Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
About three-and-a-half months after their first full meeting was held in Washington, D.C., members of the Joint Board on Interstate Highways reconvened in the nation’s capital to assess and address the next crucial steps for shaping a coast-to-coast uniform highway system. This gathering of federal and state highway officials took place at the office of... Continue Reading →
US Route 66 (US 66), known far and wide today as simply Route 66, was one of the original routes of the United States Numbered Highway System to be approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) in 1926 and formally authorized and announced by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads early the... Continue Reading →
U.S. Route 1 (US 1) was one of the major north-south routes of the of the newly created United States Numbered Highway System to be officially authorized by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on New Year’s Day in 1927. US 1 – also known extensively early... Continue Reading →
