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King's Highway 420 is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that connects the Queen Elizabeth Way with downtown Niagara Falls. The roadway continues east as the limited-access expressway Niagara Regional Road 420, which was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Regional Municipality of Niagara in 1998; it connects with the Rainbow Bridge at the border with the United States over the w:Niagara River. King's Highway 420 has a speed limit of 80 kilometers per hour (50 mph), making it the only 400-series highway to have a speed limit less than 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph) for its entirety. Originally constructed as a divided four-lane road with two traffic circles, the route of Highway 420 formed part of the QEW between 1941 and 1972. It was assigned a unique route number during its reconstruction as a freeway and the construction of the large interchange at its western terminus at Montrose Road. (Full article...)

Did you know ...

• ...Nevada State Route 375 has been nicknamed the Extraterrestrial Highway(pictured) from the large number of UFO sightings along its route?
• ...that the founder of the American film company A24 decided to create the company while driving on A24 in Italy?
• ...there is a traffic circle in Augusta, Maine that carries seven routes: 8, 11, 17, 27, 100, US 201 and US 202?
• ...that I-520 in Augusta and North Augusta is numbered as though it was a spur even though it connects to I-20 on both ends?
• ...Interstate 25 is entirely overlapped with US routes?

In the news

• Two new sections of Quebec Autoroute 85 near Saint-Honoré-de-Témiscouata open to traffic.
• NCDOT announces they will sign a freeway bypass around Goldsboro, North Carolina as Interstate 42.
• KDOT closes the eastbound Lewis and Clark Viaduct, which carries Interstate 70 across the Kansas River for urgent repairs, after bridge inspectors noticed failing gusset plates in the structure.
• Caltrans commits to continue to rebuild and not abandon the Big Sur Coast Highway in a CBS News special detailing the challenges of keeping California State Route 1 open, with landslides of increasing severity and frequency.
• A northbound HOV lane is extended on Interstate 5 between Everett and Marysville, Washington.
• A key piece of Interstate 69 opens to traffic which filled a gap and nearly completes the Indiana portion of the freeway.
• Virginia signs their portion of the Coalfields Expressway which was previously only signed in the West Virginia portion.

Ongoing: I-405 expansion (WA), I-695 closure from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse

Historic byways

• Sept. 11, 1985 – A proposed southern extension of the Blue Ridge Parkway to Interstate 75 near Marietta, Georgia is formally cancelled by the federal government.
• Sept. 12, 1991 – The final traffic light on Interstate 90 is ceremonially retired in the town of Wallace, Idaho.
• Sept. 12, 1993 – The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge, a floating bridge carrying eastbound traffic on Interstate 90 from Seattle to Bellevue, Washington, is reopened after major repairs following its 1990 sinking.
• Sept. 13, 1976 – Interstate 35W in Kansas is renunmbered to Interstate 135, to conform with new AASHTO guidelines discouraging suffixed Interstates.
• Sept. 14, 1913 – The finalized route of the Lincoln Highway (pictured) between New York City and San Francisco is announced by the Lincoln Highway Association in Indianapolis.
• Sept. 15, 1978 – The last section of the All American Freeway is completed in North Carolina between Fayetteville and Fort Bragg.
• Sept. 16, 1965 – The Outdoor Advertising Control Bill, which will later become the Highway Beautification Act, is passed in the U.S. Senate by a vote of 63 to 14.
• Sept. 17, 1952 – A new section of U.S. Route 66 in Arizona, which bypasses Oatman, is opened to traffic between Topock and Kingman.
• Sept. 18, 1992 – The Arizona Department of Transportation officially retires the U.S. Route 666 designation and renumbers it as a southern extension of U.S. Route 191.
• Sept. 19, 2018 – The New York State Department of Transportation approves the conversion of State Route 895 in The Bronx from a freeway into a surface street.
• Sept. 20, 1963 – A law is passed by California State Legislature authorizing the 1964 state highway renumbering. Several U.S. Highways are removed in favor of Interstate Highways.

Selected pictures

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  Interstate 90 in Wallace, Idaho, site of one of the final traffic lights to be removed from I-90

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  U.S. Route 9W in the town of Cornwall, New York, as seen from the summit of Butter Hill

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  Interstate 70 in Colorado in Glenwood Canyon

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  A sign gantry removed from its normal position above Interstate 35 in Norman, Oklahoma, and lying in the right-of-way between the Interstate and its service road; the support which the sign is typically mounted on is visible in the background.

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  North Carolina Highway 147 passing through downtown Durham viewed from the Fayetteville St overpass

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  A view of the Golden Gate Bridge during a foggy day

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  Delaware Route 52 in the Brandywine Valley north of Wilmington

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  Interstate 440 in Nashville, Tennessee

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  U.S. Route 201 along the Kennebec River near Bingham, Maine

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  U.S. Route 74 in Charlotte, North Carolina

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  The Lincoln Highway Bridge along the historic Lincoln Highway in Tama, Iowa

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  New York State Route 421 in the fall

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  Running alongside M-6 south of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Frederik Meijer Trail connects to other trails in the area.

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  Utah State Route 12 approaching Bryce Canyon National Park

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  U.S. Route 13 crossing the Chesapeake Bay on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel in Virginia

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  Interstate 84 eastbound approaching Mountain Home, Idaho

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