On The Right Side of the Road

by Richard F. Weingroff

The Federal Highway Administration has often been asked about the American practice of driving on the right, instead of the left, as in Great Britain, our "Mother Country." Albert C. Rose, who served as "unofficial historian" of the U.S. Bureau of...

Dogwood Planted Along Roadsides

An article in the September 1946 issue of Contractors and Engineers Monthly described the original Blue Star planting project in New Jersey:

Blue Star Drive Planned as Memorial for Service People; Slopes Flattened or Stabilized With Trees...

U.S. 231 - Indiana to Florida: How a Highway Grew

The U.S. numbering plan was developed in the mid-1920's by the Joint Board on Interstate Highways, which included representatives of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (now the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)) and the State highway agencies. The idea was to identify the main interstate roads...

U.S. 202 - Maine to Delaware

When the Joint Board on Interstate Highways released its report on the proposed U.S. numbered highway plan in October 1925, the report identified U.S. 2, the northernmost east-west route, from Houlton, Maine, to Bonners Ferry, Idaho. (U.S. 2 was used instead of U.S. 0 for this major route.) The...

U.S. 95 and Idaho's North and South Highway

When the Joint Board on Interstate Highways released its proposal for a U.S. numbered highway system in October 1925, it identified U.S. 95 as a route located entirely in Idaho:

From the United States-Canada line to Bonners Ferry, Idaho, Sand Point, Coeur d'Alene, Lewiston, Grangerville...

U.S. 93 Reaching For The Border

Until the mid-1920's, the Nation's main interstate roads carried names such as the Lincoln Highway, the Meridian Highway, the National Old Trails Road, the Pacific Highway, the Yellowstone Trails, and hundreds of others. The names were applied by private booster groups, each of which acted as a...

U.S. 82

When the Joint Board on Interstate Highways released its report on October 30, 1925, the proposed network of U.S. numbered highways did not include U.S. 82. The number was set aside for later use as the network of good roads improved.

It first appeared in 1932 when Mississippi State...

U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Public Roads 1931

U.S. Route 80 From Savannah, Georgia, to San Diego, California

United States Highway 80 really starts at Tybee Island off the Atlantic coast about 18 miles southeast of Savannah, Georgia. In Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi it traverses sections where important campaigns of the Civil...

U.S. 52 Charleston, South Carolina, to Portal, North Dakota

by
Richard F. Weingroff
Federal Highway Administration

When the Joint Board on Interstate Highways issued its report, the proposed U.S. highway network included U.S. 52:

From Newport News, Virginia, to Richmond, Burkeville,...

U.S. 29 Maryland to Florida

When the Joint Board on Interstate Highways issued its proposal on the U.S. numbered highway system in October 1925, the report identified the main interstate highways that would be included. U.S. 29 was among them, with the route described as:

From Gastonia, North Carolina...