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US route wannabes, 1967 edition (KS)

12/21/2019

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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