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[TBKS1]

Alright, I think it's about time for me to make a topic on this.

So one thing that I've noticed about highways in Arkansas is the fact that almost every single numbered highway is split into more than one route. Take AR-74 for example:



I just can't figure out what the reasoning behind why there's multiple highways with the same number here. I don't know if anyone here would know, and I'll probably even ask ARDOT if there's a reasoning for it sometime later.

Thanks for reading. - TBKS1

[edwaleni]

Alright, I think it's about time for me to make a topic on this.

So one thing that I've noticed about highways in Arkansas is the fact that almost every single numbered highway is split into more than one route. Take AR-74 for example:



I just can't figure out what the reasoning behind why there's multiple highways with the same number here. I don't know if anyone here would know, and I'll probably even ask ARDOT if there's a reasoning for it sometime later.

Thanks for reading. - TBKS1

Per this article, the route is " a series of road segments"

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Highway_74 

[Road Hog]

A lot of Arkansas’ discontinuous highways are in somewhat of a straight line and could be theoretically connected either by a concurrency or a new terrain route. AR 88 is another prime example.

[bugo]

Many of these discontinuous highways could theoretically be connected via overlaps but ArrrrrrrghDOT refuses to sign US routes along interstates and state highways along US highways and even other state highways, so don't count on it happening soon. Discontinuous highways and unsigned highways are my least favorite things about Arkansas.

Nexus 5X

[index]

An extreme example of this is AR 980. It's the number designation for every state maintained airport road. They're not even in a line that could be connected in a sensible way, just scattered throughout the state.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Highway_980

[US71]

Alright, I think it's about time for me to make a topic on this.

So one thing that I've noticed about highways in Arkansas is the fact that almost every single numbered highway is split into more than one route. Take AR-74 for example:

I just can't figure out what the reasoning behind why there's multiple highways with the same number here. I don't know if anyone here would know, and I'll probably even ask ARDOT if there's a reasoning for it sometime later.

I believe 74 was once a continuous highway. Over the years, parts of it have been relegated to county road departments.  74 to Devil's Den was not part of the original 74, but appeared later.

45, another discontinuous highway, was also one route from near Clifty, AR to Hartford (possibly to the OK State Line).  Over the years, it has been chopped up, truncated, and realigned. US 62 west of Fayetteville was once part of AR 45, as was AR 59 south of Evansville, and US 271 and AR 253 south of Ft Smith.

[jbnv]

*psst* dashed routes

[paulthemapguy]

The purpose of a state highway department is to maintain connectivity, to facilitate a functioning highway network that might not exist if a hodge-podge of road segments were handed off to smaller agencies or abandoned altogether.  ARDOT is not doing the job that was the entire impetus for creating state DOT's in the first place.  I wish some larger agency like the federal government would step in and block Arkansas from stepping away from its duty.  The state government should be punished.  Looking at you, too, Indiana.

[jbnv]

ARDOT is not doing the job that was the entire impetus for creating state DOT's in the first place.  I wish some larger agency like the federal government would step in and block Arkansas from stepping away from its duty.  The state government should be punished.  Looking at you, too, Indiana.

Dude, do you understand the concept of federalism? Do you seriously believe a federal agency can do a better job of maintaining Arkansas's highways than a state agency? Furthermore, why is that the business of everyone who doesn't live in or work in Arkansas?

[Tomahawkin]

OT to an extent. Does 49 ( between US 62 up to Bentonville ) have any street or overhead lighting yet? I was always amazed there was none 15 years ago when the area started to Sprawl...

[Road Hog]

ARDOT is not doing the job that was the entire impetus for creating state DOT's in the first place.  I wish some larger agency like the federal government would step in and block Arkansas from stepping away from its duty.  The state government should be punished.  Looking at you, too, Indiana.

Dude, do you understand the concept of federalism? Do you seriously believe a federal agency can do a better job of maintaining Arkansas's highways than a state agency? Furthermore, why is that the business of everyone who doesn't live in or work in Arkansas?

Certain politicians believe in states rights. Until they don't.

[MikieTimT]

OT to an extent. Does 49 ( between US 62 up to Bentonville ) have any street or overhead lighting yet? I was always amazed there was none 15 years ago when the area started to Sprawl...

Not a bit, other than on some of the city street overpasses that manage to shine downward onto it.