Portal:U.S. roads/Selected article
Previous selected articles of the U.S. Roads Portal.
February, 2006
U.S. Route 66 was one of the original 1926 highways and was decommissioned in 1985 when it was completely bypassed by interstates. It is now designated an historic route for its entire length of 2,347 miles. Promoted as the "Main Street of America" and immortalized by John Steinbeck as the "Mother Road", it has been the subject of a television show, a popular song, and numerous books. It has also given its name to a gasoline company and two sports teams.
March 2006
U.S. Route 1 runs from Key West, Florida to Fort Kent, Maine for a total of 2,390 miles (3,846 kilometers). Although it has the lowest number and should, in theory, be along the Atlantic Ocean, U.S. Route 13 and U.S. Route 17 at times are between US 1 and the ocean. The highway parallels the later Interstate 95 for much of its length and serves numerous cities along the east coast.
April 2006
The General Pulaski Skyway, commonly referred to as the Pulaski Skyway, is a series of cantilever truss bridges in New Jersey that carry four lanes of U.S. Highways U.S. Route 1 and 9 for 5.6 km (3.5 miles) between the far east side of Newark and Tonnelle Circle in Jersey City. It is considered by many to be the first "super highway" in the United States and is still in use in its original form.
May 2006
The Kansas Turnpike is a 236-mile (380 km) toll road entirely within the U.S. state of Kansas. The turnpike runs northeasterly from the Oklahoma border to the western fringes of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The Kansas Turnpike Authority (KTA), estimates that 120,000 drivers use the turnpike each day. The entire route is part of the Interstate system, although the Turnpike carries four different Interstate designations along its length.