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Montana's secondary system was established in 1942, [4] but secondary highways (S routes) were not signed until the 1960s. [1] S route designations first appeared on the state highway map in 1960 [5] and are abbreviated as "S-nnn". Route numbers 201 and higher are, with very few exceptions, exclusively reserved for S routes.
At 706.272 mi (1,136.635 km), [1] Montana Highway 200 is also the longest route signed as a state highway in the United States. Highway 200 helps to connect many small towns located in central Montana and the vast plains area of eastern Montana , to larger western Montana cities such as Great Falls and Missoula .
The commission's budget was $5,000 per year. In July 1916, the First Federal Road Act gave $1.5 million to construct roads and bridges. The commission was expanded in March 1917 to include 12 members and a three-person executive committee. In 1919, a State Highway Department was formed. Four districts were created to cover the entire state.
Mar. 4—The state Department of Transportation has had to slow its plan to install speed cameras in construction zones. After the deaths of two construction workers over a six-month period, the ...
The Washington State Department of Transportation bought the trackage within that state in June 2007, and kept the Washington and Idaho Railway as the operator. [7] It also has access to an ex- Union Pacific Railroad line west from Pullman to Risbeck (also formerly owned by the PCC) for railcar storage .
Secondary highways first appeared on the state highway map in 1960, [1] even though the secondary system was established in 1942. [2] With very few exceptions, notably MT 287 and the former MT 789, Montana state highways numbered 201 and higher are secondary highways. North on S-486 in Columbia Falls, August 2013
The Interstate Highways in Montana are the segments of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways owned and maintained by the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) in the U.S. state of Montana. The state's Interstate highways, totaling 1,198 miles (1,928 km), were built between 1956 and 1988 at a cost of $1 ...
Interstate 90 (I-90) is an east–west transcontinental Interstate Highway across the northern United States, linking Seattle to Boston.The portion in the state of Montana is 552.54 miles (889.23 km) in length, passing through 14 counties in central and southern Montana.