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The Adopt-A-Highway program allows any organization to participate, which became a point of controversy when the Ku Klux Klan adopted a portion of Interstate 55 just south of St. Louis, Missouri. While legally the program had to uphold the groups' rights to participate, public outcry and repeated destruction of its sign was a cause of concern.
The original office consisted of four employees and an annual budget of $10,000. Its mission was to study the state roads and the science of road construction. The Department of Highways created the first Ohio State Highway Patrol in an attempt to reduce the number of automobile-related fatalities in 1933. By the end of the year, the first ...
Adoption is a way to keep all articles clean from virtual trash, like real-life Adopt-A-Highway programs keep highways free of litter. Adopting a highway means that you volunteer to keep that article up to current project standards (both USRD and WP:IH/WP:USH standards) and free of vandalism.
U.S. Routes in Ohio are the components of the United States Numbered Highway System that are located in the U.S. state of Ohio. They are owned by the state, and maintained by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) except in cities.
The highway is immediately concurrent with US 52. 2.4 miles (3.9 km) later, the highway gains an additional concurrency with US 68, which crosses the river via the William H. Harsha Bridge. At Ripley , US 52 leaves the concurrency, at which point US 62 and US 68 head north for 5.3 miles (8.5 km) as a generally rural two-lane highway.
In Ohio, the highway runs 194.27 miles (312.65 km) from the Ohio River in Cincinnati to the Michigan state line north of West Unity. US 127 runs south to north in Ohio's westernmost counties along the border of Indiana. The highway is a main route connecting many small towns, including eight county seats. The highway was first designated in 1926.
State Route 104 (SR 104) is a north–south highway in Southern Ohio. Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 23 (US 23) in Portsmouth , Ohio and its northern terminus is at US 33 in Columbus . The route passes through or close to the towns of Portsmouth, Waverly , Chillicothe , Grove City , and Columbus.
The road is owned and maintained by the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission (OTIC), headquartered in Berea. [a] Built from 1949 to 1955, construction for the roadway was completed a year prior to the Interstate Highway Act. The modern Ohio Turnpike is signed as three Interstate highways: I-76, I-80 and I-90.