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At 14.45 miles (23.26 km), the West Virginia segment of Interstate 70 (I-70) is the shortest in any state through which I-70 passes on its way from near Cove Fort, Utah, to near Baltimore, Maryland. Part of the U.S. Interstate Highway System, it crosses the Northern Panhandle region of West Virginia through Ohio County and the city of Wheeling. The Fort Henry Bridge carries I-70 from Wheeling Island across the Ohio River and into downtown Wheeling before the freeway enters the Wheeling Tunnel. I-470, the lone auxiliary Interstate Highway in West Virginia, is intersected near Elm Grove. Before crossing into Pennsylvania, I-70 passes The Highlands, a major shopping center, and the Bear Rock Lakes Wildlife Management Area. Between 27,000 and 53,000 vehicles use the freeway daily. The I-70 designation was brought to the Northern Panhandle with the passage of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, and a controlled-access highway was built across the panhandle, bypassing portions of the old National Road constructed in 1818 to connect Wheeling and Cumberland, Maryland. The first portions of I-70 were opened in 1963, and construction was completed across the panhandle by 1971. (Full article...)

Did you know ...

• ...that Maryland Route 995 (pictured) is the designation for Amtrak Way, the road leading to the BWI Rail Station that is served by Amtrak and MARC Train?
• ...that in 1993, the New York State Thruway became the first road to implement the E-ZPass electronic toll collection?
• ...that M-38 was previously a part of M-35 that was 65 miles (105 km) away from the rest of the highway?
• ...that while traversing mountainous terrain, Interstate 5 in California and Interstate 8 in Arizona each have portions where traffic in one direction crosses over the traffic lanes for the other direction?
• ...that Quebec Route 199 is the only highway in Québec that does not connect to any other highway in the network?

In the news

• Open road tolling is introduced along the Ohio Turnpike.
• A key portion of State Route 37, an expressway running along the northern shore of the San Pablo Bay in the northern extremity of the San Francisco Metropolitan Area will be fully closed on weekends in April for reconstruction, forcing motorists on a detour through Napa Valley
• Part of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, carrying Interstate 695 in Baltimore, Maryland, collapses after a container ship strikes a pillar.
• Utah Department of Transportation announces U.S. Route 6 will be rebuilt to improve capacity and safety between the junctions of I-15 and US 89, in the city of Spanish Fork.
• Caltrans opens the Centennial Corridor, a freeway re-route of State Route 58 in downtown Bakersfield.
• A partial collapse of a culvert closes both directions of Interstate 82 near Wapato, Washington for several days.
• A turbo roundabout opens at the intersection of State Route 25 and State Route 156 in San Benito County.

Ongoing: I-69 Extension (IN), I-405 Expansion (WA)

Historic byways

• April 29, 1939 – An urban boulevard, called the Major Deegan Boulevard, is opened, connecting the Triborough Bridge to the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, New York
• April 30, 1959 – Corning, New York's Denison Parkway is extended to Riverside

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  U.S. Route 50 in the desert of Nevada. This section is nicknamed the "Loneliest Road in America".

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  Heavy congestion on Interstate 495 eastbound in Queens

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  The Columbia–Wrightsville Bridge over the Susquehanna River

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  Interstate 84 and Interstate 5 meet near the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon.

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  The four-lane Foresthill Bridge over the was built in 1971 to replace the low crossing of the American River on State Route 49 in preparation for the construction of the Auburn Dam. The dam was canceled for environmental reasons, but the bridge, the tallest in California, remains along the local Foresthill Road.

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  Sunset over Louisiana Highway 1040

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  A photo from 1960 showing a sign assembly along Route 27 for Route 18 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. At the time, Route 18 was signed as east–west; it is now posted as north–south.

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  The New River Gorge Bridge, which carries US 19 across the New River near Fayetteville, West Virginia

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  A former section of U.S. Route 18 and U.S. Route 85 in Niobrara County, Wyoming

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  An older "sidewalk highway" segment of U.S. Route 66 in Miami, Oklahoma

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  California State Route 44 in the wintertime

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  Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 near downtown Atlanta, Georgia

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  Illinois Route 92 near the town of Ohio

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  Fall colors along Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive in Wisconsin

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  Rhode Island Route 216 northbound in Ashaway

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  North Dakota Highway 21 eastbound at North Dakota Highway 67 in Slope County

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  U.S. Route 1 along Rhode Island Avenue in Washington, D.C.

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  K-57 in Milford State Park in Geary County, Kansas

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