Far from the unprofitable boat-anchor the railroad and the bankruptcy trustees said it was, the ICC found that the Pacific Extension had been returning a profit to the railroad even through 1977 and 1978, at which time traffic was severely down due to the road's problems.

This section of the Wilderness Road is now a hiking trail, including an interpretive center about the road's history located on the Tennessee side.

Congestion can also happen due to non-recurring highway incidents, such as a crash or roadworks, which may reduce the road's capacity below normal levels.

Driving practices such as tailgating and frequent lane changes can reduce a road's capacity and exacerbate jams.

* Shoulders move water away from the roadway before it can infiltrate into the road's subbase, increasing the life expectancy of the road surface.

The road's reparative features or its need for " periodic upgrade " can serve as a metaphor for the client's capacity for change and restoration ( Hanes, 1995, 1997, 2008 ).

The road's purpose is to link the town centre with the M18, from which drivers can reach the A1 and M1.

Numerous trails can be accessed along the drive, including a portion of the Appalachian Trail, which follows the road's path.

A coverage is a special kind of geographic feature, with the distinguishing characteristics that other features have one particular value associated ( such as a road number, which remains constant over all the road's extent ) whereas a coverage typically conveys different values at different locations.

With the enforced break in construction, and its new authority over the entire road, the commission began to look at ways to improve what had already been built, especially in light of the road's growing role as a regional artery.

) Currently, the road's elevation over the floor of the quarry is up to 100 feet ( 30 m ) deep on both sides of the highway, making for a unique view.

The road's long history as an unbuilt proposed road stems from the controversy that has surrounded it over the years.

They are marked with the letter D and the road's number.

The road's route between Baltimore and Cumberland continues to use the name National Pike or Baltimore National Pike today, with various portions now signed as U. S. Route 40, Alternate U. S. 40, or Maryland 144.

The town grew at this road's intersection with the Gaines Trace.

Marion County would use prisoner labor working on chain gangs, cutting tree limbs away from road's edge and repairing potholes with lime rock and clay.

* Poughquag – A hamlet east of Beekman village, running along Route 55 with that road's intersection with Route 216 its boundary with Beekman and Clove Valley.

In 2007, the National Park Service deemed the road's construction to be in violation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's general management plan, and began working with Swain County to find an alternative.

Lenoir City is traditionally spread out along US-11, west of the road's junction with US-321.

Algood is centered along State Route 42 ( Main Street ) just east of the road's two junctions with State Route 111.

Harriman's southwestern boundary, which it shares with Rockwood, is located along US-27 about a half-mile south of the road's intersection with I-40.

The word " street " is still sometimes used colloquially as a synonym for " road ", for example in connection with the ancient Watling Street, but city residents and urban planners draw a crucial modern distinction: a road's main function is transportation, while streets facilitate public interaction.

Routes 18 and 28, both north-south routes, are coextensive from this point south to the road's intersection with U. S. Route 44 in Middleborough.

Each road is given a single letter, which represents the road's category, and a subsequent number, with a length of between 1 and 4 digits.

The perimeter road's outer edge is lined with Victorian buildings constructed to around 1890, and Edwardian houses.

In the south the road's importance has been eclipsed by ( 1 ) the A90 across the Forth Road Bridge and the M90 motorway, which now link Edinburgh more directly with Perth, bypassing Stirling and Bridge of Allan as formerly important bridge points, and ( 2 ) the M9, which is now the main road between Edinburgh and Bridge of Allan.

These problems were addressed by changes that included digging deep side ditches, making the surface as solid as possible, and constructing the road with a difference in elevation ( height ) between the two edges, that difference being referred to interchangeably as the road's camber or cross slope.

The resignation of President John P. Kiley in 1957 and his replacement with the fairly inexperienced William John Quinn was a pivotal moment ; from that point onward, the road's management was fixated on merger with another railroad as the solution to the Milwaukee's problems.

Chesebrough Scout Reservation stradles the Santa Cruz-San Mateo county border, and is located nine miles ( 15 km ) south of Saratoga on California State Route 9, and two miles ( 3 km ) south of that road's intersection with California State Route 35, or Skyline Boulevard at Saratoga Gap.

This index gradient causes refraction of light rays ( at a shallow angle to the road ) from the sky, bending them into the eye of the viewer, with their apparent location being the road's surface.

The road's surface is rough, with plenty of bone-jarring corrugations, especially on the stretch of road between William Creek and Oodnadatta.

The road's toll was authorized for two years effective January 1, 1846 and specified toll rates at five dollars ( about a week's wages ) for each wagon and ten cents for each head of horse, mule, ass, or horned cattle.

As a result, the road's net revenues in the 12 months ending March 31 were 186 per cent of the annual interest payments on the turnpike bonds.

The road's engineers look for further improvement when the turnpike is extended into Boston.

Meanwhile, there appears to be enough money in the road's reserve fund to cover the interest deficiency for eight more years.

There are no communities along the road's course, apart from small, isolated structures.

Archaeologists suggested that the road's main purpose was to transport local and exotic goods inside and outside the canyon.

Roads are named using a numbering scheme similar to those used in the numbering of roads in Great Britain and Northern Ireland ; each road is assigned a letter, which represents the road's category, and a subsequent 1 – 2 digit number.

The road's initial feasibility study was planned to be presented in November 2009.

Beside the road's southern end is a statue of Edith Cavell.

Major modern highways that connect cities in populous developed and developing countries usually incorporate features intended to enhance the road's capacity, efficiency, and safety to various degrees.

Initially they were used to indicate the road's centerline.

Extension and widening of the road was fiercely opposed by environmentalists, who were concerned about the road's proximity to San Francisquito Creek, and by residents of Menlo Park, who feared that completion of the road would increase traffic congestion in their area due to the mid-Peninsula region's lack of a direct north-south arterial.

One of the road's original toll houses is preserved in La Vale, Maryland, and two others are located in Addison, Pennsylvania, and near Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

Light from the sky at a shallow angle to the road is refracted by the index gradient, making it appear as if the sky is reflected by the road's surface.

Also, the road's original route took it through the bed of present-day Sloan's Lake, then a convenient swale for road travel.

Due to the road's legal status, circulating traffic yields priority to entering vehicles.

The road's roughly radius, for example, also delimits most of the area accessible by the MBTA rapid transit system.

The perception of Route 128 running the entire length of highway from Gloucester to Braintree dates back to the road's pre-Interstate era, and has become an established part of local culture.

Others believe the name derives from Hallow and refers to the road's historic significance as part of the pilgrimage route to Walsingham.