List of state routes in Tennessee
  Primary and secondary state routes | |
| System information | |
|---|---|
| Maintained by TDOT | |
| Highway names | |
| Interstates | Interstate XX (I-XX) |
| US Highways | U.S. Route XX (US XX) |
| System links | |
The Tennessee state routes do not follow a systematic numbering system unlike the U.S. Highway System and some other states' highway systems. The routes are separated into primary and secondary routes though. Many of the routes are hidden in that they are overlaid on U.S. Routes and not signed. The mile markers throughout Tennessee, however, show the state route number for these hidden routes.
The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) maintains these routes under the "State Highways" title of state law,[1] but designates them as "state routes". The triangle marker design was the only design until November 1983, when Tennessee divided its routes into primary routes and secondary or "arterial" routes with the adoption of a functional classification system, creating a primary marker and making the triangle marker the secondary marker; primary marker signs were posted in 1984.[2]
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See also
References
- ^ Title 54, Chapter 5 "State Highways". Tennessee Code Annotated.
- ^ Vaughn, Renee (November 14, 1983). "Signs To Specify 'Primary' Roads". The Tennessean. p. 17. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
- ^ TDOT (March 1986). "Urgent Highway Needs" (PDF).
- ^ [1]
- Tennessee Department of Transportation (January 24, 2003). "State Highway and Interstate List 2003".
- Official Tennessee State Maps
- mileage retrieved from Delorme Street Atlas USA