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The following are systems of state highways maintained and numbered by each U.S. state, territory or district. The naming conventions listed below may be supplemented by guidelines of individual state highway task forces under the U.S. Roads WikiProject (please see WP:USRD/SUB for a list).
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.
Depending on the state, "state highway" may be used for one meaning and "state road" or "state route" for the other. In some countries such as New Zealand, the word "state" is used in its sense of a sovereign state or country. By this meaning a state highway is a road maintained and numbered by the national government rather than local authorities.
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.
Route includes Cape May–Lewes Ferry across the Delaware Bay; New York signs the northern end at a dead-ending parking lot just south of the border crossing US 10: 711 [c] 1,144 I-94/BL I-94/US 52 in West Fargo, ND: I-75/BL I-75/US 23/M-25 near Bay City, MI: 1926: current Route includes the SS Badger across Lake Michigan: US 11: 1,645 [d] 2,647
A route (or road) number, designation or abbreviation is an identifying numeric (or alphanumeric) designation assigned by a highway authority to a particular stretch of roadway to distinguish it from other routes and, in many cases, also to indicate its classification (e.g. motorway, primary route, regional road, etc.), general geographical location (in zonal numbering systems) and/or ...
The reason for this is that the names of individual routes are proper nouns (names of individual things are proper nouns), but the generic term is not (X state route is a specific type of state route but not a specific state route in X, it is a generic term used for any X state route) An easier way to understand this is since we don't ...
See three-way junction 5-1-1 A transportation and traffic information telephone hotline in some regions of the United States and Canada that was initially designated for road weather information. A Access road See frontage road Advisory speed limit A speed recommendation by a governing body. All-way stop or four-way stop An intersection system where traffic approaching it from all directions ...