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Interstate 40 (I-40) in Tennessee runs from west to east, from the Mississippi River at the Arkansas border to the Blue Ridge Mountains at the North Carolina state line. At 455.28 miles (732.70 km), the Tennessee segment of I-40 is the longest of the eight states through which it passes and the state's longest Interstate Highway. Paralleling the older U.S. Route 70 corridor, I-40 passes through Tennessee's three largest cities—Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville—and serves the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most-visited national park in the U.S. Built in segments, I-40 in Tennessee was mostly complete by the late 1960s. The construction of the highway resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe (1971), increasing the scope for judicial review of administrative actions, in this case the route I-40 would take through Memphis. The case caused the state to realign I-40's route onto what was originally a section of I-240. (Full article...)
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Wehwalt - I noticed you changed the wording of the final sentence to specify that the northern loop around Memphis was originally planned to be part of I-240, presumably due to the fact that it wasn't open at the time of the court ruling. In case you don't already know, the northern loop was actually signed as I-240 for the first two years it was open and mileposts and exit numbers on the present-day I-240 are still based on this routing; the park route wasn't officially cancelled until almost a year after the section opened. As a result, the original wording is okay. Bneu2013 (talk) 18:51, 21 September 2023 (UTC)