I-80 and US 50 are freeways here in the Sacramento area. Highway 40 is a surface street that runs parallel to 80 and several miles north of 50.
At least in Ohio, “since when” is 1977, there was a state law.
As in Michigan since 2001 but that’s for a different road. Pretty recent, really.
Wasn’t the pro-Columbus stuff intended to be a symbol of Italian-American pride, not a slur against Natives? Link
I’m pretty sure it was a nod for the 1990 hit Home Alone.
I regular drive I-80, and have gone as far as San Francisco to Elko. Although I am concentrating on driving, I have never seen any Columbus signs in NV, nor Eisenhower (Google tells me that Eisenhower refers to a network of multiple freeways, and the whole length from SF to Cheyenne of 80 is officially part of that, but I remember zero signs). Nor Lincoln Highway, although Google tells me that’s defunct and only refers to short stretch of 80 that overlap it.
The only name I remember seeing is Alan S. Hart, but I can’t remember exactly where the signs are, though it’s supposed to be Sacramento to NV.
I believe that since then, the state has banned public funds from being used to put up commemorative freeway name signs. So a lot of those names now only exist in the law.
I was on a road some while back that identified itself as “The Highway of the Grand Army of the Republic”. Needless to say, that made me a bit uneasy. Kept checking in my mirrors.
Wouldn’t want them to liberate your truckload of slaves?
Kinda puts that line in Little Feat’s Willin’ in a whole creepy new light…