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(last updated 10/3/2023)
If you are familiar with the mileage signs posted at the terminus points of US 6 and US 20, you might point to those and say, "The answer is plain to see: US 20 is 160 miles longer than US 6."
If both of those signs were accurate, then obviously US 20 would be longer. But the fact is, only the US 6 sign is accurate, whereas the US 20 sign significantly overstates the true mileage. In reality, the mileages of the two routes are very close, and in fact there is every reason to believe US 6 is actually a slightly longer route.
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(last updated 8/21/2020)
"One great red line"
For about a quarter-century, US Route 6 was the longest highway in the country (and it may still be, depending how one measures). In Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, the main character described it as "one great red line across America" (which is what inspired the title of my book; see following link):
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