With the construction of a bypass, the US 131 freeway was extended around the east side of the city.

To many small towns bypassed by freeway construction, embracing 1950s nostalgia and historic restoration is a means to bring in badly needed tourism to restore a sagging local economy.

PR-53-Main freeway between Salinas, Guayama, Yabucoa, Humacao and Fajardo ( currently under construction: section between Salinas and Guayama and Humacao to Fajardo are complete and open ; while section between Guayama, Yabucoa and Humacao are currently under construction ).

The freeway revolt prompted the governor of Massachusetts to halt construction on all remaining expressways within the Route 128 beltway in the early 1970s in lieu of light rail / subway lines to serve areas through which the radial expressways were planned.

In the mid-to-late 1960s, the future Mayor and civil rights activist Sam Abbott led a campaign to halt freeway construction and replace it with a Metrorail line to the site of the former train station, and worked with other neighborhood groups to halt plans for a wider system of freeways going into and out of DC.

Canada does not have a comprehensive national highway system, as decisions about highway and freeway construction are entirely under the jurisdiction of the individual provinces.

Although freeway construction funding was made available to some provinces for portions of the system, the government ultimately decided not to pursue a comprehensive highway conversion.

For example, his support of the Collier-Burns Act in 1947 raised gasoline taxes that funded a massive program of freeway construction.

Numerous infrastructure connecting adjacent junction as directional Torano it branches in the A25 to Pescara, Teramo to Giulianova on SS80, SS81 to Chieti and on the A14 Bologna-Taranto, exit on the freeway Rieti Valley Jump-Terni, exit west on SS80 to L ' Aquila Teramo, near Tivoli and the connection to the A1 motorway allows easy connections with Naples and Milan, the highway construction has contributed greatly to the economic development of the region.

In the 1950s construction began on the freeway portion of Route 21 and it was completed in stages between Chester Avenue in Newark and Monroe Street in Passaic between 1958 and 1973.

In 2010, additional commercial real estate activity is anticipated including the construction of the Lowe ’ s Home Improvement store mentioned earlier ; a new 30, 000 professional office building to house a high tech network-based solutions company named Ednetics ; a 30, 000 LEED certified industrial building to be the home of a subsidiary of Berg Integrated Systems will begin construction in early 2010 ; the State of Idaho Department of Labor will construct their new regional office here in Post Falls that will provide services to the northern five counties of Idaho ; Blue Dog RV is planning on constructing a new recreational vehicle showroom and maintenance facility ; several restaurants are also anticipated to locate within the Pointe at Post Falls regional power center to take advantage of the retail traffic of Cabela ’ s and Wal-Mart ; the City ’ s downtown area is expected to see a major mixed use project also take off with infrastructure and the first phase including a hospitality component begin construction ; and finally the community anticipates that construction on the Beck Road Interchange with Interstate 90 will begin this fall ultimately providing service to the Pointe at Post Falls and EXPO on the north side of the freeway and the Riverbend Commerce Park and Greyhound Event Center on the south side of the Interstate 90.

In the early 1950s, right-of-way for the freeway was acquired and actual construction of the freeway followed.

In the late 1960s, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission ( DVRPC ) proposed construction of a long, $ 20 million freeway along the Route 45 corridor in Gloucester County which would have extended from Exit 24 of Interstate 295 in Woodbury to a planned U. S. Route 322 freeway in Mullica Hill.

After World War II, Novato grew quickly with the construction of tract homes and a freeway.

While the freeway was under construction in 1983, it was discovered that it ran through Native American burial grounds in Deptford.

A freeway has been proposed for construction along this route, passing directly through the Diablo Range west of the city toward the San Francisco Bay Area.

In 1971, Maywood Park again attempted to halt the freeway construction.

The suit charged that the highway commission had refused to hold any public hearings and that construction of the freeway on the proposed route would require cutting many trees and stripping the land, which would cause a great interference with the wildlife of the area, and, in addition would created excessive noise and air pollution which would not be necessary if the freeway took another route.

The City of Halifax named a street at the top of Fairview between Melrose and Adelaide in honor of Gesner in Halifax, formally the street was named Dunbrack ST, The completion of the Dunbrack Street / North West Arm Drive connectors with the Highway 102 freeway during the 1980s required a remaming of the original Dunbrack St.

Although only about three miles ( 5 km ) in length, the replacement freeway cost over $ 1. 2 billion, for several reasons: it crossed over and under the elevated BART line to San Francisco ; it squeezed between a post office, the West Oakland BART station, the Port of Oakland, a rail yard, and a sewage treatment plant ; it occupied an entirely new right-of-way, which required the acquisition of large amounts of valuable industrial real estate near the Port of Oakland ; and of course, it had to be earthquake-proof.

As a result, when congestion on other freeways — Interstate 280, US 101, and Highway 17 — intersecting this path became overwhelming, it was still possible for this freeway to be built with little demolition required.

Public outcry convinced Caltrans to install the standard post-and-metal-beam barrier the entire length of the freeway and also to change their regulations so that median barriers are now required on all high-volume freeways with medians of less than 75 feet ( 23 m ).

" In total, the construction of the freeway also required the demolition or removal or nearly 600 homes, 60 businesses, and 15 farms.

For example, at freeway speeds, less than 40 hp ( 30 kW ) are required to overcome aerodynamic drag, rolling friction, and to operate accessories such as air conditioning.

This extension was not built to freeway standard ( though the new road was still named Kwinana Freeway ) due to insufficient funding required to build the five necessary interchange bridges.

Trucks carrying explosive or flammable cargo are required to exit the M-59 freeway and use the parallel service drive through the Mound Road-Merrill Road interchange just west of Utica.

In November ' 07 the city of Houston gave approval for street closures required to construct the connections to the downtown freeway loop.

* Pedestrians would be required to cross free-flowing traffic on freeway ramps.

Within Mississauga, the freeway encounters its narrowest right-of-way, sandwiched between residential subdivisions on either side that prevent further expansion of the busy route.

In the late 1940s, a freeway was planned to bypass this portion of Route 42, with right-of-way acquisition and construction starting in the 1950s.

During Governor Jerry Brown's tenure in the 1970s, the building of highways was de-emphasized in favor of mass transit, and some building was allowed on the right-of-way with the expectation that the freeway would never be built.

Because the lands on which the freeway was to be built were occupied, the province elected to apply to expropriate the right-of-way in April 1972.

Though sufficient right-of-way was provided for interchanges at both ends as well as two additional lanes, this segment presently has stop signs at both ends ; however, it is a true controlled-access, two-lane freeway in between.

The route includes sufficient right-of-way to build interchanges and two additional lanes later ; the Pine Bluff interchange will be a full freeway-to-freeway facility designed for the future four-lane freeway.

Currently it is a surface road, built on new right-of-way and the rebuilding of Branan Field Road, but there are plans, in the future, for a full freeway.

Highway 416 " North " was a 21 km ( 13 mi ) freeway starting from an interchange at Highway 417 and bypassing the original route of Highway 16 into Ottawa ( now Prince of Wales Drive ) along a new right-of-way.

The route was originally planned as a two-lane freeway on a four-lane right-of-way, with a two-lane outer harbor tunnel across the Patapsco River.

The freeway would be constructed over a right-of-way, running through mostly undeveloped land in the Blackstone River Valley.

Further environmental studies in the late 1980s altered the plans for the construction of the Woonsocket Industrial Highway ; after studies indicated that the freeway, as originally planned, would interfere with the water supply for the city of Woonsocket, RIDOT revised the proposal, removing the large median and reducing the right-of-way.

The freeway was instead planned with a right-of-way and concrete barriers to separate the opposing traffic lanes.

On November 3, 1998, voters approved right-of-way for the freeway by a 61 % margin, and construction continued.

That section of the freeway was completed in the early 1980s, and local planners had included space within the overall right-of-way for a future transitway, which, at the time, was expected to be a busway ; TriMet had not even begun building its first light rail line at that time.

BNSF also cited the difficulties such a freeway would cause the railroad when it would want to expand its own right-of-way to add more tracks along the corridor.

It is distributed free of charge to the neighbourhood bordered by the Ottawa River in the north, the Queensway freeway in the south, the Rideau Canal in the east and a railroad right-of-way in the west.