The best reason that can be advanced for the state adopting the practice was the advent of expanded highway construction during the 1920s and '30s.

Now the dirt highway was bordered on either side by a fairly deep drainage ditch, too broad to leap over unless you were an Olympic star.

Meanwhile, it was learned the State Highway Department is very near being ready to issue the first $30 million worth of highway reconstruction bonds.

The large sign, formerly reading " University of Lawsonomy ", was a familiar landmark for motorists in the region for many years and was visible from I-94 about 13 miles north of the Illinois state line, on the east side of the highway.

In 2009, a highway in Missouri was named " Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel Highway " after a Springfield, Missouri area Neo-Nazi group cleaned the stretch of highway as part of an " Adopt-A-Highway " plan.

The Central Artery / Tunnel Project ( CA / T ), known unofficially as the Big Dig, was a megaproject in Boston that rerouted the Central Artery ( Interstate 93 ), the chief highway through the heart of the city, into a 3. 5-mile ( 5. 6-km ) tunnel.

The Big Dig was the most expensive highway project in the U. S. and was plagued by escalating costs, scheduling overruns, leaks, design flaws, charges of poor execution and use of substandard materials, criminal arrests, and even four deaths.

As early as 1930, the city's Planning Board was recommending a raised express highway running north-south through the downtown district in order to draw traffic off the city streets.

There was chronic congestion on the Central Artery ( I-93 ), an elevated six-lane highway through the center of downtown Boston, which was, in the words of Pete Sigmund, " like a funnel full of slowly-moving, or stopped, cars ( and swearing motorists ).

Comorian relations with Japan were also significant because Japan was the second largest provider of aid, consisting of funding for fisheries, food, and highway development.

The former route of the highway through downtown Cadillac was redesignated as BUS US 131.

Mr. Wait convinced the New York Commissioner of Highways to construct an experimental section of highway near New Paltz, New York, using one sack of Rosendale to six sacks of synthetic cement, and it was proved a success and for decades the Rosendale-synthetic cement blend became common use in highway and bridge construction.

He later became the Highway Commissioner for the State of Indiana and was assigned to building a highway from Indianapolis, Indiana to Louisville, Kentucky.

At the time, there was no state highway system, since roads were purely a local responsibility.

The voters approved a $ 18 million bond issue for the construction of a state highway system in 1910 and the first Highway Commission was convened in 1911.

The Interstate highway network was brought to Davenport in 1956.

There was Road, a story about an interstate highway in Minnesota ; a project about Robert Golka, the creator of laser-induced fireballs in Utah ; and the story of Centralia, Pennsylvania, the coal town in which an " inextinguishable subterranean fire " ignited in 1962.

* The Wernicke SkyCar The Wernicke four seat AirCar was designed during the 1990s and involves narrow wing technology to enable it to transition between flying and highway use without any alterations whatsoever.

Compared to other " visions of the future ," Bel Geddes ' was rather achievable — the most advanced technology posited was the automated highway system, of which General Motors built a working prototype by 1960.

Beyond the forest all our paths merge into a single great highway which ends in the barren, eroded hills of Judea.

Varying elevations are common throughout the city, and it is even possible to experience several microclimates while travelling on a single highway due to these changing elevations.

The consolidated highway, which is now the Interstate 40 / Business 85 junction, is located just south of downtown and forms the western end of a stretch of freeway known throughout the region as " Death Valley ", a congested and accident-prone stretch of roadway where six major federal and Interstate routes combine into a single freeway facility.

U. S. Route 183 runs from Kiowa County in the South to Kinsley, where it joins eastbound U. S. 56, running as a single highway to Pawnee County.

The New Jersey Department of Transportation lists Route 7 as a single north – south highway with a small gap between the alignments.

* Concurrency ( road ), a single physical road designated by two or more different highway numbers

The most common application of congestion pricing policies in the U. S. urban transportation context is to toll a single facility ( highway or bridge ).

The design capacity of a single carriageway two-lane highway is more than adequate to cater with the anticipated traffic flows for the foreseeable future.

The hardback edition saw the Internet as one of the " important precursors of the information highway ... suggestive of future " ( p. 89 ); he noted that the " popularity of the Internet is the most important single development in the world of computing since the IBM PC was introduced in 1981 " ( p. 91 ) but " today's Internet is not the information highway I imagine, although you can think of it as the beginning of the highway ", the information highway he envisioned would be as different from the Internet as the Oregon Trail was to Interstate 84.

The main idea behind it was to create a network of wide roads that would connect all the major points of interest in North and South America with a single, long highway.

In about 2004 these plaques were replaced by a new system, which gives each bridge a single number showing the distance from the start of the highway in hundreds of metres.

The final result is better understood as a small network of interconnected paved roads, rather than a single highway.

The portion of I-385 that replaced U. S. 276 ( from SC-417 in Mauldin to SC-56 / I-26 in Clinton ) was initially the first phase built of an SC DOT plan that predated the Interstate System to upgrade and bypass existing through routes, the goal of forming a single limited-access highway from Greenville to the port of Charleston via the State Capital of Columbia.

Bazooka-armed doughboys and a single platoon of tank destroyers came to grips with a column of German Panzer IV tanks on the Houffalize-Noville highway, turned them back after a furious engagement.

Jameson Avenue, which became the conduit to the highway changed from single family homes to a street of apartment buildings, many cheaply built.

The ground was assessed to be too soft to accommodate the M4A4 Sherman tanks of the leading Irish Guards Battle Group forcing the entire Guards Division to stay on the single highway.

As the XXX Corps advanced north-east, it became obvious that the single highway was extremely vulnerable to was prone to traffic jams, and enemy counter-attacks.

On the opposite side of the highway, the two east-bound on-ramps were combined into a wider single ramp, again to allow easier navigation for the longer transport trucks to navigate.

Beyond Kiama Heights, 120 km south of Sydney, the highway is single two lane carriageway to Cambewarra Road Bomaderry.

From Jervis Bay Road southward the highway is mostly single two lane carriageway along the South Coast of New South Wales, passing through Ulladulla, Batemans Bay ( where the 1 km town centre bypass is built as dual carriageway ), Moruya, Narooma and Bega, then bypassing Merimbula and passing through Eden, before crossing the border into Victoria, 550 km from Sydney and 515 km from Melbourne.

After Geelong the highway heads in a generally western direction and is mostly a single two lane carriageway.

In Maitland the highway continues via a dual carriageway CBD bypass to Telarah, from which point it reverts to single carriageway.