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The easy solution would be just make VA 33 part of US 33.

That would be the easy solution, but VDOT never does things the easy way...

and even that's an understatement lol just like the whole US/VA 360 thing

[Takumi]

Digging this thread up with a photo from the Richmond Times-Dispatch from January 1952. This is West Broad and Lombardy, but doesn’t say which direction. Note the US 33 shield included.

[WillWeaverRVA]

Digging this thread up with a photo from the Richmond Times-Dispatch from January 1952. This is West Broad and Lombardy, but doesn’t say which direction. Note the US 33 shield included.

Looks like eastbound.

[The Ghostbuster]

I think VA 33 should have been US 33 from the get-go. I know VA 33 is an east-west route, but so is US 33 (more or less, with it being diagonal in a northwest-southeast trajectory). True, there is a VA 211 off the end of US 211, and a VA 360 along US 360’s old alignment. VA 311 doesn’t count since it was designated after US 311 became part of US 220.

[Mapmikey]

I think VA 33 should have been US 33 from the get-go. I know VA 33 is an east-west route, but so is US 33 (more or less, with it being diagonal in a northwest-southeast trajectory). True, there is a VA 211 off the end of US 211, and a VA 360 along US 360’s old alignment. VA 311 doesn’t count since it was designated after US 311 became part of US 220.

VA 311 absolutely existed while US 311 ended in Roanoke. Otherwise VA 311 would’ve been numbered something else.

Virginia has also had as extensions of US routes:
VA 13
VA 17
VA 121
VA 158
VA 258
VA 301
VA 501
VA 522

Plus there was a US/VA 29 setup similar to the current 360 setup, between Culpeper and Warrenton.

[roadman65]

I noticed that on Broad Street EB at US 1/301 there is a TO EAST US 33 shield in the median directing traffic to north US 1/301. However no follow up at Leigh Street, but a EAST US 33 shield on the EB Leigh Street signal pole on the SE corner with Belvedere.

Plus on Staples Mill Road at Broad Street there is no EB US 33 shield informing traffic to turn left onto EB US 250 there. With that intersection on the City Line, you would think VDOT  would sign that correctly.

[Mapmikey]

I noticed that on Broad Street EB at US 1/301 there is a TO EAST US 33 shield in the median directing traffic to north US 1/301. However no follow up at Leigh Street, but a EAST US 33 shield on the EB Leigh Street signal pole on the SE corner with Belvedere.

Plus on Staples Mill Road at Broad Street there is no EB US 33 shield informing traffic to turn left onto EB US 250 there. With that intersection on the City Line, you would think VDOT  would sign that correctly.

Both shields you cite in the Broad/Leigh situation are in error as it is VA 33 by then.  There was a shield on 1-301 N at Leigh that was removed 2007-11: https://goo.gl/maps/FEdETeSYGFgDRzT38

33 EB at 250 apparently hasn't had a 33 shield in the GMSV.  I'm not certain VDOT would be involved since it is Henrico Co.