Talk:Interstate Highway System/Archive 8
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Shortest segment
The distinction of "not crossing State boundary" does not make sense to me:
- Shortest segment not crossing a State boundary: 0.11 mi (0.18 km): I-95 in the District of Columbia, where it crosses the Potomac River on the Woodrow Wilson Bridge.[53]
Although DC is not a state, I would claim the particular I95-segment runs from the VA to the MD state boundary.
Dutch-Bostonian (talk) 15:46, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
- I thought quite a while about how to word this particular one -- how to be brief and yet still accurate. Before my edit, it read 'The shortest Interstate route segment within a state (or federal district)', which seemed a bit wordy. As the boundaries of DC with its neighbors are in fact the state boundaries of Maryland and Virginia, I thought the present wording was both accurate and concise. What about something like this:
- Shortest segment not crossing a State boundary: 0.11 mi (0.18 km): I-95 on the Woodrow Wilson Bridge across the Potomac River where it briefly briefly crosses the southernmost tip of the District of Columbia between its borders with Maryland and Virginia.
- Or maybe someone else has a better way to express it concisely and accurately. Edit boldly! YBG (talk) 06:31, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
- See my edit in the article. Dutch-Bostonian (talk) 22:00, 31 August 2009 (UTC)