I gather that my mother spent years with her mental map of Beverly, Mass. incorrectly rotated 90 degrees because Route 128, signed north/south, crosses the city east/west, combined with the fact that Beverly faces south (not east) onto the Atlantic Ocean.
That said, what bugs me about the Tappan Zee bridge isn't so much that I-87 is designated in a direction that doesn't reflect its actual route—it's that it's equally officially designated in a direction that does reflect its actual route, but for some reason the non-matching designation is the one that's used for more official purposes.
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Date: 2011-04-17 01:21 pm (UTC)That said, what bugs me about the Tappan Zee bridge isn't so much that I-87 is designated in a direction that doesn't reflect its actual route—it's that it's equally officially designated in a direction that does reflect its actual route, but for some reason the non-matching designation is the one that's used for more official purposes.