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U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (US 66 or Route 66) was one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System. It was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. [ 3 ]
U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) is a part of a former United States Numbered Highway in the state of California that ran from the west in Santa Monica on the Pacific Ocean through Los Angeles and San Bernardino to Needles at the Arizona state line. It was truncated during the 1964 renumbering and its signage removed in 1974.
The route sign, 1926–1948. The Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona was established in February 1987 and dedicated to the U.S. Route 66 in Arizona.The Arizona association was instrumental in making the Seligman-Kingman stretch of Route 66 to be officially recognized as "Historic Route 66" later that year, a designation subsequently extended to the whole Route 66 in Arizona.
The National Historic Route 66 Federation was founded in 1995 for the purpose of saving the businesses, communities and roadbed of U.S. Route 66. The famous road carried travelers across much of the country from the day it was commissioned on November 11, 1926 through June 25, 1985 when it was decommissioned.
The historic U.S. Route 66 (US-66, Route 66), sometimes known as the Will Rogers Highway after Oklahoma native Will Rogers, ran from west to northeast across the state of Oklahoma, along the path now taken by Interstate 40 (I-40) and State Highway 66 (SH-66). It passed through Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and many smaller communities.
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Pennsylvania Route 66 Business (PA 66 Bus. ) is an 8-mile-long (13 km) business route in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania , connected two fingers of suburbia located east of Pittsburgh . The highway was signed PA 66 Business after PA 66 was shifted onto a newly created toll road bypass.
The choice for the number I-66 was a hope to capitalize on the name association with the decommissioned "Route 66" (U.S. 66). The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Highwway Administration (FHWA) originally studied the extension of the existing Interstate 66 in the original Trans America Transportation Corridor Feasibility Study ...