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U.S. Route 40 or U.S. Highway 40 (US 40), also known as the Main Street of America (a nickname shared with U.S. Route 66), [3] [4] is a major east–west United States Highway traveling across the United States from the Mountain States to the Mid-Atlantic States. As with most routes whose numbers end in a zero, US 40 once traversed the entire ...
Also included is additional data on the length of each country or region's controlled-access highway network (also known as a motorway, expressway, freeway, etc.), designed for high vehicular traffic. Unless otherwise noted, the data is from the United States's Central Intelligence Agency. [1] * indicates Roads in Country/Territory links.
Interstate 40 (I-40) is a major east–west transcontinental Interstate Highway in the southeastern and southwestern portions of the United States. At a length of 2,556.61 miles (4,114.46 km), it is the third-longest Interstate Highway in the country, after I-90 and I-80 .
The Interstate Highway System gained a champion in President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was influenced by his experiences as a young Army officer crossing the country in the 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy that drove in part on the Lincoln Highway, the first road across America. He recalled that, "The old convoy had started me thinking about ...
A map of the United States' Interstate Highways as of 1 October 1970. Numbered highways in the United States; List of Interstate Highways; List of United States Numbered Highways; Further information: Interstate Highway System; United States Numbered Highway System; Historic trails and roads in the United States
Texas State Highway 40. Texas State Highway Loop 40; Farm to Market Road 40; Urban Road 40 (signed as Farm to Market Road 40) Texas Park Road 40; Utah State Route 40 (former) Virginia State Route 40. Virginia State Route 40 (1923-1933) (former) West Virginia Route 40 (1920s) (former) Wisconsin Highway 40; Territories. Puerto Rico Highway 40; U ...
Federal Highway 40, (Carretera Federal, Fed. 40) also called the Carretera Interoceánica (Interoceanic Highway), is a road beginning at Reynosa , Tamaulipas , just west of the Port of Brownsville , Texas , and ending at Fed. 15 in Villa Unión , Sinaloa , near Mazatlán and the Pacific coast.
King's Highway 40, commonly referred to as Highway 40, is a provincially maintained highway in the southwestern portion of the Canadian province of Ontario. The 91.4-kilometre (56.8 mi) route links Chatham and Sarnia via Wallaceburg , following close to the St. Clair River .