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A special route of the United States Numbered Highway System is a route that branches off a U.S. Highway in order to divert traffic from the main highway. Special routes are distinguished from main routes by, in most cases, the addition of an auxiliary plate that describes what type of route it is, while the main highway carries no such sign.
In road transportation in the United States, a special route is a road in a numbered highway system that diverts a specific segment of related traffic away from another road. They are featured in many highway systems; most are found in the Interstate Highway System , U.S. highway system , and several state highway systems .
Follows the East Coast of the United States, longest north-south US Highway US 2: 2,112: 3,399 I-5/SR 529 in Everett, WA: I-75 in St. Ignace, MI: 1926: current Western segment US 2: 460: 740 US 11 in Rouses Point, NY: I-95 in Houlton, ME: 1926: current Eastern segment US 3: 273: 439 Route 2A/Route 3 in Cambridge
Within the route log, "U.S. Route" is used in the table of contents, while "United States Highway" appears as the heading for each route. All reports of the Special Committee on Route Numbering since 1989 use "U.S. Route", and federal laws relating to highways use "United States Route" or "U.S. Route" more often than the "Highway" variants.
Pages in category "Special routes of the United States Numbered Highway System" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,887 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Special routes of U.S. Route 1; Special routes of U.S. Route 2; Special routes of U.S. Route 3; Special routes of U.S. Route 4; Special routes of U.S. Route 5
Some U.S. Routes are given directional suffixes to indicate a split of the main route — for instance, U.S. Route 25 (US 25) splits into US 25E (east) and US 25W (west) between Newport, Tennessee, and North Corbin, Kentucky, and US 9W is an alternate of U.S. Route 9 between Fort Lee, New Jersey, and Albany, New York.
Business US Highway 66 (also "City US 66" until 1960) was an old alignment of U.S. Route 66 in Springfield, Missouri. In 1948, US 66 was moved from downtown (it followed Glenstone Avenue, St. Louis Street, College Street, and Chestnut Expressway) onto a new alignment onto Kearney Street (now Route 744 ) and West Bypass and the old highway ...