A major reason for the motorway construction " mania " of the 2000s is a previous political halt of the major Croatian highway project, today's A1, in the 1970s and 1980s under former Yugoslavia.

Even where rooms were rented overnight to middle-class travellers ( and not locals or extended-stay clients ) there have been ongoing problems with theft of motel property by travellers ; everything from waterbeds to television sets to bedspreads and pillows have routinely gone missing in what one 1970s Associated Press report labelled " highway robbery ".

In the 1970s the FHWA began to allow state highway agencies to spend federal funds on HOV lanes.

Increased car traffic resulted in the construction of the interstate-model highway Route 17 through Binghamton and Johnson City in the early 1970s, replacing the Binghamton railroad station as the transportation hub of the region.

The biggest factor in this decline was the widening of U. S. 23 to a four lane highway which resulted in the removal of several hundred residential dwellings in the 1960s and 1970s.

With the construction of the interstate highway system and containerization shipping facilities ( particularly at Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal ), the docks became obsolete, and by the 1970s were more or less abandoned.

The reservation and abutments for the rail line were utilized instead for a second carriageway for the dike's two-lane highway in the 1970s, transforming the latter into today's four-lane A7 motorway.

The Inner Belt highway was proposed to cross the Charles River at the Boston University Bridge, but its construction was canceled in the 1970s.

In Kentucky the term " parkway " designates a controlled-access highway in the Kentucky Parkway system, with nine built in the 1960s and 1970s.

" Jacobs herself lived in an urban neighborhood ( The Annex, Toronto ) which would have been paved over in the 1970s by a highway project to serve the suburbs, the Spadina Expressway, had the proponents of urban secession not stopped it.

The British Columbia government owns the first of the highway, the only portion paved during the late 1960s and 1970s.

The paved highway first opened in 1953, replacing a stretch of Highway 1 between Nanaimo and Campbell River, finally being extended to the northern tip of the island in the late 1970s.

Past the Craig's Crossing Interchange, Highway 19 resumes its 1953 alignment, which today is a 4-lane, divided arterial highway with a concrete median barrier mostly constructed during the 1970s.

In the 1960s and 1970s, free flow tolling was tested with fixed transponders at the undersides of the vehicles and readers, which were located under the surface of the highway.

The idea that highway design could be influenced by acoustical engineering considerations including selection of surface paving types arose in the very early 1970s.

Nevertheless, highway cargo movement increased rapidly in the 1960s and 1970s, doubling between 1970 and 1979.

From 1966 until the early 1970s, SIGNAL organized thousands of citizens and elected officials ( including Planning Commissioner Eleanor Guggenheimer, Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving, Mayor John V. Lindsay, and U. S. Senator Jacob Javits ) to participate in annual winter walks through the highland forests, tracing the route of the proposed ( and already mapped ) highway route.

In the 1970s, the provincial capital of the largely undeveloped and remote province of Paktika was moved from the town of Urgun to Sharana due to its proximity with the main highway, connecting it to the larger cities and commercial centres of Kabul, Ghazni and Kandahar.

In the 1970s, the Mackay Highway was upgraded from a 2-lane highway to a 4-lane divided highway, and the controlled-access section of the highway was extended further to accommodate the growing town of Quispamsis.

The I-95 project and several other highway projects in and around Boston, including the highly controversial Inner Belt ( I-695 ), were cancelled due to heavy public opposition in the early 1970s.

The highway is one of two Interstate Highways in New York to use distance-based exit numbering, the result of a New York State Department of Transportation ( NYSDOT ) experiment from the 1970s.

From the late 1960s to the early 1970s the highway was almost entirely realigned and constructed to three lanes, being deviated as necessary, between Kirkconnell and Glanmire.

From Woodville Road west to The Northern Road the highway was widened, generally progressively westward, from the mid 1960s to the late 1970s.

A $25 billion advertising budget in an $800 billion economy was envisioned for the 1970s here Tuesday by Peter G. Peterson, head of one of the world's greatest camera firms, in a key address before the American Marketing Assn..

Its modern development was initiated in the 1970s when it adds a modern instrumentation to the image of the electric guitar, synthesizer and drums.

During the 1970s and 1990s, there was an epistemological shift away from the positivist traditions that had largely informed the discipline.

The system was first discovered at the end of the 19th century, and first excavated and studied in the 1970s.

Braudel's work came to define a " second " era of Annales historiography and was very influential throughout the 1960s and 1970s, especially for his work on the Mediterranean region in the era of Philip II of Spain.

By the 1970s the shift was underway from the earlier economic history to cultural history and the history of mentalities.

This claw-shaped anchor was designed by Peter Bruce from the Isle of Man in the 1970s.

The Concord School of Philosophy, which closed following Alcott's death in 1888, was reopened almost 90 years later in the 1970s.

( In the 1970s Ruelle and the Dutch mathematician Floris Takens produced a new model for turbulence, and it was Ruelle who invented the concept of a strange attractor in a dynamical system.

This program culminated in the proofs of the Weil conjectures, the last of which was settled by Grothendieck's student Pierre Deligne in the early 1970s after Grothendieck had largely withdrawn from mathematics.

To store matte information, the concept of an alpha channel was introduced by Alvy Ray Smith in the late 1970s, and fully developed in a 1984 paper by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff.

One is on Medny Island ( Commander Islands, Russia ), which was reduced by some 85 – 90 %, to around 90 animals, as a result of mange caused by an ear tick introduced by dogs in the 1970s.

Another instrumental called " Brother " was used as the theme to the BBC Radio 1 Top 20 / 40 when Tom Browne / Simon Bates presented the programme in the 1970s.

In the 1970s Korner's main career was in broadcasting.

During much of the 1970s Roma's appearance in the top half of Serie A was sporadic.

Most of the drugs in the second generation, known as atypical antipsychotics, have been developed more recently, although the first atypical antipsychotic, clozapine, was discovered in the 1950s and introduced clinically in the 1970s.

Until the 1970s there was considerable debate within psychiatry on the most appropriate term to use to describe the new drugs.

The park was a popular attraction during the 1970s but was abandoned in 1993 due to financial difficulties.

The town was redeveloped in the 1970s with a new town centre layout and traffic system.

for torpedo manufacture ( which were test-fired in Loch Long ) and then in the early 1970s was the scene of the Plessey sit-in.

While it was not the actual " Birthplace of Hip Hop " – the genre developed slowly in several places in the 1970s – it was verified to be the place where one of the pivotal and formative events occurred.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

Soon after, BBS software was being written for all of the major home computer systems of the late 1970s era-the Apple II, Atari, Commodore and TRS-80 being some of the most popular.