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The highway system of the United States consists of US routes and interstates. In addition, all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands all maintain their own systems. Despite their names, US routes and interstates are the responsibility of the state department of transportation where they are located.
The US Routes (also known as U.S. Highways) are even numbered for east-west routes (with the lowest numbers along Canada) and are odd numbered for north-south routes (with the lowest numbers along the Atlantic Ocean). Three-digit highways, also known as "child routes," are branches off their main two-digit "parents" (for example, U.S. Route 271 is a branch of U.S. Route 71).
Interstates are also even numbered for east-west routes (but the lowest numbers are along Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico), and the odd-numbered routes are north-south routes (with the lowest numbers along the Pacific Ocean). Three-digit interstates are, generally, either beltways or spurs of their parent interstates (for example, Interstate 270 is a beltway around the city of Columbus, Ohio, and is connected to Interstate 70).
Each state and territory has its own system for numbering highways, some more systematic than others. Each state also has its own design for its highway markers; the number in a circle is the default sign, but many choose a different design somehow connected to their state. Many use an outline of the state with the number inside.
Approximately 10,000 articles have been written on interstate, US, and state roads.
M-35 is a state trunkline highway in the Upper Peninsula (UP) of the U.S. state of Michigan. Running for 127.99 miles (205.98 km) in a general north–south direction, it connects the cities of Menominee, Escanaba and Negaunee. The southern section of M-35 in Menominee and Delta counties carries two additional designations. M-35 forms a segment of the Lake Michigan Circle Tour, and it is the UP Hidden Coast Recreational Heritage Trail, which is a part of the Michigan Heritage Routes system. Along the southern section, the highway is the closest trunkline to the Bay of Green Bay, a section of Lake Michigan, and is also the shortest route between Menominee and Escanaba. The northern section of the highway turns inland through wooded terrain, connecting rural portions of Delta and Marquette counties.
M-35 is an original state trunkline that was first designated on 1 July 1919, originally intended to run from Menominee in the south to near Big Bay in the north, before turning toward L'Anse to end at Ontonagon. However, the section through the Huron Mountains in northern Marquette and Baraga counties was never built. Automobile pioneer Henry Ford helped halt this construction to gain favor with and membership in the exclusive Huron Mountain Club. Some discontinuous sections were later ceded to local control. The northern segment of the route between Ontonagon and Baraga was retained as a discontinuous segment of the highway; this northern segment was redesignated as another state trunkline. The northern end was rerouted out of the City of Negaunee into Negaunee Township to avoid mining activity near Palmer.
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A sign gantry removed from its normal position above I-35 in Norman, Oklahoma, and lying in the right-of-way between the Interstate and its service road. The support which the sign is typically mounted on is visible in the background
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- ... that Pennsylvania Route 402 used part of what is now U.S. Route 209 in Minisink Hills?
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- ... that County Route 18 in Otsego County, New York has three suffixed route that all cross county lines along with itself?
- ... that that M-117 was dedicated in 1993 to the deactivated 117th Quartermaster Battalion formerly based out of Kingsford, Michigan?
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- January 3 - Governor Gregoire threatens to tear down the Alaskan Way Viaduct by 2012 if it is not replaced by then.[1]
- January 19 - A groundbreaking ceremony is held to begin the extension of California State Route 52.[2]
- February 21 - The western part of the Greensboro Urban Loop, including the new I-40 bypass, finally opens.[3]
- March 14 - House Bill 61 passes the Utah Legislature restoring the U.S. Route 89A designation to what had been signed State Route 11. With this change U.S. 89A is again a true alternate route connecting to U.S. 89 at both ends.[4]
- April 6 - The Dewey Bridge is destroyed by a brush fire started by a 7 year old playing with matches. The bridge, built in 1916, was the longest suspension bridge in Utah and believed to be the oldest bridge across the Colorado River still in use.[5][6]
- May 3 - The new HOT lanes open along Washington State Route 167 from Auburn to Renton. The new HOT lanes are the first in Washington and may lead to more future HOT lanes soon.[7]
- June 6 — The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and the Ontonagon County Road Commission transfer jurisdiction of M-107 from MDOT to the OCRC, decommissioning the M-107 designation after 72 years of existence.[8]
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- ^ Gregoire: 'Watch me' tear down the viaduct
- ^ Extension of Route 52 about to begin
- ^ Greensboro News & Record, New section of I-40 now open, February 21, 2008
- ^ HB 61
- ^ The Dewey Bridge on highway 128 burned down last night - Mtbr.com Forums
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- ^ SR 167 HOT Lane Project WSDOT. Retrieved May 3, 2008.
- ^ Effective date of transfer: June 4, 2008 Roadway segment transferred from MDOT to the Ontonagon County Road Commission, becoming a County Primary road: M-107, from its western terminus at the Lake of the Clouds Overlook contact station in the Porcupine Mountains State Park, easterly to the centerline of M-64, a distance of 9.58 miles, in control section 66061, comprising the entirety of M-107.
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