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.

A few miles of State Road 48 ( SR 48 ) were also recently upgraded to a four-lane highway just west of Bloomington.

The Indiana Department of Transportation, as part of the Major Moves transportation program, recently ( 2011 ) completed a four-lane, limited access highway by-pass that carries U. S. Highway 231 around the west side of Dale.

Over 60 trains pass through the town daily and the railroad recently completed an underpass which redirects the tracks below US-36, rather than crossing the highway and backing up traffic.

The highway was recently expanded, so that rather than the highway portion ending at Route 58 ( the other main route ), whose right-of-way extends into Carver to a few miles after the Carver / Wareham town line.

Today, the site of the battle houses a small visitor center and the recently authorized River Raisin National Battlefield Park. George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument | Custer ’ s statue, unveiled in 1910, now sits at the corner of Elm Street and M-125 ( Michigan highway ) | Monroe Street.

Access roads to Roermond have been upgraded recently providing direct access to the Dutch and German highway network.

Although the Pacific Highway cuts through the centre of the city, much attention has recently been focused on obtaining state government commitment to determining the routes of proposed highway deviations at a number of places including Bonville, the North Boambee Valley to the west of Coffs Harbour and north of Arrawarra to Wells Crossing.

The film includes a rather novel scene filmed ' on ' the recently completed San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, wherein Nick & Nora Charles ', while driving east-bound on the upper deck ( disallowed when the bridge was ' reconfigured ' in 1962 ) are stopped on the bridge ( for speeding, by a highway patrolman ) while traffic whizzes by, which would be unheard of in recent history.

In 1960 the speed limit in the park had been raised from 20 to 30 miles an hour and there were concerns that the roads in the park would be assigned to the main highway system as had recently happened in parts of Hyde Park.

The highway was recently expanded to four lanes, with the new highway being routed to the north of the village.

This highway was known to be one of the deadliest highways in America until recently.

Until recently, all bridges on the network had at each end a small plaque showing the distance from the start of the highway, usually in the form of a number in kilometres, an oblique stroke, and a further number in kilometres, accurate to the nearest 10 metres.

Many 400-series highways have also recently had gates installed at entrance ramps, along with special gated ramps located near overpasses, allowing access to the highway to be easily closed in case of emergency or road work.

It is only signed as Route 175 ( the A-973 designation is recently put on signals like the highway ending sign ).

As recently as the early 1960s, 75 % of its annual town budget was allocated to snow removal, as only a mile and a half of the town's roads are state highway.

At a junction with US 195, US 95 proceeds north to Moscow as a recently completed divided highway.

Wolf Creek Pass, once a two-lane road winding through the San Juan Mountains between South Fork, Colorado and Pagosa Springs, has recently been expanded into a multi-lane highway, greatly increasing the traffic capacity of the pass and making it more navigable in bad weather.

The last stretches of the highway overlaid with bricks, through downtown Pratt and Hoisington, were recently resurfaced with concrete.

Route 11 turns to the right and intersects with Louisiana Highway 41 Spur, an auxiliary route of the highway that intersected recently in the community of Pearl River.

Major upgrades have taken place throughout much of Indiana where US 24 comprises most of a High Priority Corridor and has been recently upgraded from a two-lane highway to a four-lane at-grade expressway from Logansport to Fort Wayne.

None of the Sturt Highway was constructed as dual-carriageway, however work was recently completed to upgrade the highway to freeway standards between the Gawler Bypass and Greenock in the Barossa Valley.

Luzhkov had recently criticised Medvedev's decision to halt the construction of a new highway through the Khimki Forest amid protests by environmentalists.