Actually, Interstate 70 parallels US highway 40, which was known as National
Road, running from coast to coast. It was first carved by pioneers on their
journey west. While Lewis & Clark might have followed parts of it, they headed
up
the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers to end up in Oregon. Neither I-70 nor US
40 travel that route. US 40 is sections still has the original hand laid brick
as
the sub base of the highway, which was later covered by blacktop and concrete.
Interstate 70 gets recovered about every 5 years, but it is the main east to
west
truck route for the Midwest. On any given day you can sit and count over one
hundred trucks per hours traveling on this Interstate. Due to this heavy truck
traffic, the road does not hold up well for cars to travel over it.
How do I know all of this? I live between I-70 and US 40 at the western state
line of Indiana. I travel this interstate often in my wife's daily driver, but
seldom in my Spit, too many big trucks!
Howard Baugues
West Terre Haute, IN, USA
76 Spit
77 Spit
68 GT6+
"Scott A. Roberts" wrote:
> > Last post by me on the entire trip, I promise, great trip, great time, I
> > also drove the original trail used by "Lewis & Clark" when they left in
> the
> > early 1700's to explore the N.W. only today they call it Interstate 70
> > through Missouri, the absolute worst interstate in the entire U.S., never
> > should anyone be subjected to a interstate such as that, the worst road
> > coast to coast. "FT"
>
> Interesting historical note about that road- It was originally traveled by
> Lewis and Clark, and in the interest of historical preservation, has never
> been resurfaced...
>
> ;)
> Scott
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