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.

Since 1953, the southern portion of the route was widened into a divided highway and the Brielle Circle was replaced.

In the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering, Route 34 was extended north along the alignment of Route 4A to end at U. S. Route 9 in Cheesequake while the southern terminus was cut back to the Brielle Circle intersection with Route 35 and Route 70, the latter having replaced Route 34 south of this point.

* 25px25px Business U. S. Route 40 ( Brownsville )- recent designation for a two-lane section of the original path of US 40 that has been replaced by a realigned route ; highway runs in its entirety through Redstone Township and was kept as part of the federal highway system to prevent a decrease in traffic for area businesses

Later the existing highway was truncated in Bay City and M-10 replaced it on the Lodge.

In the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering, Route 44 was replaced by US 130 north of the Delaware Memorial Bridge approach in Deepwater and by Route 49 south of there.

A railroad bridge across the White River was constructed in 1883 by the Texas and St. Louis Railway ; the ferry operated until 1931 when it was replaced by a highway bridge.

U. S. Route 40 ( Baltimore National Pike ), the highway which replaced Frederick Road, forms the northern border of Catonsville, with Woodlawn to the north.

Route 31A itself was decommissioned in the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering, and replaced by the designation of Route 64.

It is the longest tunnel for highway traffic in The Netherlands and replaced the former ferry between Kruiningen and Perkpolder.

Two others were later demolished and replaced by a modern highway.

In the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering a year later, Route 35 replaced this portion of pre-1927 Route 4 as part of its route from Lakewood to South Amboy.

That year, metric signs were placed on the highway, and the mileposts were replaced with kilometre posts at the approximate locations of a historic mileage of equal value, e. g. km post 1000 was posted approximately where historical Mile 621 would have been posted.

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.

Park Avenue had formerly served as the main route from Houghton to Atlantic Mine, but this was replaced by the new route of the highway.

The railway bridge was replaced with a 2-lane highway bridge in 1962.

By the 19th century, several different single-purpose subdivisions of counties, such as poor law unions, sanitary districts, and highway districts had sprung up, which, together with the introduction of urban districts and rural districts in 1894, replaced the administrative role previously played by hundreds and reduced the role of the parishes.

The first historic Route 66 marker erected on the highway ( in Springfield, Missouri ) has been replaced and moved to the park.

Mrs. Fujii explains that they used to live in Otaru, and that their old house is now replaced by a highway.

In Arkansas, US 425 replaced the southern half of Arkansas Highway 13, which was an original state highway in the area.

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.

I-64 between Beckley and Sam Black Church, West Virginia was not completed and open to traffic until July 15, 1988 Due to its location, many miles away from I-64, US 60 still serves a large amount of traffic through the central part of the state, even though I-64 has replaced the highway for most through traffic.

This stretch of highway from Charleston to Sam Black Church is significant as it was the second to last segment of U. S. highway to be replaced by an interstate ( of the original 1960s grid plan ).