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In 1952, AASHO permanently recognized the splits in US 11, [15] US 19, US 25, US 31, US 45, US 49, US 73, and US 99. [ 15 ] For the most part, the U.S. Routes were the primary means of inter-city vehicle travel; the main exceptions were toll roads such as the Pennsylvania Turnpike and parkway routes such as the Merritt Parkway .
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.
US 1: 2,369: 3,813 Fleming and Whitehead streets in Key West, FL: Route 161 at Canadian border in Fort Kent, ME: 1926: current Follows the East Coast of the United States, longest north-south US Highway US 2: 2,112: 3,399 I-5/SR 529 in Everett, WA: I-75 in St. Ignace, MI: 1926: current Western segment US 2: 460: 740 US 11 in Rouses Point, NY
In 1926, the United States Numbered Highway System was established, creating the first national road numbering system for cross-country travel. The roads were funded and maintained by U.S. states, and there were few national standards for road design. United States Numbered Highways ranged from two-lane country roads to multi-lane freeways.
Special routes of the United States Numbered Highway System (1,887 P) Bridges of the United States Numbered Highway System (1 C, 423 P) Divided U.S. Highways (1 C, 71 P)
Example of an original U.S. Route shield, with the state name of "Michigan" and route number of "27" displayed in the original block font. The original design of the shield was presented in the January 1927 edition of the Manual and Specifications for the Manufacture, Display, and Erection of U.S. Standard Road Markers and Signs, the precursor to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices ...
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Some U.S. Routes are given directional suffixes to indicate a split of the main route — for instance, U.S. Route 25 (US 25) splits into US 25E (east) and US 25W (west) between Newport, Tennessee and North Corbin, Kentucky, and US 9W is an alternate of U.S. Route 9 between Fort Lee, New Jersey and Albany, New York.