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.

" Mount " Megiddo is a Tell on which ancient forts were built to guard the main highway, the Via Maris, which connected Ancient Egypt with Mesopotamia.

The road Karlovac-Plitvice Lakes-Knin, which is on the European route E71, is becoming increasingly unused because Croatia built a separate highway to the west of it.

The first highway system to have been built, the extensive German Autobahn network famously features sections where no speed limit is in force.

Route 6 is a proposed highway, and is not yet built.

In 1913, the United Daughters of the Confederacy conceived the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, a transcontinental highway to be built through the South.

* Samogitian highway-old highway built in the interbellum years connecting Kaunas and Klaipėda.

* Aukštaitian Highway-old highway built in the interbellum years connecting Kaunas, Kėdainiai, Panevėžys and Biržai.

To the west, a major highway was built that linked Manama to the isolated village port of Budaiya, this highway crossed through the ' green belt ' villages of Sanabis, Jidhafs and Duraz.

The early motels were built in the southwestern United States as a replacement for the tourist camps and tourist cabins which had grown around the US highway system.

The highway was built as part of an overall plan to improve transport facilities in southern Balochistan.

Under his reign a port was built at Ancona, with a highway that gave easy access to the interior.

Subway system was built in Seoul, highway network was expanded by 487 km and major port projects were started in Pohang, Ulsan, Masan, Incheon and Busan.

Part of a Syrian SA-6 site built near the Beirut-Damascus highway, and overlooking the Bekaa Valley, in early 1982.

In 2009 the operator Denby Transport designed and built a 25. 25 metre long B-Train ( or B-Double ) semi-trailer truck called the Denby Eco-Link to show the benefits of such a vehicle, which were a reduction in road accidents and result in less road deaths, a reduction in emissions due to the one tractor unit still being used and no further highway investment being required.

North American manufactured highway trucks almost always use an engine built by a third party, such as CAT, Cummins, or Detroit Diesel.

SH2 Tirana-Durres was the first highway to be built after communism

There is also a major highway being built in in the province, the A2 motorway, which when completed will run from the western border of Poland with Germany, through Poznań to Warsaw and then onwards via Belarus to Moscow.

To further improve trade, Darius built a royal highway, a postal system and Phoenician-based commercial shipping.

In autumn 2005, the highest wooden office building in Europe, called the Modular-office, was built in southern Tapiola by next to the Länsiväylä highway.

The Cumberland Road ( National Road ) was the first major improved highway in the United States to be built by the federal government.

In 1937 the Works Progress Administration completely paved and modernized the highway, and built a new western route which took it over the hill and across ranch land to the entrance of Mt.

The highway was built by the Mexican government to improve Baja California's economy and increase tourism.

To the west, a major highway was built that linked Manama to the isolated village port of Budaiya, this highway crossed through the ' green belt ' villages of Sanabis, Jidhafs and Duraz.