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[edit] February 2006
U.S. Route 66 was one of the original 1926 highways and was decommissioned in 1985 when it was completely bypassed by interstates. It is now designated an historic route for its entire length of 2,347 miles. Promoted as the "Main Street of America" and immortalized by John Steinbeck as the "Mother Road", it has been the subject of a television show, a popular song, and numerous books. It has also given its name to a gasoline company and two sports teams.
[edit] March 2006
U.S. Route 1 runs from Key West, Florida to Fort Kent, Maine for a total of 2,390 miles (3,846 kilometers). Although it has the lowest number and should, in theory, be along the Atlantic Ocean, U.S. Route 13 and U.S. Route 17 at times are between US 1 and the ocean. The highway parallels the later Interstate 95 for much of its length and serves numerous cities along the east coast.
[edit] April 2006
The General Pulaski Skyway, commonly referred to as the Pulaski Skyway, is a series of cantilever truss bridges in New Jersey that carry four lanes of U.S. Highways U.S. Route 1 and 9 for 5.6 km (3.5 miles) between the far east side of Newark and Tonnelle Circle in Jersey City. It is considered by many to be the first "super highway" in the United States and is still in use in its original form.
[edit] May 2006
The Kansas Turnpike is a 236-mile (380 km) toll road entirely within the U.S. state of Kansas. The turnpike runs northeasterly from the Oklahoma border to the western fringes of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The Kansas Turnpike Authority (KTA), estimates that 120,000 drivers use the turnpike each day. The entire route is part of the Interstate system, although the Turnpike carries four different Interstate designations along its length.
[edit] June-October 2006
Interstate 95 (abbreviated I-95) is an Interstate Highway that runs 1,927 miles (3,101 kilometers) north-south along the east coast of the United States between Miami, Florida and Houlton, Maine. It is one of the best-known, most important, and most heavily travelled highways in the Interstate system. It serves and connects the major cities along the Northeast corridor, and it is the major north-south highway along the east coast. It is the longest north-south Interstate highway (five east-west routes are longer), and it passes through more states (15) than any other Interstate. As it passes through CT and RI, it actually runs East/West but still keeps it odd numeral designation. I-84 runs east/west through the same area, parallels I-95, however has an even numeral designation.
[edit] November-December 2006
New York State Route 104 is a 182-mile (292.8 km) long east-west highway in Upstate New York, USA. The entire length of the road was designated U.S. Route 104 until 1972, except for locations near Rochester where the highway has since been moved onto expressways. NY 104 travels from New York State Route 384 near the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls in Niagara County to New York State Route 13 near Altmar in Oswego County. Route 104 primarily runs parallel to the south shore of Lake Ontario throughout most of its route between the Niagara River in Niagara Falls and the Oswego River in Oswego.
Before US 104 was created, the roadway carried a number of designations, namely New York State Route 3, New York State Route 18 and New York State Route 31. All three of these routes were reconfigured to allow for the designation of US 104.
Over time, the 104 designation has been shifted from surface streets to expressways and Super-2s, particularly from Rochester east to Oswego. The first such realignment occurred in the late 1940s in western Wayne County and was completed by the realignment of NY 104 onto the Irondequoit-Wayne County Expressway near Webster in the early 1980s.
[edit] January 2007
State Route 37 (SR-37) in the northern part of the U.S. State of California runs twenty-one miles along the northern shore of San Pablo Bay and is currently built from U.S. Route 101 in Novato, California to Interstate 80 in Vallejo, California. It serves as a crucial bypass around the northern end of the San Francisco Bay Area.
[edit] February 2007
Interstate 295 (abbreviated I-295) in New Jersey and Delaware is a bypass route from a junction with Interstate 95 south of Wilmington, Delaware to another junction with I-95 north of Trenton, New Jersey. The route runs parallel with the New Jersey Turnpike for most of its course.
Interstate 295 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway, designated as a beltway around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Interstate 95 serves the city directly, connecting it with Wilmington and Trenton, whereas I-295 bypasses the city running east of the Delaware River. Interstate 95 was originally supposed to continue northeast from the routes' junction near Trenton on the proposed Somerset Freeway, but this plan was cancelled, limiting I-295's capability as a true bypass between Baltimore and New York City.
Today, traffic on Interstate 295 is directed to take Interstate 195 (or surface street connections further south) to the New Jersey Turnpike to reach New York City. The same route is prescribed for traffic on I-95 in Pennsylvania and near Trenton to bridge the gap with I-95 further north.
