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 217decommissioned 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.
Following the construction of the eight-lane Interstate 5 in the 1960s, the federal government eventually decommissionedHighway 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.
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.
