In Washington every road or state highways or state routes is owned and maintained by Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). All Roads in Washington has a State Route number by the US law as approved by the 1963 state legislative session. In 1937 state highways came to be known as state roads. Previously they had names and numbers whereas some had only names like Methow Valley Highway. In 1937 numbers were assigned to those highways which had names only. During this time the highways were divided into primary state highways and secondary state highways. Already existing state highways became primary highways and .the secondary highways are alpha-numeric like SSH 1A.
U.S.A. celebrated the 50th anniversary of its interstate highway system in 2006. There are seven interstate highway routes in Washington like the I-5, I-82, I-90, I-182, I-205, I-405 and I-705. All the highways are numbered. The east-west routes have even numbers and the north-south highways have odd numbers. I-5 links Canada to Mexico covering 276 miles of Washington. I-90 covers 13 states of U.S.A. and is the longest interstate route covering a distance of 3,020 miles. The I-90 has two floating bridges. I-705 is the shortest of all interstate highways.
In Washington the US Routes are also owned by WSDOT. The US Routes are Route 2, Route 12, Route 97, Route 101 and Route 195.
U.S Routes forms an integral part of highway systems in the country. US 2 is a part of the original US highway system approved in November 1926.
In Washington most of the beaches are drivable within a speed limit of 25 MPH.
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