Prior to the completion of the bridge in 1935, Whidbey Island was linked to Fidalgo Island by the Deception Pass ferry, which ran from 1924 to 1935.

Prior to the completion of the current Air France head office in Tremblay-en-France in December 1995, Air France was headquartered in a tower located next to the Gare Montparnasse rail station in Montparnasse and in the 15th arrondissement ; Air France had its headquarters in the tower for about 30 years.

Prior to the completion of Arco Plaza, Anderson commissioned Bayer to design a monumental sculpture-fountain to be installed between the dark green granite towers.

Prior to the completion of the Assembly Hall at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1963, the building had the largest free-spanning dome in the United States and was the largest in the world from 1902-1913.

Prior to completion of I-35, traffic was routed directly through town ; generating significant sales revenue to many retailers which literally had a major highway running directly past their doors.

Prior to completion of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad in 1859, the city was minimally developed with cheap frame houses, with little pretense of architectural beauty or design.

Prior to the building's completion, the township conducted business from a rented basement office at Kiski Park Plaza shopping center on Route 56 at the intersection of the 356 by-pass.

Prior to the building's completion in 1984, Music & Art ( a / k / a " The Castle on the Hill ") was located on Convent Avenue and 135th Street in what has since become part of City College ( CCNY )' s South Campus ; the building is home to A. Philip Randolph High School.

Prior to the completion in 1844 of a long tunnel through a spur in the Moelwyn Mountain, the slate trains were worked over the top via inclines ( designed by Robert Stephenson ), the site of which can still be seen but there are no visible remnants.

Prior to its completion, traffic travelling from nearby Southampton and Portsmouth ( major ferry ports ) and from farther west to London and the north had to exit the truncated M3 and travel on the heavily congested 1930s Winchester Bypass.

Prior to the completion of the Empire Connection in 1991 the Maple Leaf originated at Grand Central Terminal in New York instead of Penn Station.

Prior to the completion of the granite wall in the 1920s, the prison saw numerous escape attempts ; the first one occurring shortly after the first inmates arrived in the 1880s.

Prior to the completion of the M6 motorway in 1971 and the opening of the A1-M1 Link road in 1994 traffic would have used the A45 road.

Prior to completion, on June 1, the Hudson River leased the Troy and Greenbush.

Prior to the completion of the Mississippi Aerial River Transit in May 1984 and the Portland Aerial Tram in December 2006, it was the only commuter aerial tramway in North America.

Prior to 1999, the pairings for the CWS were not determined until after the completion of the regional tournaments.

Prior to the completion of reservoirs and irrigation works in the mid-20th century, the Tarim's waters eventually reached Lop Nur ( now a salt-encrusted lake bed ).

Prior to the completion of the freeway, US 93 and US 95 originally followed Fremont Street / Boulder Highway from downtown Las Vegas southeast through Henderson towards to Boulder City.

Prior to the completion of Bank of America Stadium, in Charlotte, it was used by the Carolina Panthers NFL team, in its inaugural 1995 season.

Prior to the M74 completion, a solution to the congestion problems has been the Clyde Arc or " Squinty Bridge ", which opened in September 2006-this route is expected to take at least some of the local short-distance traffic away from the Kingston.

Prior even to the ENIAC's completion, the Army procured a second contract from the Moore School to build a successor machine known as the EDVAC.

Prior to the completion of Corridor X in western Alabama, U. S. 43 and U. S. 278 shared a concurrency with U. S. 78 between Guin and Hamilton.

Prior to the completion of Corridor X ( Future I-22 ), these two routes also overlapped U. S. Route 78 between these two towns, with East U. S. 78 travelling in the same direction as West U. S. 278.

Prior to the completion of the Elton B. Stephens ( Red Mountain ) Expressway in Birmingham, U. S. 31, U. S. 78 and U. S. 280 overlapped until they junctioned U. S. Route 11 at the intersection of 1st Avenue North and 24th Street.

Prior to the coming of the Interstate Highway System in the late 1950s, the only improvements to US 75 in Texas beyond building a two-lane paved roadway were in the Houston and Dallas areas.

Prior to the building of Interstate 65, US 31 was the main route for travelers northbound from Birmingham towards Nashville, Tennessee.

Prior to its incorporation, the City of Calimesa existed as an unincorporated census designated town that straddled the Riverside – San Bernardino County line at the location where Interstate 10 climbs the San Gorgonio Pass going eastward from Redlands, California.

Prior to its decommissioning, the fabled Route 66 also shared a concurrence with these Interstate highways.

Prior to the construction of the Northway ( Interstate 87 ), US Route 9 was the major north-south highway between Albany and Montreal, which made Schroon Lake a convenient stopping off point for travelers to purchase gas, lodging, and meals.

Prior to the Interstate era, US 181 traveled into Downtown San Antonio along Presa St. to an intersection with its parent route, US 81, which then ran along Alamo St.

NJ 173 eastbound in Bloomsbury, New Jersey | Bloomsbury at interchange with Interstate 78 in New Jersey | I-78 / U. S. Route 22 in New Jersey | US 22. Prior to 1927, Route 173 was part of Pre-1927 Route 9, which was designated in 1917 to run from Phillipsburg to Elizabeth.

Prior to the creation of the Interstate Highway System, many states east of the Rocky Mountains had already started building and operating their own long-distance intercity toll roads, or turnpikes.

Prior to the construction of the Interstate Highway system, US 45 was one of the main routes south out of Chicago toward New Orleans, LA.

Prior to a 1964 highway renumbering project, US 6 extended to Long Beach along what is now US 395, California 14, Interstate 5, Interstate 110 / California 110, and California 1.

Prior to the Interstate era, it extended nearly 300 miles ( 483 km ) farther west to an intersection with US 80 ( now Interstate 20 ) before Interstate 10 supplanted it.

Prior to the construction of the Bee Line, State Road 528 was a surface road connecting Interstate 4 with the McCoy Jetport ( now Orlando International Airport ) and State Road 15 ( Narcoossee Road ).

Prior to being designated US 4, the road from Whitehall, New York eastward through Vermont was New England Interstate Route 13 ( NE-13 ).

Prior to the construction of Exit 8 on Interstate 95 ( which provides direct access to southern Beaufort County ), U. S. 278 went from Ridgeland through Old House and Okatie toward Bluffton, along present-day state routes 336, 462, and 170.

Prior to the completion of Interstate 80 in eastern Utah US-189 formed the main streets of Coalville and other communities now bypassed by I-80.

Prior to 1992, the southern terminus of U. S. 89 was at Nogales, Arizona, and the highway proceeded to Flagstaff, Arizona, along what is now Interstate 19, Arizona State Route 79, U. S. Route 60, U. S. Route 93, and Arizona State Route 89.

Prior to the completion of Interstate 5 and Interstate 405 SSH-1I had its eastern terminus at U. S. Route 99 ( aka PSH-1, now SR-99 ).

Prior to 2006, only the portion between O ' Hare ( Interstate 90 ) and 95th Street ( U. S. 12 / U. S. 20 ) was 8 lanes, with the remainder being 6 lanes.

Prior to the construction of Interstate 17, State Route 69 continued south to Phoenix, Arizona as the Prescott-Phoenix Hwy or Black Canyon Highway on a different alignment, through the ghost towns of Bumble Bee and Cordes.

Prior to Mountain Pointe's opening, Ahwatukee was part of the service areas of Corona del Sol High School ( five miles away from Mountain Pointe and east of the Interstate 10 freeway ) and Tempe High School.