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    From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to MIKE POWELL on Sat Oct 31 05:37:50 2020
    Mike wrote --

    I-40 was mostly laid directly on top of the former US
    highway. So I am not surprised that any remaining stretches are not very long. :(

    I-25,N-S in Colorado's eastern slope, completely replaced whatever the
    old road was. Many, many years ago. At least by the late '50s.
    There is still Rt 36 that parallels I-70 from Kansas to Denver, among
    other areas. On my trip last year it was 36 from Hannibal, MO to Denver.
    Once in a while there's a tiny stretch of concrete off to the side, about
    a block or so long. All by itself. Surrounded by land.
    Here in WV Rt 60 and I-64 are still pretty much intact. Rt 60 is now a
    local road for the most part.
    Joe
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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to JOE MACKEY on Sat Oct 31 11:27:00 2020
    Here in WV Rt 60 and I-64 are still pretty much intact. Rt 60 is now a local road for the most part.

    That is pretty much the same in Eastern Kentucky, too. 60 is still left to parallel I-64. West of Louisville, they stop running together, with I-64
    going through Indiana (and I guess replacing 460), while 60 continues
    through Western Kentucky, unreplaced, until it crosses the Ohio and
    Mississippi Rivers at Cairo, IL.

    I have spent nearly all my life living somewhere served by US 60. One of
    these days, I hope to drive what is left of it. Apparently, there is a lot more left of it than 66. The only severe truncation it seems to have
    suffered is through California.

    Mike


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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to MIKE POWELL on Mon Nov 2 06:46:50 2020
    Mike wrote --

    I have spent nearly all my life living somewhere served by US 60.

    Same here

    One of these days, I hope to drive what is left of it.

    On my trip in June I was on 60 the vast majority of the time, from
    Huntington to its starting point in Virginia Beach/Norfolk. I was on my hysterical (historical) tour of VA, visiting battlefields, various sites, etc.
    Rt 60
    follows a lot of those areas.
    And there was the occasional side trip to some site not on 60, or
    bypassing some sites that were under lock down and closed.
    Then up part of historic Rt 1 to the DC area.
    Joe
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