former U.S. Highway alignment

C52492
concept

A former U.S. Highway alignment is a roadway segment that once carried an official U.S. Highway designation but has since been rerouted, decommissioned, or reclassified under a different route or jurisdiction.

All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
former U.S. Highway corridor 3
former U.S. Highway alignment canonical 2
former U.S. Highway business route 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: former U.S. Highway alignment
Generated description
A former U.S. Highway alignment is a roadway segment that once carried an official U.S. Highway designation but has since been rerouted, decommissioned, or reclassified under a different route or jurisdiction.

Instances (9)

Instance Via concept surface
U.S. Route 395 Business (Inyokern–Ridgecrest) (historical extension toward LA region) former U.S. Highway business route
U.S. Route 101 Bypass in California
surface form: U.S. Route 101 Bypass (California)
former highway alignment
U.S. Route 101 (historic alignment in Los Angeles)
U.S. Route 27 (historic alignment) in Michigan former U.S. Highway corridor
U.S. Route 240 historic alignment former U.S. Highway corridor
historic U.S. Route 466 corridor former U.S. Highway corridor
U.S. Route 75 (historical alignment nearby via Dallas area)
U.S. Route 91 former mainline U.S. Highway
U.S. Route 169 (segment through Fridley and Columbia Heights, before renumbering) former U.S. Highway segment