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A route (or road) number, designation or abbreviation is an identifying numeric (or alphanumeric) designation assigned by a highway authority to a particular stretch of roadway to distinguish it from other routes and, in many cases, also to indicate its classification (e.g. motorway, primary route, regional road, etc.), general geographical location (in zonal numbering systems) and/or ...
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In 1918, Wisconsin became the first state to number its highways in the field followed by Michigan the following year. [1] In 1926 the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) established and numbered interstate routes (United States Numbered Highways), selecting the best roads in each state that could be connected to provide a national network of federal highways.
Crescent for a crescent-shaped road; Bypass for a dual carriageway or motorway that bypasses a nearby village, city or town; Close for a cul-de-sac only; Square for a square only; Hill for a hillside road only; Mews provided it does not repeat the name of the road from which access is gained; Vale for residential roads (only for exceptional ...
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A road can switch names multiple times as local opinion changes regarding its destination: for example, the road between Oxford and Banbury changes name five times from the Banbury Road to the Oxford Road and back again as it passes through villages. Some streets are named after the areas that the street connects.
The official name is the naming format typically used by the county road commission, county road department, or the general public, and is what should be used to refer the highway in article prose. The article title is a disambiguated form obviously used for article naming, and should only be used in article prose if a sentence would otherwise ...
Never use a colloquial title other than those listed above, unless you are adding a mention of its existence to the article. Official nicknames for highways (i.e. Golden State Freeway, Tri-State Tollway, New Jersey Turnpike) may be used if the DOT uses it. However, colloquial names such as The Loneliest Road in America should not be used.