Talk:United States Numbered Bicycle Routes

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An entry from United States Numbered Bicycle Routes appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 13 May 2006.

out of interest, why route 76 if there are only two in total!?

• It was most likely meant to be similar to the system of U.S. Routes, where odd routes run north-south from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and even numbered routes run east-west from Canada to Mexico. So U.S. Bicycle Route 1 makes sense as it runs close to U.S. Route 1. But U.S. Bicycle Route 76 runs pretty far north of U.S. Route 76, so it's most likely a holdout from the naming of the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail — the trail was established in 1976, so the route was probably named after the bicentennial year. A better number might be U.S. Bicycle Route 60 or so. —Rob (talk) 22:32, 14 May 2006 (UTC)