FreightWaves Classics: Transcontinental trip leads to the numbered highway system (Part 3)

Wide and narrow 1971-style U.S. route shields. (Photo: Scott Nazelrod/Wikipedia)

In Part 1of this article, a trip by two officials of the American Automobile Association (AAA) led to problems due to the practice of naming major roads during the first 25 years of the 20th century.

In Part 2, FreightWaves Classics detailed actions that were taken to move the country toward numbering its highways in a uniform manner.

In Part 3, actions by state and federal highway officials are highlighted.

A road sign for the Trail of the Padres auto trail. (Photo: eBay.com)A road sign for the Trail of the Padres auto trail. (Photo: eBay.com)
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