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An abandoned early Route 66 alignment in central Illinois in 2006. U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) was a United States Numbered Highway in Illinois that connected St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois. The historic Route 66, the Mother Road or Main Street of America, took long distance automobile travelers from Chicago to Southern California.
The Kochi New Bypass also known as Angamaly-Kundannoor Bypass is a proposed partially-controlled-greenfield corridor or highway in the Ernakulam district, Kerala, India. [1] The highway will pass through sparsely populated areas avoiding Kochi city completely and is expected to reduce the traffic on the NH 544 and NH 66 .
Alternate U.S. Route 66 was a designation to preserve the next-to-last routing of U.S. 66 from Pasadena, California to Los Angeles, California, when the signage for U.S. 66 was transferred to the Arroyo Seco Parkway (also known as the Pasadena Freeway, which alignment lasted from 1938 to 1964, when Alternate U.S. 66 was eliminated as well as Historic Arroyo Seco Parkway into SR 11, and became ...
Now: Truxton, Arizona. Truxton wasn't much of anything until the 1950s postwar car boom, and then became one among many Route 66 cities bypassed by the construction of Interstate 40 in 1979.
IDOT District maps still refer to SBI numbers on the various roads it maintains, along with other non-posted designations that refer to how the route was authorized. Bridge weight plates refer to SBI numbers instead of posted route numbers as well. For example, bridge plates along old US-66 refer to the route as "SBI-4"
Lost Braceville US 66/IL 129 bridge. More photos here. SBI Route 129 originally ran from Effingham to Windsor.It was replaced by Illinois Route 32 in 1937. [3]In 1957, the number was reused for a former alignment of U.S. Route 66 that ran from Gardner to Wilmington, when US 66 was rerouted onto a new freeway alignment that passed to the west of Braceville and Braidwood.
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The original State Bond Issue Route 126 (SBI 126) opened in 1929 to carry the then-new US 66 from Springfield to Litchfield, bypassing the numerous towns along IL 4. [3] Initially, this road was marked as both US 66 and IL 126. [4] In 1934, the concurrency of IL 126 was removed, and this road was known only as US 66. [2]