The Tennessee state routes do not follow a systematic numbering system unlike the
U.S. Highway System
The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States. As the designation and numbering of these h ...
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
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, however, show the state route number for these hidden routes.
The
Tennessee Department of Transportation
The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) is the department of transportation for the State of Tennessee, with multimodal responsibilities in roadways, aviation, public transit, waterways, and railroads. It was established in 1915 as the ...
(TDOT) maintains these routes under the "State Highways" title of state law, 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.
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List
See also
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List of state routes in Tennessee shorter than one mile
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List of special state routes in Tennessee
References
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*Mileage retrieved from
Delorme
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Street Atlas USA
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External links
Tennessee Department of Transportation
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