Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/May 2011

...that Bud Shuster named Interstate 99 (pictured) after a street car, No. 99, that took people from Shuster's hometown of Glassport to McKeesport?
...that U.S. Route 6 and U.S. Route 50 enter and leave the state of Utah on a concurrent alignment, but in the center of the state are almost 100 miles apart?
...that Eden Brent has a blues song named "Mississippi Number 1" in honor of Mississippi Highway 1?
...that the Illiana Expressway is a proposed Interstate-standard tollway connecting northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana?
... that the former exit 43 (now exit 284) on Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania that serves Pocono Raceway was named the Richard Petty Interchange in honor of the NASCAR legend that drove the #43 car?