Citations:decommission

Usage regarding roads

 * 1992 — Nancy Harris, "Route 66 winds its way through America's history Missouri", The Kansas City Star
 * The now decommissioned highway was tagged "America's Main Street," "the main migrant road" and "Bloody 66. "


 * 2000 — Scott Cooper, "Overview of UCSB's Relationship to the Goleta Old Town Revitalization Plan"
 * The County lobbied elected state officials to have Highway 217 decommissioned as a state highway and transferred to County authority.


 * 2001 — Nathan Cobb, "Homage to the Mother Road", The Boston Globe
 * The Museum of Our National Heritage has nevertheless mounted a small but well-stuffed tribute to the officially decommissioned highway...


 * 2002 — Tim Steil, "Fantastic Filling Stations"
 * Just over two years later, Route 66 was officially decommissioned as a national highway.


 * 2003 — Lyn R. Wilkerson, American Trails Revisited
 * Starting in the mid-1960s, [U.S. 99] was gradually decommissioned, and by the 1970s it was decommissioned entirely.


 * 2006 — Michael Martinez, "Route 66 still a `classic American trek'.", The Chicago Tribune
 * But Karen Macaulay and Andy Garrett say Europeans like them still get their kicks retracing a decommissioned highway that now exists officially only in tour guides and on the occasional brown historical marker.


 * 2006 — Bryson, Rachel Welton, Chasing the Dream: Literature and Regional Construction in California's Great Central Valley
 * Following the construction of the eight-lane Interstate 5 in the 1960s, the federal government eventually decommissioned Highway 99 as a federal roadway, leaving maintenance for the highway in the charge of state and local governments [sic - it was already in charge of state and local governments; it simply had a unified route designation].


 * 2006 — Dan McNichol, The Incredible Story of the U.S. Interstate System
 * U.S. Route 66 was decommissioned piecemeal as Interstate construction progressed.


 * 2006 — Philip L. Jackson, A Rediscovered Frontier: Land Use And Resource Issues in the New West
 * In large part, former transcontinental highway routes such as US 40 and US 66 have been decommissioned where the interstates have been either built over them or beside them.


 * 2006 — Shawnie Kelley, Insider's Guide to Columbus, Ohio
 * When the interstate highways were built, 800 miles of this transcontinental road were decommissioned. Ohio is fortunate to have escaped with most of the road still in use, even after I-70 was built parallel to it.


 * (date unknown) — Oklahoma Department of Transportation, A Chronology of the Construction History of Route 66 in Oklahoma
 * Since the decommission of US Route 66 in 1985, the Oklahoma Department of Transportation has had numerous requests for information concerning the history and construction of this famous highway.