Since I-40 runs pretty much the same route, there are already sections of US Highway 66 that basically no longer exist. It might be nice to actually separate off a parallel roadway, as scenic as possible, with all the side shops and touristy attractions of the old days, and see if people will buy in, travel at a more leisurely pace, see the sights, buy the trinkets, and eat at the various diners, hamburger joints, etc. along that road.

Let it go. In another 20 years, anyone who cares about the road will be dead anyways. This is why we have books. We don't save the ferries where bridges now carry the traffic.

Didn't we just cover this a month or two ago?

Yes. I now agree fully, it only matters in a sentimental sense.

Makes about as much sense as recommissioning wagon trails so people could once again take months traveling by covered wagon across the wastelands....

Mother dearest,

Had to kill and eat the last horse, prospects dimming...we hope for rain....coyotes carried off little Bohunk in the night, no trace....Winter coming....Had to burn all the furniture , no trees here....

Why not? After all, decommissioning rail routes, shipping lanes and flights happens. Why not unused roads as well?

That way, Country & Western singers could write tunes about how good it once was, adding to the culture of what is, after all, a very young nation that is still under development.

I don't care either way, really, but now you've stuck your nose in, I say rebuild it!

Fund it, then!

Reminds me of any old joke: Kentucky Rancher to the Texas Rancher: "We have enough gold stored up in Kentucky to build a fence of gold around Texas six feet high."

Texan retorts: "Go ahead and build it, and if we like it, we will buy it."

So yeah, Texas could easily pay for the restoration of the part of U.S. Highway 66 through the Panhandle of Texas (Amarillo, I-40, etc.), since some parts have been maintained anyway. If nothing else, the restored highway would make a great place to hold antique car road rallies.

I would like to see a coast-to-coast road like the German autoban. It could run parallel to 66 and bring new business to 66 dwellers. Gas stations, restaurants, repair shops and emergency services would spring up along the way.

Route 66 has as much importance as the trans-continental railroad in the history of our nation and should be preserved. We as a nation are too quick to abandon that which doesn't make money for someone. The deep pocket money barons would like to see the non-money makers go away. Is there something wrong with our society? Mount Rushmore was never finished; why was that?

There is a coast-to-coast highway paralleling route 66 - it is called I-40. I runs through Amarillo.

You can thank Ike for instituting our Interstate Highway system, based upon the German Autobahn.

Mt. Rushmore - never finished because they ran out of money, then the old man died, and the clock stopped. Whose face was next, and where were they going to put it? If you say Obama, I quit.

What a splendid idea, my good man! Who has the dynamite, and the air drills? I can see my grandson asking me - what did you do when you retired from the power plant Grampa?

I wonder who has the plans - surely they have already been drawn up...

I'd go with 3D Laser engraving it into the mountain.

A few months to check out the mountain and get any cracks prepped then a few weeks of blasting away with megawatt industrial laser and its done!

Industrial CO2 based laser of course with a total loss CO2 usage system fed by commercial tanker trucks even if it doesn't need that much.

Make the environazis heads explode with rage too!

Man, I love the way you think! You could almost be my long-lost half-brother.