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State Wants to Fix Its 'Highway to Hell' SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - Hey Satan, the governor of New Mexico has a message for you: Get off the road. Gov. Bill Richardson said he wants to renovate one of the most dangerous roads in the state, which is known by locals as the 'Devil's Highway,' 'Satan's Highway' and 'Highway to Hell.' Richardson wants to change the number of the route officially known as Highway 666 because of the association of the triple sixes with Satan. The highway that rolls through mountain valleys has some of the highest fatalities per mile of any road in New Mexico because of its poor condition. The number 666 is called the number of the beast in the New Testament's Book of Revelations, and over the centuries the triple sixes have become associated with Satan. The highway received the 666 designation in 1942. U.S highway authorities gave it that number because it was the sixth major highway to branch off of the famed road to the West called Route 66...
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