Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/February 2012

...that the Merritt Parkway (pictured) was named one of America's Most Endangered Historic Places in 2010?
... that Colorado State Highway 257 has two interchanges only 0.3 miles apart?
...that a portion of the U.S. Route 222 freeway bypass north of Reading, Pennsylvania was once known as "The Road to Nowhere" as it was constructed before other sections of the bypass?
...that the Amstutz Expressway section of Illinois Route 137 was used in the filming of the movies Groundhog Day and The Blues Brothers?
...that U.S. Route 56 was originally proposed by the Mid-Continent Diagonal Highway Association as U.S. Route 55 and was to connect New Mexico or Arizona with Manitowoc, Wisconsin?