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- Odell’s school underpass has a place in Route 66’s century
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📰 News we're reading
• Route 66 at 100: The rise, fall, and enduring legacy of a transportation icon (asce.org) — Odell’s pedestrian underpass helped children cross beneath Route 66 traffic to reach school, a small but telling part of the highway’s engineering history. As the road turns 100 on Nov. 11, a centennial retrospective explores how its bridges, tunnels and changing alignments shaped travel from Illinois to California. 
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