List of divided U.S. Routes
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- Not to be confused with divided highway portions of the U.S. Highway system.
Some U.S. Routes are given directional suffixes to indicate a split of the main route - for instance, U.S. Route 25 splits into U.S. Route 25E (east) and U.S. Route 25W (west) between Newport, Tennessee and North Corbin, Kentucky, and U.S. Route 9W is an alternate of U.S. Route 9 between Fort Lee, New Jersey and Albany, New York. These splits were in the system of United States Numbered Highways from the beginning, and were used when two roughly-equivalent routes existed. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials no longer assigns these numbers, and in theory current ones are to be eliminated "as rapidly as the State Highway Department and the Standing Committee on Highways can reach agreement". This policy was adopted by 1996, however many of these routes still exist, mostly in Tennessee.
[edit] List of routes
- U.S. Route 6N, West Springfield, Pennsylvania (U.S. Route 20) to west of Mill Village, Pennsylvania (does not return to US 6 at its west end)
- U.S. Route 9W, Fort Lee, New Jersey to Albany, New York
- U.S. Route 11E and U.S. Route 11W, Knoxville, Tennessee to Bristol, Virginia
- U.S. Route 19E and U.S. Route 19W, near Burnsville, North Carolina to Bluff City, Tennessee
- U.S. Route 25E and U.S. Route 25W, Newport, Tennessee to North Corbin, Kentucky
- U.S. Route 31E and U.S. Route 31W, Nashville, Tennessee to Louisville, Kentucky
- U.S. Route 45E and U.S. Route 45W, Three Way, Tennessee to South Fulton, Tennessee
- U.S. Route 49E and U.S. Route 49W, Yazoo City, Mississippi to Tutwiler, Mississippi
- U.S. Route 70N, Lebanon, Tennessee to Crossville, Tennessee
- U.S. Route 70S, east of Pegram, Tennessee to Sparta, Tennessee