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The Arkansas Highway System is made up of all the highways designated as Interstates, U.S. Highways and State Highways in the US state of Arkansas.The system is maintained by the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT), known as the Arkansas State Highway Department (AHD) until 1977 and the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) from 1977 to 2017.
US 62 at Oklahoma state line: US 62 at Missouri state line near St. Francis: 1930 [citation needed] current US 63: 388: 624 US 167 at Junction City: US 63 at Missouri state line near Mammoth Spring: 1926 [citation needed] current US 64: 246.35: 396.46 US 64 at Oklahoma state line near Fort Smith: US 64 at Tennessee state line near Memphis, TN
Arkansas state highway suffixed routes are signed using standard state highway shield backgrounds. The number remains the same size and a letter is added in an almost- exponential format. Shield sizes remain, one-digit routes keep the 24-by-24-inch (61 cm × 61 cm) shields, while two-digit routes become 24-by-36-inch (61 cm × 91 cm).
I-40 at the Oklahoma state line: I-40 at the Tennessee state line 1964: current Goes through Van Buren, Russellville, Conway, North Little Rock, ends at Hernando de Soto Bridge crossing the Mississippi River: Future I-42: 22: 35 I-42 at the Oklahoma state line: I-49/US 62/US 71 in Sprindgale: proposed — Future route along US 412: I-49: 109.81 ...
Arkansas has long had a stigma of poor roads, dating from the "Arkansas Roads Scandal" playing a prominent role in state politics through the 1920s and 1930s, periodic allegations of corruption, waste, and fraud, and a long-running struggle to adequately fund the operation, maintenance and expansion of a large highway system serving a rural state.
Under a 1909 law, the State Highway Board surveyed a connected network of proposed state roads, [19] The legislature added most of these routes to the state highway system in 1913, when they formed a two-tiered system of primary and secondary roads. Primary roads were completely controlled by the state, including maintenance, and received only ...
The highway system is defined through acts by the state legislature and is encoded in the Revised Code of Washington as State Routes (SR). It was created in 1964 to replace an earlier numbering scheme and ratified by the state legislature in 1970. The system's 196 highways are almost entirely paved, with the exception of a gravel section on SR 165.
The United States Numbered Highway System was approved and established on November 11, 1926 by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) and included eleven routes traveling through Washington. [1] [3] In 1961, the state introduced a set of route markers in Olympia that were colored based on destination and direction rather ...