Why Does Highways That travel North and South Have Odd numbers? Why do East and West have Even Numbers?

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Go to this link http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/highways... and it will explain it all to you. That be by far one of the most intriging questions I have ever come across, so I looked it up. It be WAY too much and WAY too confusing for me to put anything down so I just put the link contained by.

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Actually, that go back to the early days of Railroads within the U.S. when routes north and west had odd numbers and routes going east and south have even numbers. it continued on with the modern highway system with the open change of North/South being irregular and East/West being even..

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awesome question - no idea so i googled it and come up with this

http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/highways...

and this

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/programadmin/int... (about halfway down to interestate numbering heading)

after have read of all of that i am however still unable to answer the cross-question of *why*

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i think one is an interstate highway and one is newly a highway

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Interesting... the interaction between the Interstate Highway and State Highway systems...

I'm not sure WHY that numbering system WAS chosen, but it was because a simple grid was set up... Also minute that the highway numbers grow from West to East, and South to North.

Initial federal planning for a nationwide highway system began within 1921 when the Bureau of Public Roads asked the Army to provide a list of roads it considered necessary for national defense, resulting within the Pershing Map. Later that decade, highways such as the New York parkway system had be built as part of local or state highway systems. As automobile traffic increased, planners saw a need for such an interconnected national system to supplement the existing, largely non-freeway, United States Numbered Highway system. By the delayed 1930s, planning had expanded to a system of new superhighways. In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt give BPR chief Thomas MacDonald a hand-drawn map of the U.S. marked with eight superhighway corridors for study.

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Answers: That was the convention that was used when assigning numbers to interstate highway, and the states followed the same for state highways.

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