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Illinois's state route numbers originated in 1918 as State Bond Issues 1 through 46, used to finance the new roads. The numbers of the bond issues were then used to mark the highway routes along the way. Another series of bond issues were authorized in 1924 (47–185) and again were used to mark the roads they paid for.
1926-1927 Automobile Blue Book (also covers New York state): 1926 map is before U.S. Highways were designated and 1927 map is after - Polaron (talk · contribs) 1939 Rand McNally (Sunoco) (everything east of Chicago and north of TN/NC) 25or6to4 ( talk · contribs )
An embankment is a raised wall, bank or mound made of earth or stones, that are used to hold back water or carry a roadway. A road , railway line , or canal is normally raised onto an embankment made of compacted soil (typically clay or rock-based) to avoid a change in level required by the terrain , the alternatives being either to have an ...
SH 178 at New Mexico–Texas state line 1991: current International crossing at Santa Teresa Port of Entry NM 137: 55.007: 88.525 New Mexico–Texas state line (north entrance to Guadalupe Mountains National Park) US 285 near Seven Rivers — — NM 138 — — Thompson Cone: NM 61 in Sherman — 1947 NM 138: 0.670: 1.078 Las Cruces: Las Cruces
The State Highway System was created in 1918 with the first State Bond Issue (SBI) Routes, 1 through 46. Bonds were floated to pay for specific routes. SBI # 1 paid for Route 1, and so on.
U.S. Routes in the U.S. state of New Mexico account for 2,980.838 miles (4,797.194 km) of the state highway system. The first United States Numbered Highways U.S. Routes were formed in 1926, [1] and served as the primary thoroughfares across the entire state. Twenty six of the 33 counties in New Mexico are
State Road 475 (NM 475) is a 16.907-mile-long (27.209 km) state highway in the US state of New Mexico. NM 475's western terminus is at U.S. Route 84 (US 84) and US 285 in Santa Fe , and the eastern terminus is a dead end at Santa Fe Ski Basin .
In 2006, the Virginia General Assembly directed the Secretary of Transportation to initiate a study to determine the interest of affected states in the construction of a new Interstate highway (I-99). [23] [24] [25] I-99 would allow long-distance travelers to bypass the I-95 bottleneck in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.