[Talk-us] Relations, cycle routes, shapefiles

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 2/6/2011 2:41 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
 > On 02/06/2011 05:14 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
 >
 >> What does this have to do with anything?
 >
 > USDOT is working hard to make all federal highways bicycle accessible.
 > These routes are national in nature and often share with the motorway
 > where bicycles are permitted, or have a third roadway specifically for
 > the bike lanes where they're not permitted on the adjacent motorway.

There's no such thing as a "federal highway". With only a handful of 
exceptions, Interstates and U.S. Routes are maintained by the state or 
local government and numbered by AASHTO. Except for Interstate 
construction and maintenance, and possibly a few other cases, federal 
funding does not depend on what numbering system a road belongs to. This 
has been true since before the U.S. Routes were assigned in 1926.