state highway
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In 1926, Cyrus Avery, a Tulsa businessman and state highway commissioner, led the creation of Route 66.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025
Houses that sit along parts of the major state highway have also been hit by the Palisades fire, including in the city of Malibu.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2025
Lowering the speed limit on a state highway would mean looking into its design and reviewing the applicable state and federal laws, said Toks Omishakin, California Transportation Secretary.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024
The so-called slip-out, which stranded more than a thousand motorists overnight along the famous state highway, was the product of winter storms that for months have saturated California.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2024
It’s entirely impossible to drive seventy-seven miles per hour on the two-lane state highway that takes us farther north, up toward the Catskills.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
