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The number logic behind the United States’ highways, and how travellers can use it

The United States’ system of numbered highways is a foundational part of the country’s transportation network. Composing multiple tiers, such as Interstate Highways, US Highways, state highways, and ...

70 years of the interstate: How the US highway system built the America we know

Seventy years ago, on June 29, 1956, President Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, aka the National ...

As Route 66 turns 100, what is it that we’re actually celebrating?

Working in concert, the American Association of State Highway Officials and the Bureau of Public Roads adopted a uniform ...