United States Numbered Highway System: Difference between revisions

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The current United States Highway system begun in [[1924]], and the named highways began to be replaced with numbers the following year. Unlike the later [[Interstate highway]] system, roads on the United States highway system are not usually controlled-access roads: many are the main streets of the cities and towns they run through. The United States Highways were (and are) [[state highway]]s, funded with some federal assistance.

On maps and the road, the highway is indicated by a number on a white sign in a shape of a shield. Until the 19901980's,

the regulations which describe the sign did not explicit state that they would be white, leading the state of [[Florida]] to use different colors for different roads from the 1960's1956 until 1994 [[http://www.us-highways.com/flausa.htm]].