One hundred years ago, the United States Highway system was officially approved. A monumental day for national roadways in the United States. The first widespread systematization of roads across state lines in the country, and one of the largest enhancements to national transportation since the railroads. And there are some US Highways that have earned ended local and regional cultural legacies, whether they be US 1 in Key West, the fabled US 66 that after its abandonment oddly enough grew more legendary, or US 101 in California just to name a few, even the numbers of the US Highways can grow to stick as phenomena.
Most personally, I grew up around US Highways in New Jersey. Whether it was US 9 or US 30 or US 40 during my South Jersey days, those were some of my oldest roadway memories. And even today I have worked with the US Highway System.
So, not only happy Veterans Day / Armistice Day (because the US Highway System was founded on November 11th), happy 100th anniversary of the US Highway System.
