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Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost transcontinental highway in the Interstate Highway System. I-10 is the fourth-longest Interstate in the United States at 2,460.34 miles (3,959.53 km), following I-90, I-80, and I-40. This freeway is part of the originally planned network that was laid out in 1956, and its last section was completed in 1990.
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.
Interstate 10 (I-10 [b]) is the major east–west Interstate Highway in the Southern United States. In the U.S. state of Texas , it runs east from Anthony , at the border with New Mexico , through El Paso , San Antonio , and Houston to the border with Louisiana in Orange .
Secretary Howard M. Gore appointed the Joint Board on Interstate Highways, as recommended by AASHO, on March 2, 1925. The Board was composed of 21 state highway officials and three federal Bureau of Public Roads officials. At the first meeting, on April 20 and 21, the group chose the name "U.S. Highway" as the designation for the routes.
As of 2022, about one quarter of all vehicle miles driven in the country used the Interstate Highway System, [6] which has a total length of 48,890 miles (78,680 km). [2] In 2022 and 2023, the number of fatalities on the Interstate Highway System amounted to more than 5,000 people annually, with nearly 5,600 fatalities in 2022. [7]
Southern California drivers may face travel headaches this week after a large storage yard fire over the weekend shut down part of Interstate 10, one of the major traffic routes for downtown Los ...
I-10 connects Santa Monica, California to Jacksonville, Florida, extending between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans). Auxiliary highways have an added digit prefixing the number of the parent highway. Five route numbers are duplicated in the system; the corresponding highways are in different regions, reducing potential confusion.
Sept. 9, 1960: An aerial view looking northward of the Fort Worth “Mixmaster” where the North-South Freeway (now Interstate 35), Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike (now Interstate 30) and downtown ...