Interstate 24

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Interstate 24 is a primary Interstate Highway in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States. The Interstate runs in a northwest–to–southeast alignment in the U.S. states of Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia, with more than half of the highway in Tennessee. It serves the cities of Chattanooga, Murfreesboro, Nashville, and Clarksville in Tennessee, and Paducah in Kentucky. In Tennessee, I-24 is a major truck route, and many of the urban segments suffer from severe congestion. Other segments pass through mountainous terrain with hazardous curves and steep grades, including the short segment in Georgia. In Kentucky and Illinois, I-24 is predominantly a rural route. I-24 first appeared in early plans for the Interstate system as a freeway between Chattanooga and Nashville. After the system was authorized by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, an effort began to extend the route west of Nashville to improve connectivity between the Southeast and Midwest, particularly St. Louis....

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