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In February and March 1998, John T. Greenwood interviewed Francis C. "Frank" Turner for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' 1988 Interstate Highway Research Project. Turner, who had joined the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads in 1929, rose through the ranks to...
In the late 1920's, the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) issued a series of news releases on the major U.S. highways. The releases described the routes, including road conditions and tourist opportunities along the way. The following memorandum on U.S. 11 was prepared for the series,...
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Richard F. Weingroff
Federal Highway Administration
In October 1925, the Joint Board completed its report, which explained the new numbering system and presented the companion signs, including the U.S. shield. That initial system included U.S. 11:
...by Richard F. Weingroff
In October 1925, the Joint Board on Interstate Highways recommended a 75,884-mile U.S. numbered system. One of the routes in the proposal was U.S. 6:
From Provincetown, Massachusetts, to New Bedford, Fall River, Providence, Rhode...
The Joint Board on Interstate Highways, consisting of officials of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads and State highway agencies, created the U.S. numbered highway system in 1925. Under this system, east-west routes were given an even number; north-south routes, an odd number. The major east-west...
Released for Publication, Sunday, October 9, 1927
Stretching from end to end of the thirteen original colonies, from Fort Kent, Maine, to Miami, Florida, the connecting sections of the Atlantic Coast Highway known as...
The story of U.S. 1 begins in 1925 with creation of the U.S. numbered highway system (see "From Names to Numbers" at https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/numbers.cfm). During the early years...
Released for Publication, Sunday, January 2, 1927
Final location of the United States System of Highways consisting of approximately 80,000 miles of the most important roads in the country was made known to-day by...
Frederick W. Cron, an engineer with the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) from 1928 to 1969, was also a highway historian. While working on an article about the numbering of America's main highways, he contacted a former BPR coworker and friend, E. W. James. The following is Mr. James'...
by Richard F. Weingroff
Information Liaison Specialist
Federal Highway Administration
(The following material provided the basis for an article of the same name in AASHTO Quarterly, Spring 1997.)
On Sunday, August 30, 1925, AAA President...