Editing Interstate 29 (section)

===Interstate 49===
{{main|Interstate 49}}

Residents of Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana began campaigning in the 1960s to extend I-29 via the US&nbsp;71 corridor from Kansas City, Missouri, to [[New Orleans, Louisiana]].<ref>{{cite news |date=September 1, 1965 |title=Rival Highway Groups Study Compromise |page=20A |work=[[The Northwest Arkansas Times]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90009503/rival-highway-groups-study-compromise/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |accessdate=December 4, 2021 |archive-date=December 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204104555/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90009503/rival-highway-groups-study-compromise/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The campaign would create a limited access highway from New Orleans to Canada and on to [[Winnipeg]].{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} That extension came to be called [[Interstate 49|I-49]], which was not part of the 1957 master plan.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} It was assigned a separate number instead of I-29 to conform with the numbering rules for Interstate Highways (increasing from west to east for north–south routes), as it would lie east of [[Interstate 35|I-35]] and west of [[Interstate 55|I-55]].<ref>{{cite web |year=2012 |title=Interstate 49: Origin, Planning, Construction |url=https://www.modot.org/sites/default/files/documents/History%20-%20Press%20Kit.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.modot.org/sites/default/files/documents/History%20-%20Press%20Kit.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |publisher=Missouri Department of Transportation |accessdate=December 4, 2021}}</ref> When I-49 is complete, the goal of the association will have been accomplished, with only a brief gap (served by [[Kansas City metropolitan area#Interstates|other Interstates]] or US&nbsp;71).