Before Interstate 65 was constructed, the main route between Nashville, Tennessee and Birmingham, Alabama was U. S. Route 31.

Before the creation of the U. S. Interstate Highway system, U. S. 68 was one of the main southward routes from Detroit, Michigan.

Before the creation of the Interstate Highway System, US 50 was a major east – west route.

Before I-478 was moved to the Westway project in 1971, that project was planned as I-695, which would have continued north along the Henry Hudson Parkway to the George Washington Bridge ( Interstate 95 ).

Before the LMA with WZTV began, WXMT had planned to build a state-of-the-art studio facility along the " south loop " of Interstate 40 in Nashville.

Before the Interstate era, US 31 was a major north – south highway.

Before the Grand Rapids – Benton Harbor segment was completed, the Michigan State Highway Department ( MSHD ), predecessor to the modern MDOT petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids.

Before its designation, it was known as several different legislative route numbers, including 258 from Interstate 580 to present-day SR 61, and 227 from Warren Boulevard to U. S. Route 50.

Before the completion of the Interstate system, U. S. Highway 70 was sometimes referred to as the " Broadway of America ", due to its status as one of the main east – west thoroughfares in the nation.

Before the Interstate Highway System numbering was decided upon, I-195 was planned as a relocation of US 6 ; in fact, all but the last section was signed as US 6 when built ( the first section only eastbound though ).

Before 1956, SR 18 continued south of San Bernardino to Lakewood, routed on what is now Interstate 215 and State Route 91 as well as Lakewood Boulevard.

Before reaching exit 1, eastbound traffic makes a curve while westbound traffic goes to Interstate 15 / 90 without making such a curve, therefore that portion of I-115 contains a large median.

Before Interstate 40 was built in the 1960s, TN-56 went directly through the town of Baxter and proceeded down what is now the Old Baxter Road to Silver Point and then to Smithville.

Before the construction of Interstate 75 ( I-75 ) in the Northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, US 27 was the main highway north from Grayling to Cheboygan.

Before Interstate 45, a small, two-story interurban station was located on College Ave. which crossed Airport Blvd.

Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house.

Due to the Gregorian calendar's obvious connotations of Western Christianity, non-Christians and even some Christians sometimes replace the traditional era notations " AD " and " BC " (" Anno Domini " and " Before Christ ") with " CE " and " BCE " (" Common Era " and " Before Common Era ").

Before the current positive era of Eastern and Oriental Orthodox dialogues, Chalcedonians sometimes used to call the non-Chalcedonians " monophysites ", though the Coptic Orthodox Church in reality regards monophysitism as a heresy.

Before the industrial era, travel by water was often easier than over land.

Before the Christian era, sodomy was not illegal in Greek or, most believe, in Roman law, between adult citizens, but homosexual acts between citizens were considered acceptable only under certain social circumstances.

Before the Cambrian era, it becomes much more difficult since there are fewer rock exposures preserved.

Before the VCR era, this would be the only opportunity audiences had of seeing a program more than once.

Before the computer mass storage era, most RTTY stations stored text on paper tape using paper tape punchers and readers.

Before the era of drug smuggling and human trafficking, smuggling had acquired a kind of nostalgic romanticism, in the vein of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped:

Before the modern era, the Bhikkhuni Sangha spread to most Buddhist countries including Burma ( also known as Myanmar ), with the notable exceptions being Tibet and Thailand.

Before this, Huang ( 皇 ) and Di ( 帝 ) were given as titles of a number of rulers from the era known as the " sage kings " period, supposedly predating written history, but probably coinciding with or following the invention and early stages of evolution for the Chinese writing system.

Before the steamboat era faded, Camden had become a railroad town — served by the mainline of the Texas and St. Louis ( Cotton Belt ) and by branch lines of the Missouri Pacific and the Rock Island railroads.

Before the Baroque era, keyboard music generally was not written for one instrument or another, but rather was written to be played on any keyboard instrument.

Before the era of printing, manuscripts were handwritten, and so few copies existed, explaining why so much has been lost.

Before the computer era, plaintext most commonly meant message text in the language of the communicating parties.

Before acquiring different forms of weaponry beginning in the colonial era, Seminole ancestors originally used spears with flint, bone or cane tips, war clubs studded with sharks ' teeth, and bows and arrows.

Before Spanish colonization ( a time referred to as the prehispanic era ), two large tribes, the Caribs and the Muiscas, inhabited this part of modern day Colombia.

Before the line closures of the Beeching era, the lines to Buxton and via Millers Dale were considered the main lines from London to Manchester, carrying named expresses such as The Palatine.

Before the Meiji era ( 1868 – 1912 ), each local region had its own timezone in which noon was set to when the sun is exactly at its zenith.

Before the tragedy, there was an era of static, idealized plastic art in the form of sculpture that represented the Apollonian view of the world.

Before the era of Napoleon, the area was divided into many small bits and pieces of independent states.

* University of Buffalo " Before Prohibition: Images from the preprohibition era when many psychotropic substances were legally available in America and Europe " Addiction Research Unit

Before the reform era, aspects of Chinese society also contributed to shaping the contemporary structure for maintaining public order.

Before the open era began, there was no prize money, other than an expense allowance, and no endorsement deals.

Before sea levels rose at the end of the last Ice Age, Borneo was part of the mainland of Asia, forming, with Java and Sumatra, the upland regions of a peninsula that extended east from present day Indochina and Thailand.

Before he had the soprano vibraphone, he used song bells as an extended range of the standard vibraphone ; the song bells were similar in timbre, but soprano vibraphone was naturally the more ideal extension of the standard vibraphone.

Before the boundary settlement of 1873 the small states of Rushan and Shugnan extended to the left bank of the Oxus, and the province of Darwaz, on the other hand, extended to the right bank.

Before they lost southern parts of the province to Yakub Beg in 1863, their practical authority, as Ney Elias and Younghusband consistently maintained, had never extended south of their outposts at Sanju and Kilian along the northern foothills of the Kun Lun range.

Before the 12th century, when drainage and embankment efforts led by monks began to separate the land from the estuarine mudflats, the Wash was the tidal part of The Fens that extended as far as Cambridge and Peterborough.

Before the creation of Mercer County in 1838, the southern border extended to Nassau Street in Princeton.

Before 1736, all settlement in Pennsylvania was kept east of the Susquehanna River, but the Indian Treaty of 1736 extended Lancaster County's boundary westward indefinitely.

Before the diversion was made round the extended runway at Scampton, with a very slight diversion at Broughton, it was possible to travel about 33 miles, from the Newport Arch, the Roman north gate at Lincoln, to the Parish of Winteringham along a road so slightly curved as to be regarded as straight.

Before his death, he wrote to Liu Bei, " Most of my extended family of 200 people were killed by Cao Cao.

Also, due to geographical problems, the platforms of stations on this line ( Central ( Tsuen Wan line platforms use island platforms ), Wan Chai, Causeway Bay, Tin Hau, North Point ( Before Tseung Kwan O Line was extended to North Point ), and Sai Wan Ho ) are located on two different levels, this also makes the platform and concourse separated in two parts, so there are some passageways and long escalators on those stations to link between the platform and concourse.

Before 1979, the highway terminated in the north at Kelsey Bay, where BC Ferries originally began its northern route to Prince Rupert until moving its southern terminus north to Port Hardy after the highway was extended.

Before Candlestick Park's upper deck was extended, the area behind right field was occupied by three small bleacher sections and a lot of open space.

Before the section between the M11 and A13 opened in 1987, the A406 designation extended as far as east as Gants Hill.

In 2002, Q magazine named Badly Drawn Boy in their list of the " 50 Bands to See Before You Die ", although this was as part of a sub-list of " 5 Bands That Could Go Either Way " on account of Gough's tendency to talk and tell stories for extended periods in concert rather than play songs.

Before 1982, coastal nations arbitrarily extended their territorial waters in an effort to control activities which are now regulated by the exclusive economic zone, such as offshore oil exploration or fishing rights ( see Cod Wars ).

Before his death in a riding accident in 1844, Barber had extended his local landholdings to, which he named " Glenrock ".

Before the battle proper, Aragorn beheads the Mouth of Sauron in the extended edition of the film.

Before 248, was extended from its orbital run around Upminster Park Estate to connect into to Romford town centre, the London Transport buses reaching Upminster station were the 193 and the 86.

Before 1979, Webb had spent extended periods in the Southwest, New England, and on the West Coast.

Before the regulation works of the 19th century, the lake extended in the south-east to the marshlands of the Hanság () which have been increasingly drained and claimed for agriculture from the 16th century onward.

Before the year 1000 in Italy, France and England, great churches extended the benefits of such associations to lay folk.

Before the war, the section from Cirencester to Gloucester was renumbered the A417, and the A419 was extended from Cirencester to Stroud and then on part of the route of the former A434 through Stonehouse to a junction with the A38 at Hardwicke, just south of Gloucester.

Before the war it was extended to Gloucester, on the former route of the A419, and on to Ledbury and Hope under Dinmore.