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US highway 50: its mileage(s) and its midpoint(s)

3/8/2020

US 50 is one of the longest highways in the U.S. How long is it? Well, there's actually some debate on that (this page has more details about why that is).

Both the Maryland and California state departments of transportation have placed reciprocal mileage signs at the terminus points, each claiming the total distance is 3073 miles. This photo was taken in Ocean City MD, looking along the east beginning of US 50...

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US route wannabes, 1967 edition (KS)

12/21/2019

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In 1967 the US 270 designation was at its maximum extent, from Pine Bluff AR to Syracuse KS. That year the Kansas DOT petitioned AASHO* to extend the US 270 designation even further:

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US 400: its number is not the only error

4/11/2018

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The easternmost of US 400's many overlaps with other US routes.

On a recent roadtrip along US 400, my son asked me, "Isn't 400 kind of a weird number for a highway?" Apparently even non-roadgeeks sense that there is something wrong with the US 400 designation. But it goes beyond that. This post examines all of the things that are wrong with US 400: not only its number, but also its purpose, its implementation, its intra-state nature, its collateral damage, and its amount of concurrent mileage with other US routes. But I'm getting ahead of myself; let's start from the beginning...

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US highway 50: its mileage(s) and its midpoint(s)

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US 400: its number is not the only error

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