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Anything But Metric

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Americans will use anything but metric

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Should reroute it via the Øresund bridge and tunnel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The bridge is already occupied by the E20.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But 45 > 20, so get out of the way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

E45 used to be E6 before the bridge was built.

Renaming them seems logical, but since they pass through low density areas in Sweden it probably won't ever happen. Their E4 and E6 are the only exceptions to the naming convention, that north/south are odd numbers and west/east are even numbers. E4 and E6 should have been renamed in the early 1990s to E47 and E55, but they got to keep the old names in Sweden, because nobody wanted to pay for changing thousands of existing road signs.