What is the National Highway System?
It is the Federal-aid system on which States may spend Federal Highway funds. It was designated by the States in consultation with the FHWA and includes the Interstate System. It is designed to serve major population centers, international border crossings, ports, airports, public transportation facilities and other major travel destinations.
The National Highway System is a system of roads administered by the FHWA (see Question 4.1 ) that receives special funding from the federal government. It was started with ISTEA (see Question 4.3 ) in 1991. All Interstates are in it, but not all US Routes. Many state routes are included and even some city-maintained routes. More information is at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep10/nhs/ , as well as in the text of the United States Code Title 23, Section 103 ( http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:+23USC103 ). Background of its creation is located at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/backbone.cfm . http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/ with “23USC103”) !– groups.google.com/group/misc.transport.road/browse_thread/thread/6ff896859a25b115 12/9/04 –> Apr 5, 2007 7.8 Q: What happened to the colored US routes? A: AZ, MS, RI, and WA, and reportedly CT, DC, SD, and UT, formerly used a system based on direction, with AZ briefly using them again for its Pho
