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US route wannabes, 1979 edition (AZ)

1/4/2020

In 1979 Arizona asked AASHTO to extend the US 93 designation to Phoenix; following is the route description from the actual meeting minutes:

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The route described above is illustrated on the following map:

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Why and how the Four Corners area US routes should be renumbered (again)

2/22/2017

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It is always instructive to begin by looking at the history of highways in the area, in order to understand how and why the current situation came to be.

The early years
To this day, vast tracts of land in northern Arizona and southern Utah are miles away from any kind of paved road. But the remoteness of this area was even more pronounced back in the late 1920s, when the US routes were first commissioned. At the time, there was no road worth showing on maps between Green River and Salina UT (along today's I-70 corridor). Nor between Cortez CO and Tuba City AZ (the path of modern US 160). Nor to the south from Monticello UT (along today's US 191):

c. 1927, Rand McNally

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Vintage highway sign photos

1/25/2017

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In 2009 my father and my uncle found these photos -- taken by my paternal grandfather during the 1950s -- and gave them to me, knowing I would appreciate them. That was about 20 years after I had begun taking road sign photos of my own, and until then I had the mistaken notion that I was the first in my family to have this strange hobby. Is it possible that this sort of thing can be passed down through bloodlines?

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US route wannabes, 1979 edition (AZ)

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