User:Mitchazenia/Civil Defense Routes (1942)

Civil Defense Routes, signed as C.T. CIVIL, N.J. CIVIL, and N.Y. CIVIL, were a system of highways created in the New York Metropolitan Area in 1942 for the United States Army. If the Army needed to commandeer public highways for movement of troops and supplies during World War II, these routes would be open to civilians in that time period. The system, adopted by the states of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, created its own route number system, all beginning with 500. The system was not state-based and routes crossed borders. The roads would be signed with a uniform square white sign.