JJohnson
Banned
I'm only putting this here since the PoD is before 1900. For the sake of argument, by 1900, the United States covers:
-OTL USA
-OTL Canada
-Baja California, Durango, Sinaloa, and the Republic of the Rio Grande at the southernmost border
-Cuba, Hispaniola, the Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Bermuda, French Polynesia
In that scenario, what would the interstate highway system look like?
Would it be reasonable to have I-5 go from the tip of Baja to Alaska? Would I-95 in the east go from Miami to New Brunswick/Nova Scotia? And do you see any major alterations in where the highways might go, assuming that most major population centers stay the same?
The only major state differences in this scenario are a row of 3°-tall states starting with "British Columbia" going east till the Great Lakes, Ontario's peninsula, a smaller Quebec, and a unified NS/NB/PEI state, plus Rio Grande, Durango (+Sinaloa), South California (Baja), Sonora, Chihuahua, and Arizona and New Mexico's southern borders moving south enough to give Arizona sea access.
Last question - what effect does having sea access have on Arizona, say at 31.2° N?
-OTL USA
-OTL Canada
-Baja California, Durango, Sinaloa, and the Republic of the Rio Grande at the southernmost border
-Cuba, Hispaniola, the Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Bermuda, French Polynesia
In that scenario, what would the interstate highway system look like?
Would it be reasonable to have I-5 go from the tip of Baja to Alaska? Would I-95 in the east go from Miami to New Brunswick/Nova Scotia? And do you see any major alterations in where the highways might go, assuming that most major population centers stay the same?
The only major state differences in this scenario are a row of 3°-tall states starting with "British Columbia" going east till the Great Lakes, Ontario's peninsula, a smaller Quebec, and a unified NS/NB/PEI state, plus Rio Grande, Durango (+Sinaloa), South California (Baja), Sonora, Chihuahua, and Arizona and New Mexico's southern borders moving south enough to give Arizona sea access.
Last question - what effect does having sea access have on Arizona, say at 31.2° N?