Blue Star Memorial Highways
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Richard F. Weingroff
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Where was the First Walk/Don't Walk Sign Installed?
Addendum: The Barnes Dance
After reading this article, several people commented on the reference to the "scramble," during which all traffic at an intersection is halted so pedestrians can cross in any direction, including diagonally. The readers suggested that Henry A. Barnes, who had...
Where was the First Walk/Don't Walk Sign Installed?
You Will Not Find the Answer Here
The Highway History page recently received an inquiry about where the first Walk/Don't Walk sign was installed. This question has come up before, but we've never been able to find the answer. Our research helped pin down the time frame (...
U.S. 666: "Beast of a Highway"?
On May 31, 2003, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials approved a new number for the remaining segments of U.S. 666 in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. At the request of State transportation officials, the route became U.S. 491, a spur of U.S. 191....
U.S. Route 80 The Dixie Overland Highway
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Richard F. Weingroff
Federal Highway Administration
U.S. 80 Map | Dixie Overland Highway Map
A look at a road atlas from the...
Zero Milestone - Washington, DC
by Richard F. Weingroff
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Dr. S. M. Johnson - A Dreamer of Dreams
by Richard F. Weingroff
The Lincoln Highway
by Richard F. Weingroff
On July 1, 1913, a group of automobile enthusiasts and industry officials established the Lincoln Highway Association (LHA) "to procure the establishment of a continuous improved highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, open to lawful traffic of...
Good Roads Everywhere: Charles Henry Davis and the National Highways Association
by Richard F. Weingroff
The idea of a system of national highways is almost as old as the Good Roads Movement of the 1890's. One of the early advocates was Charles Henry Davis, an enthusiastic good roads man whose central idea went from being ahead of...