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The highway has major junctions with I-540 at Van Buren (the main highway connecting to Fort Smith), I-49 at Alma (the main highway connecting to Fayetteville and Bentonville), I-30 and I-57 in North Little Rock, and I-55 to Blytheville. For the majority of its routing through Arkansas, I-40 follows the historic alignment of two separate U.S ...
The 2010–2013 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program from the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) lists cable median barrier installation projects along segments of Interstate 30 (I-30), [1] I-40, [2] I-55, [2] I-430, [2] Interstate 540, [3] and US 67 [4] to begin as funds become available.
Some roads in parts of Arkansas were impassable on Thursday, May 5, as heavy overnight rain triggered flash flooding.According to the National Weather Service, the “significant and potentially ...
I-49 in Northwest Arkansas. The first portion of what would become I-49 was completed in the late 1990s and was opened to Mountainburg as AR 540. [3] On January 8, 1999, the road was fully opened to traffic and was re-designated part of an extension of I-540, with the name "John Paul Hammerschmidt Highway", in honor of a former US Representative from Arkansas. [4]
Highway 540 (AR 540, Ark. 540, and Hwy. 540) was a temporary designation for what would later become I-540 between Alma and Mountainburg in the US state of Arkansas. Traveling a distance of approximately 12 miles (19 km), [ citation needed ] its southern terminus was at I-40 west of Alma and its northern terminus at US 71 in Mountainburg.
Arkansas has long had a stigma of poor roads, dating from the "Arkansas Roads Scandal" playing a prominent role in state politics through the 1920s and 1930s, periodic allegations of corruption, waste, and fraud, and a long-running struggle to adequately fund the operation, maintenance and expansion of a large highway system serving a rural state.
Arkansas Highway 16 Spur is a 1.46-mile-long (2.35 km) highway in Fayetteville. [4] Locally known as Wedington Drive, ...
The first segment of the extension from US 278 north to Highway 35 opened as a two-lane expressway designated Arkansas Highway 530 (AR 530) on June 6, 2006. [9] This extension is intended to connect to the proposed southern extension of I-69 ; US 278 at Wilmar also provides four-lane access to the future I-530 from the larger cities of Warren ...