How could anyone mistake a highway connecting multiple states for an interstate highway?
How could anyone confuse a highway with a federal designation instead of a state designation as an interstate? I mean it’s not like that’s what they were for or anything…
Are you familiar with the journalism practice that authors do not write headlines, choose photos, or write captions?
The caption appears to come directly from Getty so it is even less likely that anyone would be doing an extra checks of it
Yes it is a weird mistake. It’s a “federal highway” right? Anyway, it is weird just based on how the signage for interstate highways looks much different than for the federal ones.
There are Interstate and US highways, both of which are federally numbered. Interstate highways have more stringent design standards and can get more federal funding in general.