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The Ridge Route was the popular name given to an early 20th-century road in the United States. The Ridge Route was California's first highway, linking the Los Angeles Basin with the San Joaquin Valley; it was particularly used to travel from the city of Los Angeles to Bakersfield. Its official name was the Castaic-Tejon Route. In 1895, the State Bureau of Highways was created by Governor James H. Budd who appointed three highway commissioners: R.C. Irvine of Sacramento, Marsden Manson of San Francisco and L. Maude of Riverside. Though a great deal of the route had been daylighted (widened) and paved in asphalt by the mid-1920s, much of the 1919 concrete pavement remains intact. In some areas, Model T tire tracks can still be seen, left decades ago in the still-soft concrete. (Full article...)

Did you know ...

• ...that in 1967, women helped construct Interstate 29 in Iowa because there was a shortage of male workers?
• ...that Florida State Road A1A was renumbered from State Road 1 in 1946 in order to reduce confusion with nearby U.S. Route 1?
• ...that a rest area along Interstate 295 in New Jersey was named in honor of Howard Stern by Governor Christine Todd Whitman as payback for Stern granting Whitman airtime during her 1993 gubernatorial campaign?
• ...that the St. Clair Parkway travels through Corunna, Ontario, a planned town intended to be the capital of a united Upper and Lower Canada when it was established in 1823?
• ...that despite the Reno Arch's (pictured) modern association with gambling, the arch was originally built to promote a roadgeek meetup celebrating the completion of the Lincoln and Victory Highways?

In the news

• March 17: The newly tolled Belle Chasse Bridge, along Louisiana Highway 23, opened to traffic. The bridge replaced the Belle Chasse Tunnel and Judge Perez Bridge fully.
• March 11: A 29-kilometer (18 mi) freeway realignment of Road 24 near Maragheh, Iran opens to traffic.
• March 7: The Namibian presidency officially announces the opening of the Dr. Hifikepunye Pohamba Freeway connecting the B2 in Swakopmund to C14 in Walvis Bay.
• March 1: Interstate 40 at the Tennessee/North Carolina border partially re-opens after extensive damage from Hurricane Helene.
• February 20: Interstate 80 in New Jersey will remain closed indefinitely after a second sinkhole forms in the same location as a recently repaired sink hole.
• February 19: The Ministry of Works and Transport for Uganda finishes and turns the Kampala Flyover Road Project to the city for maintainance
• February 16: The Philippine Government announces the Philippine expressway network will switch to RFID based cashless tolling effective March 15.

Ongoing: I-695 closure from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse

Historic byways

• March 23, 1917 - the Nevada Department of Highways, predecessor to today's Nevada Department of Transportation is formed.
• March 26, 2024 - the main span of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, carrying I-695 in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed after a container ship strikes a pier.
• March 28, 1976 – Albany, New York's Northside Route is completed as it is extended from US 9/20 in Schodack to the Berkshire Connector.
• March 28, 2008 – The I-86 designation is extended from Horseheads to NY 352 in Elmira.

Selected pictures

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  A 1948 plan showing San Francisco's trafficways, which would later become the freeways and major streets in the city

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  A 1948 plan showing San Francisco's trafficways, which would later become the freeways and major streets in the city

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  A mileage sign along K-99 in Emporia, Kansas. KDOT uses demountable copy for most of its large road signs.

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  Interstate 287 interchange with the New York State Thruway in Suffern, New York

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  Interstate 5 curving through Downtown Seattle's skyline

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  Westbound on Interstate H-3 heading toward Honolulu. Pu'ukahuauli Summit is in the background.

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  The Pulga bridge along California State Route 70 which crosses the Feather River Route and the Feather River

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  Puerto Rico Highway 139 southbound in Barrio Maragüez, Ponce, Puerto Rico. The City of Ponce and the Río Portugués channel are in the near background and the Caribbean Sea is in the far background.

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  The original M-15 (now County Road 492) between Marquette and Negaunee, Michigan, in 1917 showing the first centerline on a state highway

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  U.S. Highway 30 crossing the Mississippi River at Clinton, Iowa

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  A 1956 view of M-87 in Fenton, Michigan

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  The Natchez Trace Parkway extends 444 miles (715 km) through Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee

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  The Alaska Highway under construction in 1942

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  Overlooking Astoria, Oregon, and the Astoria–Megler Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 101 over the Columbia River

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  U.S. Route 202 parkway northbound in Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania

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  View north from the south end of U.S. Route 93 Alternate at U.S. Route 93 in Lages Station, Nevada

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  Maryland Route 36 approaching Mount Savage, with part of the Mount Savage Castle visible in the background

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  Interstate 70 passing through the San Rafael Swell in central Utah

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  Puerto Rico Highway 511 in the hills of Barrio Real in Ponce

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