Editing Roadgeek (section)

==Interest==
Roadgeeks view their interest as an appreciation of engineering and planning feats:
{{cquote|We're interested in all the effort that goes into making roads. The railways in this country get an awful lot of press as great engineering achievements. Roads aren't seen in that way, but it wasn't always so. In the 1950s and 1960s they were part of a brave new era. Back then it was something to get excited about. They actually put people on buses and drove up and down them to have a look...|author=Steven Jukes<ref name=Gupta>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2732679/Never-mind-the-trainspotters.html |title=Never Mind the Trainspotters |last=Gupta |first=Lila Das |date= January 17, 2005 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |access-date= April 9, 2009}}</ref>}}
[[File:United Kingdom A road zones.svg|thumb|200px|The numbering zones for A-roads in Great Britain]]
[[File:Highway Gothic sample.svg|thumb|right|200px|[[FHWA Series fonts]]—also known as Highway Gothic or the Interstate typeface]]

Roadgeeks are not necessarily interested in motor vehicles;<ref name=Gupta/> there may also be an interest in [[cartography]] and map design. Enthusiasts may focus on a single activity related to roads, such as [[driving]] the full length of a highway (known as 'clinching') or researching the history, planning and quirks of a particular road or national highway system. Sometimes, road geeks are called "highway historians" for the knowledge and interests.<ref name=LSJ>{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Matthew |title=Looking Back: I-496 Construction, a Complicated Legacy |work=[[Lansing State Journal]] |date=February 22, 2009 |pages=1A, 8A}}</ref>

Even the numbering system can be a subject of deep interest, as Joe Moran describes in his book "On Roads: A Hidden History": {{cquote|On the online discussion forum of SABRE, the Society for All British Road Enthusiasts (sic), the 1400-odd Sabristi often debate about where the M25 starts and whether it is correctly numbered, or why the motorway from Carlisle to Glasgow is called both the M74 and the A74(M). In road-numbering lore, the absence of pattern—the discovery that there are so many exceptions to rules that the rules might as well not exist—only seems to revivify the search for inner mysteries. Road buffs talk in reverential tones about "David Craig Numbers" - the elegant theory, named after the man who proposed it, that three digit numbers derive from the roads they connect.<ref>{{cite book |last= Moran |first= Joe |author-link= Joe Moran (social historian) |title= On Roads: A Hidden History |edition= Hardcover |page= 77 |year= 2009 |publisher= Profile Books |location = London |isbn= 978-1-84668-052-6}}</ref>}}