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NDOT is responsible for maintaining and improving Nevada's highway system, which includes U.S. highways and Interstate highways within the state's boundaries. The department is notable for its aggressively proactive approach to highway maintenance. Nevada state roads and bridges have also been named some of the nation's best.
SR 73 was eliminated from the state highway system as part of a mass renumbering of Nevada's state routes. The State Route 487 designation was assigned to the former alignment of SR 73 on July 1, 1976. [8] The resulting change in the highway number was first seen on the 1978–79 edition of the official highway map. [9]
Nevada Department of Transportation (January 2017). "State Maintained Highways of Nevada: Descriptions and Maps" Nevada Department of Transportation, Historical Maps; University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada in Maps: Nevada Highway Maps - 1917-2005 Archived June 20, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
In 1976, the Nevada Department of Transportation began an effort to renumber its state highways. In this process, Riverside Road would again be designated a state highway, State Route 170. This designation was applied on July 1, 1976, and was first seen on state highway maps in 1978. [8] [9] The route has remained relatively unchanged since.
However, the Nevada Department of Transportation began renumbering its state highways in the mid 1970s. On July 1, 1976, the road was renumbered again, to State Route 278, the designation it carries today. [11] The number change was first seen on official state highway maps in 1978. [12] The route has remain substantially unchanged since then.
The State highway officially ends here, becoming CR 447 where the roadbed continues as a Washoe county road [6] [7] to the California State Line near the Lassen/Modoc county line. This road is frequently called the Gerlach-Cederville Road. Some maps erroneously list this road as part of State Route 447. [2]
The Nevada Department of Transportation approved the new highway numbers on July 1, 1976, with the route change first shown on the 1978–79 state highway map. [11] [12] The highways have remained unchanged since.
The 24 miles (39 km) of highway northwest of Glendale remained in the state highway system, still marked as State Route 7. [8] After the removal of US 93 from the route, the southerly segment of SR 7 remained unchanged for several years. On July 1, 1976, the Nevada Department of Transportation initiated the renumbering of