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The Interstate Highway System of the United States, in addition to being a network of freeways, also includes a number of Business Routes assigned by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). These routes connect a central or commercial district of a city or town with an Interstate bypass, and are signed with green shields resembling the Interstate Highway shield. The word BUSINESS is used instead of INTERSTATE, and, above the number, where the state name is sometimes included, the word LOOP or SPUR appears. A business loop has both ends as its "parent", while a business spur has a "dangling end", sometimes running from the end of the Interstate to the downtown area.

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  • The Interstate Highway System of the United States, in addition to being a network of freeways, also includes a number of Business Routes assigned by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). These routes connect a central or commercial district of a city or town with an Interstate bypass, and are signed with green shields resembling the Interstate Highway shield. The word BUSINESS is used instead of INTERSTATE, and, above the number, where the state name is sometimes included, the word LOOP or SPUR appears. A business loop has both ends as its "parent", while a business spur has a "dangling end", sometimes running from the end of the Interstate to the downtown area. As the main purpose of a Business Interstate is to serve a downtown area, it is typically routed on surface roads. Thus Business Interstates do not have to meet Interstate Highway standards and are not considered part of the Interstate Highway System. AASHTO does, however, apply similar standards as to new U.S. Highways, requiring a new Business Interstate to meet certain design standards. Business Interstates are also sometimes routed onto freeways that were once designated as mainline Interstates themselves, such as the now-decommissioned Interstate 40 Business in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and the existing Interstate 80 Business in Sacramento, California. Business Interstates are most often posted in the western states, across the Great Plains and in Michigan. Eastern states generally did not designate business routes, as most of the Interstates paralleled the original U.S. Highways instead of directly replacing them. With the exception of mountainous areas, this left most of the U.S. Highways in place, or as co-signed routes with the parent Interstate, while the former routes were redesignated as local or frontage roads. In contrast, construction of the Interstate system in the western states often directly overlaid the old U.S. Highway, leaving the former road impassable or as a disconnected route. Exceptions were at cities and towns, where the freeway would shift onto a bypass around them. This often left extant segments of old U.S. Highways in place, with a business route designation applied to them as a motorist aid to and from a business district of collection of motorists services. Like auxiliary Interstate Highways, Business Interstates can be repeated from state to state along their route. However, unlike auxiliary Interstate Highways, Business Interstates can also be repeated in several locations within the same state. (en)
  • 州間高速道路通勤別線（しゅうかんこうそくどうろつうきんべっせん、Business Loop Interstate）は、アメリカ合衆国の州間高速道路であり、2種類あるの1つである（もう1つは州間高速道路通勤支線）。州間高速道路の別線として機能し、本線が郊外を抜けて設置されているのに対し、市街地などの都市部ビジネス地域を経るルートとして設置されている。路線番号は本線たる州間高速道路と同じ番号が付されている。 州間高速道路通勤線の路線番号を表す案内標識の色から、州間高速道路通勤支線と併せてグリーン・インターステート (Green Interstate) と呼ばれる場合もある。 (ja)
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  • Highway shields for Business Loop Interstate 24 and Business Spur Interstate 196 (en)
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  • Business Loop Interstate nn (en)
  • Business Spur Interstate nn (en)
  • Interstate nn Business Loop (en)
  • Interstate nn Business Spur (en)
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  • 1956-06-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Interstate nn (en)
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  • Business Loop: (en)
  • Business Spur: (en)
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  • Interstate Highways in the 48 contiguous states (en)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (en)
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  • 州間高速道路通勤別線（しゅうかんこうそくどうろつうきんべっせん、Business Loop Interstate）は、アメリカ合衆国の州間高速道路であり、2種類あるの1つである（もう1つは州間高速道路通勤支線）。州間高速道路の別線として機能し、本線が郊外を抜けて設置されているのに対し、市街地などの都市部ビジネス地域を経るルートとして設置されている。路線番号は本線たる州間高速道路と同じ番号が付されている。 州間高速道路通勤線の路線番号を表す案内標識の色から、州間高速道路通勤支線と併せてグリーン・インターステート (Green Interstate) と呼ばれる場合もある。 (ja)
  • The Interstate Highway System of the United States, in addition to being a network of freeways, also includes a number of Business Routes assigned by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). These routes connect a central or commercial district of a city or town with an Interstate bypass, and are signed with green shields resembling the Interstate Highway shield. The word BUSINESS is used instead of INTERSTATE, and, above the number, where the state name is sometimes included, the word LOOP or SPUR appears. A business loop has both ends as its "parent", while a business spur has a "dangling end", sometimes running from the end of the Interstate to the downtown area. (en)
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  • List of business routes of the Interstate Highway System (en)
  • 州間高速道路通勤別線 (ja)
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