New book covering the first century of the US route system

[usends]

In commemoration of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the US highways, I am publishing a book, available in 2025.  The title is Great Lines Across America, subtitled "Looking back at the first 100 years of the United States Numbered Highways, the country's original inter-state route system".  It is intended to complement usends.com by providing additional, deeper information gleaned from a review of all 13 route logs that AASHO/AASHTO published, and from a review of all 58,000 pages of material in AASHTO's archive.  I expect the book itself will be less than 1% of that length (around 500 pages), so in that sense it could be thought of as the Cliffs Notes for the AASHTO archive.  But it's not just facts and data; there is also some analysis, including a discussion of the four distinct phases in the history of the US route system.

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[Max Rockatansky]

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[-- US 175 --]

In commemoration of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the US highways, I am publishing a book, available in 2025.  The title is Great Lines Across America, subtitled "Looking back at the first 100 years of the United States Numbered Highways, the country's original inter-state route system".  It is intended to complement usends.com by providing additional, deeper information gleaned from a review of all 13 route logs that AASHO/AASHTO published, and from a review of all 58,000 pages of material in AASHTO's archive.  I expect the book itself will be less than 1% of that length (around 500 pages), so in that sense it could be thought of as the Cliffs Notes for the AASHTO archive.  But it's not just facts and data; there is also some analysis, including a discussion of the four distinct phases in the history of the US route system.

If this kind of thing interests you, you can click here and sign up to be notified when the book becomes available.

Great news!  Congrats in advance.

[pderocco]

In commemoration of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the US highways, I am publishing a book, available in 2025.  The title is Great Lines Across America, subtitled "Looking back at the first 100 years of the United States Numbered Highways, the country's original inter-state route system".  It is intended to complement usends.com by providing additional, deeper information gleaned from a review of all 13 route logs that AASHO/AASHTO published, and from a review of all 58,000 pages of material in AASHTO's archive.  I expect the book itself will be less than 1% of that length (around 500 pages), so in that sense it could be thought of as the Cliffs Notes for the AASHTO archive.  But it's not just facts and data; there is also some analysis, including a discussion of the four distinct phases in the history of the US route system.

If this kind of thing interests you, you can click here and sign up to be notified when the book becomes available.

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