Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/January 2018

...that the Orchard Pond Parkway (pictured) was the first privately-built toll road to be constructed in Florida?
...that Interstate 180 in Illinois was built to connect Interstate 80 to a steel plant in Hennepin?
... that an original proposed designation of New York State Route 97 was NY 17L, a fourteenth suffixed spur of NY 17?
...that the Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, currently used by U.S. Route 93 and proposed for use by Interstate 11, is the first steel-concrete composite arch bridge built in the United States?
...that the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 132 and Knights Road in Bensalem Township was ranked by Time magazine as the most dangerous intersection in the United States from 2003 until 2012?