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Under a 1909 law, the State Highway Board surveyed a connected network of proposed state roads, [19] The legislature added most of these routes to the state highway system in 1913, when they formed a two-tiered system of primary and secondary roads. Primary roads were completely controlled by the state, including maintenance, and received only ...
The Interstate Highways in Washington are segments of the national Interstate Highway System that lie within the U.S. state of Washington.The system comprises 764 miles (1,230 km) on seven routes that are owned and maintained by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT); the design standards and numbering across the national system are managed by the Federal Highway ...
The United States Numbered Highway System in Washington covers 1,870 miles (3,009.5 km) and consists of eight highways, divided into four primary routes and four auxiliary routes. The United States Numbered Highway System was approved and established on November 11, 1926 by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) and ...
The highway system is defined through acts by the state legislature and is encoded in the Revised Code of Washington as State Routes (SR). It was created in 1964 to replace an earlier numbering scheme and ratified by the state legislature in 1970. The system's 196 highways are almost entirely paved, with the exception of a gravel section on SR 165.
The Federal Highway Administration had tentatively numbered the route as "Interstate 105", but the Washington State Department of Transportation had requested the use of "705" as it would not conflict with SR 105, an existing highway. [18] [19] The Washington State Legislature approved the addition of I-705 into the state highway system in ...
The Pacific Highway, an inter-state coastal highway, was championed by good roads advocates in the early 1910s and added to the state highway system in 1913. [32] [33] It originally followed the Puyallup and Green rivers from Tacoma to Renton and the Bothell–Everett Highway (now SR 527) along North Creek in Snohomish County.
This road was approved and built in 1897, making it one of the oldest state roads in Washington state. [25] In 1905, the road became known as State Road 1 and was incorporated into the first state highway system. [26] By 1907, the road was named the White River – Natches Road and was shortened to end at Cedar Springs.
State Route 113 (SR 113), also known as Burnt Mountain Road, is a Washington state highway in Clallam County on the Olympic Peninsula. It connects U.S. Route 101 (US 101) at Sappho to SR 112 near Clallam Bay , traveling north along Beaver Creek and the Pysht River for 10 miles (16 km).