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...that a proposed Michigan Turnpike (map pictured) would have run through the Detroit area if the State Highway Commissioner did not stall it until the creation of the Interstate Highway System made the proposal obsolete?
...that a movie was made about a family stranded in a snowstorm near Vya, along former Nevada State Route 8A, who were following a map, but didn't know Vya was a ghost town and that what looked like a highway was actually an unimproved, decommissioned highway?
...that Ontario Highway 23 was extended from Highway 8 to Highway 7 as part of a Depression-era relief program?
...that unlike elsewhere in the United States, traffic on highways in the United States Virgin Islands drives on the left?
...that New York State Route 3 initially extended as far west as Niagara County?

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