Interstate 84 used to be known as 80N, and connects Portland (and Seattle) to the interior West and Midwest. It’s the main street of Idaho and offers great views in Utah! Control City Freak is updated weekly and covers every two digit Interstate Highway in America. I’ll be showing control city signs on each 1 and 2 digit (2di) Interstate Highway in the continental United States and will strive to make as complete a record as possible. I’ll also be getting into the roadgeek weeds here and there, showing downtown skylines and state border crossings, and making corny jokes. I welcome all to join my geeky tour of every primary Interstate in the country!
All images of roads and signs come from Google Street View unless otherwise specified.
The Interstate 84 Shield comes from Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_84#/media/File:I-84.svg
The 80/80 N picture appears courtesy of Steve Alpbert at alpsroads.net. photo credit Michael Summa,1976. https://www.alpsroads.net/roads/ut/i-80/
Maps used in this video come from Google Maps https://www.google.com/maps/
Control City Freak Episodes mentioned in this video:
Interstate 15 Northbound https://youtu.be/iKuWCylXHU4
Interstate 15 South https://youtu.be/ROPAsMvqbXY
Interstate 80 East https://youtu.be/XDwo70DW3pA
Interstate 80 West https://youtu.be/yfLnrTRXtGU
Interstate 84 Oregon https://youtu.be/kd_GRpop8BQ
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Can't wait for next week. PA is going to be fun as always
I think that I-84 should be from Portland to Pocatello. The current I-84 that goes southeast from Burley towards Salt Lake should be called I-82. And the current I-82 should be renumbered to I-86. Basically so the numbers can fit the numbering grid better. It's weird that I-82 is completely located north of I-84.
Can't wait for next week. In my humble opinion, from end to end, I-84 is the worst interstate highway in the nation.
N.F.'s the way it should be for Western I-84 as a Whole
EASTBOUND: Boise, Twin Falls and/or Ogden, Ogden/Salt Lake City (from ID/UT state line through I-15 concurrency), Cheyenne
WESTBOUND: Ogden, Pocatello/Boise (during I-15 concurrency), Boise, Portland/Seattle (until I-82), Portland
Todd, first of all I love your videos. With western I-84, many of the exits are in very rural areas that only serve a local community. I'm thinking those people use I-84 just to get to the next village to the nearest supermarket. I'm thinking major highways like U.S. 93 or U.S. 20 should be signed for the big cities at their junctions with I-84, but the back roads to nowhere, the next town is okay at their junction with I-84. Not sure which is which in your video.
More PA next week noooo.
This video has a M*A*S*H connection.Harry MORGAN & David OGDEN Stiers.
You said your 19th birthday was in 1858 !
The speed limit reduction at the Oregon-Idaho border used to be even a bigger change (80 to 65), and the warning about it on the Idaho side was a bit more…urgent. We always said it reflected the vaguely opposite personalities of the 2 states.
I drove I-84 back and forth, end-to-end, several times per year, from my place in Portland, to my family home in Northern Utah. Memorized every sign.
Tremonton is pronounced "TREE-mont-un"
"Dalles" is pronounced as a single syllable.
The double control cities thing looks almost like they're trying to highlight a nearby city in the right lanes and a remote city in the left lanes? You see this kind of thing more often with local exits vs through traffic, but it's not making as much sense for me here.
Finally my home interstate next week
Bad news is that we gotta go back to Pennsylvania again for I-84 Eastern. But the good news is we’ll finally be going into New England for the first time – Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Terrific video. It makes me want to head out to Idaho on I-84. Also, I'm pumped up to visit Snowville, UT!
With the Limon reference lol
It's nice how the previous video was of I-84 over the exotic terranes of Oregon, and this video is of I-84 over the craton of North America.
8:44 a LIMON reference! LIMON! 😂😂😂
Theirs also I-84 in NE part of the US for example: I-84 is in Connecticut (just in case u forgot) (;
Maybe Boise doesn’t get the recognition it deserves for most of I-84, so as payback Mountain Home and Nampa are signed on I-184. 😂
How was the food
Any thoughts to doing a "best" and "worst" control cities after the 2 digit interstates are complete? My vote for one of the worst would be Snowville, while for best I have to go with the I-80 East to New York City just outside Youngstown, Ohio. (Of course, being from a town just outside Youngstown, I could be biased. 🙂)
Only changes I'd make to the list at the end is that I'd sign Twin Falls/Boise instead of just Boise from I-15 until Twin. From Twin, sign just Boise.
The other change is that I would sign Nampa from Boise until reaching Nampa and then sign Portland, given how quickly Nampa is growing.
8:40 snowville is probably signed since it’s the only real town between there and twin falls