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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: bowie boy on November 29, 2006, 01:37:00 PM

Poll
Question: how far away is wichita
Option 1: 90-100 miles votes: 0
Option 2: 80-89 miles votes: 2
Option 3: 70-79 miles votes: 10
Option 4: 60-69 miles votes: 1
Option 5: don't know votes: 0
Title: howard question #6
Post by: bowie boy on November 29, 2006, 01:37:00 PM
travlers should know this :D
Title: Re: howard question #6
Post by: Wilma on November 29, 2006, 03:21:37 PM
Is this a trick question?  Because it used to be 61 miles from Severy to Wichita City limits.  With the new 99 highway and 400 highway and the east side of Wichita being further east, it shouldn't be more than 70 miles now.  Do you know for sure?
Title: Re: howard question #6
Post by: Joanna on November 29, 2006, 06:25:49 PM
My family seems to judge distance by minutes, not miles Wilma; and it's a lot shorter trip for some of us than for others! Ha! Ha!
Title: Re: howard question #6
Post by: Wilma on November 29, 2006, 07:18:38 PM
It does seem a much shorter trip via 400.  I wondered why we can make it to Wal-Mart on the east side of Wichita in just over an hour, doing the speed limit, when I realized the east side of Wichita is much closer than it used to be.  I know some people, not naming names, can make it faster than that, but my driver acknowledges speed limits.
Title: Re: howard question #6
Post by: Janet Harrington on November 29, 2006, 07:34:13 PM
I took a guess, but guessed wrong.  If you want to know the answer according to the Kansas Department of Transportation's mileage map, go to this link...

http://www.ksdot.org/burTransPlan/dist_chrt.cgi

You can find out what the mileage is between any city in Kansas.
Title: Re: howard question #6
Post by: Janet Harrington on November 29, 2006, 07:34:45 PM
...and I do not drive fast, Mother.  :P
Title: Re: howard question #6
Post by: Wilma on November 29, 2006, 07:39:35 PM
Did I SAY you did?
Title: Re: howard question #6
Post by: Wilma on November 29, 2006, 07:43:17 PM
I notice that distance chart was done in 2002.  Don't you think maybe the new 99 has cut off another mile?  I was wrong, too.
Title: Re: howard question #6
Post by: Janet Harrington on November 29, 2006, 08:20:24 PM
No, I don't believe that the new highway has changed any mileage.  I will check it the next time I drive it.