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In the U.S. state of West Virginia, U.S. Route 40 (US 40) runs for 16 miles (26 km) through the Northern Panhandle region. The highway enters the state on the Military Order of the Purple Heart bridge concurrent with US 250, crossing Wheeling Island, before joining Interstate 70 (I-70) over the Fort Henry Bridge before leaving the interstate.
U.S. Route 40 or U.S. Highway 40 (US 40), also known as the Main Street of America (a nickname shared with U.S. Route 66), [3] [4] is a major east–west United States Highway traveling across the United States from the Mountain States to the Mid-Atlantic States. As with most routes whose numbers end in a zero, US 40 once traversed the entire ...
WV 42: 40.7: 65.5 West of Petersburg: Maryland state line 1922: current WV 43 — — — — 1922: 1940 Became part of WV 39 to match Virginia (which had renumbered its side from SR 501 to SR 39); the original plan was to renumber this road as WV 501, but West Virginia could not do that WV 43 — — US 19 at Muddlety: WV 20 at Craigsville
US 40: 16: 26 US 40 at Wheeling: US 40 near West Alexander, Pa. 1926: current US 48: 143: 230 West Virginia Route 93 near Davis: US 48 near Lebanon Church, Va. 2002: current Under construction as part of Corridor H: US 50: 196.20: 315.75 US 50 / SR 32 near Belpre, Ohio: US 50 near Winchester, Va. 1926: current
The Pennsylvania Route 11 designation was also given to the National Road through Pennsylvania, eventually becoming Pennsylvania Route 81 before the road became solely US 40. The road became very popular again in the 1940s, but this only lasted until the 1950s when the Interstate Highway System was put into place. Today, US 40 has been replaced ...
The Fort Henry Bridge is a crossing of the Ohio River main channel in Wheeling, West Virginia. The tied-arch bridge carries two lanes in each direction of Interstate 70 (I-70), U.S. Route 40 (US 40), and US 250. The bridge opened after four years of construction work on September 8, 1955, costing $6.8 million, $1.8 million over budget.
Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...
When the United States Numbered Highway System was created in 1926, the National Road was designated U.S. Route 40 (US 40). The I-70 designation was brought to the Northern Panhandle with the passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 , and it was built as a controlled-access highway , bypassing portions of the old National Road.