesterday. but okay
To be honest, they probably mark Denison because that was where President Eisenhower was born
I have been to the TA in Beto junction kansas i love it
Do TN Route 57 and TN SR 385
18:38 yeah, no one refers to that stretch of highway as US-73. I just call it K-7.
I agree 👍I call it k-7 I got my tooth pulled and we took k-7 to state ave to a dentist office i forgot the name
I always heard Arkansas City be pronounced "Ark City" by locals. And i know you are against Joplin being a control city for some reason but Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma all use Joplin. Personally i think it's perfectly ok in most cases
I suppose CCF’s mindset is that because St. Louis uses Tulsa as a control city for I-44 west, it seems logical that Tulsa should reciprocate.
They should just sign 75 for Pembina instead of Noyes once north of Hallock. Pembina is bigger and still a town and then north of Pembina sign it for Winnipeg. Have through traffic follow 171 into Pembina to get on to I-29 which turns in to Manitoba Provincial Route 75. I don’t see no reason we can’t sign international city on US 75
Pembina was home to KCND-TV, a border blaster aimed at Winnipeg founded by Dallas broadcaster Gordon McLendon (KLIF, whose studios were on 75 before 345 was built). In 1975 the station was moved to Winnipeg and became CKND.
Here’s Speedboy14’s the way it should be for US 75 northbound
Tulsa
Coalgate (from Tulsa Shortcut)
Calvin
Henryetta
Tulsa
Topeka
Omaha
Blair
Tekamah
Winnebago
Sioux City
Le Mars
Sioux Center
Luverne
Pipestone
Lake Benton
Canby
Ortonville
Breckinridge
Moorhead
Crookston
Warren
Hallock
Winnipeg (until Winnipeg cutoff)
Noyes
I wouldn't skip over Bartlesville, Bartlesville is definitely big enough to warrant being a secondary on 75 and it's also the headquarters of ConocoPhillips.
No Texas cities to sign? At all?
Do you think Omaha should get a future MLB expansion team? I mean their stadium is almost MLB-caliber…
I think they'd be in line behind a whole bunch of other cities. Between AAA and CWS, they've got a pretty good baseball scene already
Got a question for you Todd, how long did you work at KTKA?
6 months when I was in college
@@ControlCityFreak So sounds to me like you either majored or at least took some journalism related classes if I'm correct.
Yep
I got no problem with McAlester (18k) after Durant because US 75 jumps off the 4 lane divided highway. That being said, it should have Tulsa too.
Come on Independence, KS was featured on a Netflix series 😂😂😂😂. That’s probably why it was signed
you should do I-255, I-270 in st. louis
Check out my 255/270 Vid
Exactly what i dreamed of when i fell asleep last night i dreamed of this
I've gone out of my way to clinch this road from between Dallas and Emporia. Honestly, better than US-69 through Oklahoma.
It’s Central Expressway in Dallas … not Central Freeway lol
23:38 the reason why they signed nothing for west US 12 is because you would've turned off on MN 7 a few miles back to go basically the same place
So what’s with US 400? Is it a spur route of US 00?
Right?
19:05 what would you do if the stadium was only known as one name and it was corporate named?
Denison is the original hometown of Dwight D. Eisenhower and is growing like Sherman is.
as someone who lives in topeka and passes the northbound 75 exit daily, i’ve never understood why it doesn’t say omaha
Denton Mentioned RAHH
One of uncles (dad side ) was a professor for KSU
my 36th birthday is tomorrow
Happy birthday!
If you were to sign I-44/I-244 eastbound at US-75 for what would you pick instead of Joplin? Springfield or St. Louis?
St. Louis. If they can sign Tulsa in St. Louis, they can sign St. Louis in Tulsa, especially given that St. Louis is bigger
@@ControlCityFreak True I remember you saying that signing Springfield in St. Louis and Tulsa on your I-44 video. Springfield has about 175,000 residents and a somewhat well known university and Bass Pro is there. It’s also closer to Tulsa then St. Louis. Same as St. Louis plus St. Louis and Tulsa are about 400 miles away from each other.
@@ControlCityFreakKansas City could also work. Considering 44 to 49 is the fastest route from Tulsa plus KC is closer to Tulsa than STL.
25:55 So Minnesota really is one of the worst for these provincialisms, from Worthington on up. I thought it was just me being lost all time. Pipestone is cool, though, you should go. At least it has a National Monument -- just not what you think.
I'm still adamant that should say "75 North" Omaha NE or "75 North" Kansas City from the jump.instead of "75 North" McKenney TX
Well McKenney Is before either of those and it's in Texas ..why would Texas sign an out of state city when they can sign their own??
Too me us-75 through the Oklahoma portion is the worst and congested, especially around the casino and the hundreds of stoplights
4:21 don’t knock my Sherman & Denison
Pretty sure they might remove I-345 and replace it with either a tunnel or a parkway.
They’re planning to do an I-696 and put the freeway below ground.
Hey Todd, I wanna tell you if you haven't been to Wheatfields bakery In Lawrence, GO THERE!!!
I've been!
@@ControlCityFreak It's amazing! I'm heading to St. Louis but i doubt you wanna drive 200 miles but I've always wanted to meet you 🎊
@@ControlCityFreakand I saw EAST SAINT LOUIS LOL WHY?!?!🤨🤬🤨
I miss heartland park i went there before i miss being there
I think they are referring to both presidents Bush