Believe it or not, highway numbers actually make sense. Here's the logic behind odd and even routes, and why the system isn't ...

There were roads across the United States before 1926, but they weren’t systematically named, numbered or otherwise organized. Instead, the country was crisscrossed by a series of loosely connected ...

Under the current system, motorists might not know how far it is between exits. Under a mileage-based system, motorists can quickly tell how far it is to any exit number. But travelers looking for old ...

Legislation dictating how a future expansion of Interstate 27 will be named recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives, marking another win for the Ports-to-Plains Corridor. The I-27 Numbering ...

Over the years, I have studied many of the roads that make up Broome County. It all began about four decades ago when a patron of the then-Binghamton Public Library asked me what was the meaning ...

Dear On-Ramp Oracle: Recently, a shiny new stretch of highway was christened Interstate 57, but it lies west of Interstate 55. Has the sacred order of odd and even numbered interstates been overrun by ...

1. The Road Taken : givens, choices, forks, sighs -- 2. The Road Not Taken : words, reports, and grades -- 3. Roads : dirt, stone, wood, concrete, asphalt -- 4 ...