Goodbye I-69

[sarettah]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Nov 21 2004, 06:00 PM
Make they can makeit I-666


Don't people have real issues to worry about?

69 is just a number.

Nopers, they already renamed Highway 666 a while back...

I loved that stretch of road up around shiprock, used to use it when I was visiting the Navajo res....

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/...20Highway%20666

In January 2003, the Governor of New Mexico declared his intent to change the designation of US 666 due to "infamy brought by the inopportune naming of the road." http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/us666.htm Officials in Colorado and Utah concurred, choosing "US 393" as the route number. But since the route came nowhere near U.S. Highway 93, AASHTO suggested U.S. Highway 491, noting it as a "branch" of U.S. Highway 191 because the routes meet in Monticello, Utah. US 666 officially ceased to exist on May 31, 2003, though "New 491 - Old 666" signs would be posted for at least a year.