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An Adopt-A-Highway sign on Interstate 8. 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 ...
In July 2009, VDOT closed 19 of its rest areas around the state, leaving some stretches of highway, such as I-81 which is a popular route for trucks, or the heavily traveled and often congested I-95 northbound between Washington, D.C. and Richmond, a distance of 106 miles (171 km), without a rest stop. Drivers complained that people who needed ...
A sign honoring a former convict who was executed for killing a police officer was up for several months in 2022. MoDOT is reviewing the program.
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. It does NOT imply that you own the article or are the top expert on that route. It may, however, be a good idea to adopt articles of routes that you have a degree of familiarity with.
Multiple Missouri lawmakers are reportedly preparing legislation to name several highways after President-elect Trump in the new year. The most expansive reported bill would bestow Trump's name on ...
Oct. 21—On Wednesday, Caltrans announced a new Clean California pilot program that will give Adopt-a-Highway volunteers up to $250 for picking up highway litter. As part of Gov. Gavin Newsom's ...
Gerton is the site of North Carolina's longest-running Adopt-A-Highway program, started in 1988. US 74A's routing in Henderson County is brief, lasting for approximately 6.7 miles. It first encounters the unincorporated community of Gerton , becoming Gerton Highway , at the head of a narrow gorge and at Hickory Creek, which will later become ...
The state highway system of the U.S. state of Virginia is a network of roads maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). As of 2006, the VDOT maintains 57,867 miles (93,128 km) of state highways , [ 1 ] making it the third-largest system in the United States .