U.S. 93 Reaching For The Border
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  • Corporate Creators:
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
  • Contributors:
    Weingroff, Richard F.
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    FHWA Highway History Website Articles
  • Resource Type:
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  • Right Statement:
    Public Domain
  • Geographical Coverage:
    United States
  • Corporate Publisher:
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
  • Abstract:
    Until the mid-1920's, the Nation's main interstate roads carried names such as the Lincoln Highway, the Meridian Highway, the National Old Trails Road, the Pacific Highway, the Yellowstone Trails, and hundreds of others. The names were applied by private booster groups, each of which acted as a "chamber of commerce" for its route. With traffic increasing in the 1920's, State and Federal highway officials combined to replace this haphazard and confusing method of designation with a new, uniform method. The result was the U.S. numbered highway system of interstate highways. It was unveiled in October 1925 when the Federal-State task force, called the Joint Board on Interstate Highways, released its report. The Joint Board identified the Nation's main interstate roads and devised a plan for numbering them. East-west routes would be assigned an even number, with the transcontinental and main routes given a number ending in zero (U.S. 10 through U.S. 90, with U.S. 2 in the north to avoid having a U.S. 0). North-south routes were given an odd number, with the main routes ending in "1" (U.S. 1, U.S. 11, U.S. 101, etc.) and multi-State routes of lesser length ending in "5." Other routes were fit within the resulting grid. The original plan worked out by State and Federal highway officials did not employ "93." Because the States owned the roads, the Joint Board's report was forwarded to their national organization, the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO), for approval. Over the next year, AASHO approved many changes proposed by the States. As a result, U.S. 93 was included when AASHO adopted the U.S. numbered highway plan by ballot of the State highway agencies on November 11, 1926.
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