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.

Phase 1 is the highway network between Kingston and Mandeville which itself has been divided into sub-phases: Phase 1a ( Kingston-Bushy Park ( in actuality, Kingston-Sandy Bay ) highway and the upgrade of the Portmore Causeway ) which was completed June 2006, and Phase 1b ( Sandy Bay-Williamsfield ).

The other highway will connect the city center of Luanda to Viana, and was expected to be completed by the end of 2008.

A four-lane highway atop a causeway, linking Bahrain with the Saudi Arabian mainland via the island of Umm an-Nasan was completed in December, 1986, and financed by Saudi Arabia.

Observers noted that interregional marriages are rare, and that as of 1990 a new four lane highway completed in 1984 between Gwangju and Daegu, the capitals of Jeollanam-do and Gyeongsangbuk-do provinces, had not been successful in promoting travel between the two areas.

When all three corridors are completed, Albania will have an estimated 759 kilometers of highway linking it with its neighbors.

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.

* Widest highway ( maximum number of through lanes ): Interstate 5 along a 2-mile section between Interstate 805 and California State Route 56 in San Diego, California, which was completed in April 2007, is 22 lanes wide.

The city has many highway projects under construction although the four-lane East Coast Highway was completed in 2005.

As the first highway sections were completed on the A1 and A2, the government concession was expanded to include adjoining stretches.

The repavement of the highway taken up for first time in about 50 years is likely to be completed in August 2012.

A four-lane highway atop a causeway, linking Bahrain with the Saudi Arabian mainland via the island of Umm an-Nasan was completed in December, 1986, and financed by Saudi Arabia.

The highway officially opened in 1962, and was completed in 1971.

On 1 November 2007, New Brunswick completed a 20-year effort to convert its 516 km section of the Trans-Canada highway into a four-lane freeway.

In 1912 he began promoting his dream of a transcontinental highway, and at a September 10 dinner meeting with industry friends in Indianapolis, he called for a coast-to-coast rock highway to be completed by May 1, 1915, in time for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

Multiple train and subway lines, a large highway building project, and the Tokaido Shinkansen, the fastest train in the world, were completed.

The Route 4 interchange with New Jersey Route 17 | Route 17 in Paramus, New Jersey | Paramus that underwent a $ 120 million improvement completed in 1999, as viewed from Route 17 south. Route 4 was originally legislated in the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering to run from Cape May north to the George Washington Bridge, running through Pleasantville, Toms River, Freehold, Perth Amboy, Rahway, and Paterson.

In 1807, the road was completed, and Henry Gallatin, the United States Secretary of the Treasury, reported that the alignment of the long turnpike was nearly straight except for an " obstruction " at Sand Hills, where they had to dig into the hill to create the highway.

The New Jersey Department of Transportation never followed through on this proposal, instead proposing a widening project to create a four-lane divided highway for the full length of Route 45 from Woodbury to Salem, of which only a small portion was ever completed by the 1980s, running from the border of Woodbury to the border of Mantua Township.

The highway was completed in 1945.

California's second paved highway, Pedro Mountain Road, was completed in 1914, providing another connection between Montara and San Francisco.

After the highway reached Everglades City, it came by boat from there until the causeway to Chokoloskee Island was completed in 1956.

In 1964 the first phase of Interstate 55 was completed and Dwight became an increasingly a highway oriented town.