Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/June 2015

...that the Airline Highway in Louisiana was considered a pet project of Governor Huey P. Long as it reduced the length of his journey between the capitol building in Baton Rouge and the bars and establishments in New Orleans?
... that for its first 25 years of existence in Michigan, US Highway 33 did not have an independent routing?
... that the Delaware Department of Transportation maintains 89 percent of the roads in Delaware?
...that the easternmost part of California State Route 20 follows a branch of the historic California Trail, parts of which have been preserved as a National Recreation Trail?
...that the original designation for Route 574 in Erie County, New York and its eastern terminus were removed four years apart?