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20a In Ohio?


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I was on US-127 earlier today and that put me on US-20 for a couple of miles. This was heading south out of Michigan and the two are duplexed just west of Fayette. That's just business as usual. Then, a half dozen miles further south, US-127 crosses US-20 again although it's officially called US-20A. Any good gossip or stories about how this came to be? I-80 (Ohio Turnpike) runs between the two Twenties which makes it just a bit more interesting.

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I was on US-127 earlier today and that put me on US-20 for a couple of miles. This was heading south out of Michigan and the two are duplexed just west of Fayette. That's just business as usual. Then, a half dozen miles further south, US-127 crosses US-20 again although it's officially called US-20A. Any good gossip or stories about how this came to be? I-80 (Ohio Turnpike) runs between the two Twenties which makes it just a bit more interesting.

 

Hey Denny,

I was snooping on RV Droz' US Highways site. It looks like US 20A was the original US 20 South alignment, which existed from 1933-1935. It looks like it's been US 20A since '35. As to why there are two alignments of 20 less than 10 miles apart?? Well, that's the $64 question. My guess would be politics and/or money. B)

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