Shortest US Highway in your state

[bugo]

If US 2 can be presumed to have a gap through Canada, why can't US 97?

Good point.

[Bickendan]

What is the shortest "longest US Highway" in a state just to reverse the question?

Has to be Rhode Island.

Likely, at a mere 57 miles for US 1.

We could also ask about the longest "shortest US highway".

How about Alaska?  It's longest US highway is nothing with a length of zero.

US 97 disagrees!

Officially US 97 never existed in Alaska. Canada had to re number some highways as 97, but since Canada refused, US 97 didn't get approved in Alaska.

http://www.us-highways.com/ak-us.htm

So this explains why BC 97 is numbered the way it is!

And BC 101, 99, 95, 93, AB 93, MB 83, 29, 75, 59, ON 71, 61, and NB 95.

[kkt]

What is the shortest "longest US Highway" in a state just to reverse the question?

Has to be Rhode Island.

Likely, at a mere 57 miles for US 1.

We could also ask about the longest "shortest US highway".

How about Alaska?  It's longest US highway is nothing with a length of zero.

US 97 disagrees!

Officially US 97 never existed in Alaska. Canada had to re number some highways as 97, but since Canada refused, US 97 didn't get approved in Alaska.

http://www.us-highways.com/ak-us.htm

So this explains why BC 97 is numbered the way it is!

And BC 101, 99, 95, 93, AB 93, MB 83, 29, 75, 59, ON 71, 61, and NB 95.

Canadians were good sports and accommodated the US route numbers... and then we went and changed a bunch of them to Interstate numbers.

[oscar]

And BC 101, 99, 95, 93, AB 93, MB 83, 29, 75, 59, ON 71, 61, and NB 95.

Also the ~4 km-long BC 395, connecting the Crowsnest Highway (BC/AB 3) to US 395.

[Bickendan]

And BC 101, 99, 95, 93, AB 93, MB 83, 29, 75, 59, ON 71, 61, and NB 95.

Also the ~4 km-long BC 395, connecting the Crowsnest Highway (BC/AB 3) to US 395.

D'oh, and I'm the one that drafted that route for Clinched Highways!

[US 41]

I just caught that MB 75 is actually a northern extension of US 75 and that US 83 also turns into MB 83. Now for a question. Did the US and Mexico cooperate on US 57 / Mex 57 or was that by chance?

[oscar]

I just caught that MB 75 is actually a northern extension of US 75

Was a northern US 75 extension.  That border crossing is now barricaded, and cross-border traffic now takes I-29 and the short MB 29 connection to MB 75 the rest of the way to Winnipeg.

[bugo]

I just caught that MB 75 is actually a northern extension of US 75

Was a northern US 75 extension.  That border crossing is now barricaded, and cross-border traffic now takes I-29 and the short MB 29 connection to MB 75 the rest of the way to Winnipeg.

I think Manitoba 29 has been decommissioned and Manitoba 75 extended to the border.

[bugo]

I just caught that MB 75 is actually a northern extension of US 75 and that US 83 also turns into MB 83. Now for a question. Did the US and Mexico cooperate on US 57 / Mex 57 or was that by chance?

Mexico 57 was there first. Texas renumbered state highways to TX 57 in 1966 and US 57 in 1970.

[NE2]

US 57: Nixon's illegal immigrant.

[oscar]

I just caught that MB 75 is actually a northern extension of US 75

Was a northern US 75 extension.  That border crossing is now barricaded, and cross-border traffic now takes I-29 and the short MB 29 connection to MB 75 the rest of the way to Winnipeg.

I think Manitoba 29 has been decommissioned and Manitoba 75 extended to the border.

Which would make MB 75 now a northern extension of I-29 in North Dakota, rather than US 75 (which still continues on its old course and dead-ends at the international border, on the other side of the North Dakota/Minnesota state line).

But MB 75 still was a northern extension of US 75 rather than I-29, before the US 75 border crossing was closed.

[bugo]

Manitoba 29 wasn't decommissioned and Manitoba 75 wasn't rerouted until 2012.