When the characters Dean Moriarty, Marylou and Ed Dunkel leave Denver, Kerouac writes that they " roared east along Colfax and out to the Kansas plains " — this was before the construction of Interstate 70.

When the Interstate Highway system was funded, and sometimes locally as some cities, counties or states improved their own local highway networks, stretches of road containing a lot of turns, frequent stops ( traffic signals ), and-or narrow hard to widen ways and roadbeds, stretches of local roads became bypassed and locally named Old Lincoln Highway.

When Interstate 70 was built in the early 1970s, the community's major shopping area became centered near the interchange south of the city.

When the entire route is complete, including the new extension of the U. S. 60 by-pass around Owensboro ( with which U. S. 231 is concurrent ), Rockport will have non-stop access to Nashville, Tennessee and points south via the William H. Natcher Parkway and Interstate 65.

When a new post office opened at 16 Main Street in Brewster on July 17, 1966, even before Interstate 84 and Interstate 684 were constructed, it was named Brewster and given the zip code 10509.

When the base closed and Interstate 40 bypassed Foss the town declined further.

When traveling west on Interstate 80, East Stroudsburg is the second town from the NJ-PA border on exit 308.

When the closure of the mines and the completion of Interstate 15 threatened economic depression in the early 1980s, determined Parowan citizens pulled together to develop an economic plan of action to keep the community viable.

* In a 2007 television episode of The Sopranos, titled Remember When, the characters Tony Soprano and Paulie Walnuts pull off of Interstate 95 on their way to Miami to visit a hotel brothel they remember patronizing years past in Culpeper.

When first proposed, Route 90 was planned to extend farther south to Route 73 in Mount Laurel, intersecting Interstate 295 and the New Jersey Turnpike.

When first proposed, it was to extend to Interstate 295, the New Jersey Turnpike and Route 73 in Mount Laurel.

When Wilson became governor of New Jersey, he appointed Ford Commissioner of Banking and Insurance ; after Wilson became president, Ford was sent to the Philippines on a special mission, reporting directly to the president, and toward the end of Wilson's presidency Ford was named to a position on the Interstate Commerce Commission.

When Interstate 287 was extended from Montville to the New York border in 1993, it took over the alignment of Route 208 between U. S. Route 202 and the current northern terminus of Route 208.

When accountants wanted to inspect ZZZZ Best's operations, Minkow borrowed fake offices for a tour of " Interstate Appraisal Services " and used an incomplete building to present a fake restoration job.

When the section of Interstate 35 in San Antonio, Texas was built, it was named the Pan Am Expressway, as it lies along this route.

When James Drake visited the United States in 1962, his experience with the Interstate Highway system led him to conclude that the Merseyside Expressway, planned to run only between Liverpool and the M6, would need extending to the Stretford-Eccles Bypass, creating a continuous motorway between Liverpool and Ferrybridge ( a link between Ferrybridge and Hull was not considered until 1964 ).

When the Interstate Commerce Commission refuses permission for the planned merger of the railroad subsidiaries as the Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railroad SPSF shortens its name to Santa Fe Pacific Corporation and puts the SP railroad up for sale while retaining the non-rail assets of the Southern Pacific Company.

When I-82 was approved in 1956, the Tri-Cities wanted an Interstate, since Interstate 82 bypassed the cities.

When Interstate 80N became Interstate 84, the road became Business Loop I-84 through Boise.

When the Interstate highway system was built, Interstate 35 paralleled the Dallas / Fort Worth split with routes I-35E through Dallas ( along US 77 ) and I-35W through Fort Worth ( along US 377 and US 81 ).

When opened it controlled 280 multiple-aspect signals and 243 motor-worked points on of routes around Bristol, the largest area controlled by a single signal box on British Rail at the time.

When finished, the hotel building, with a height of 280 meters, will become the tallest building in Zhengzhou.

When he undertook the management of the parish of St John's, the poor of the parish cost the city £ 1400 per annum, and in four years, by the adoption of his method, the pauper expenditure was reduced to £ 280 per annum.

When Wu was finally conquered by Jin in 280, some 50, 000 vessels-some of which were for transport-were seized.

When applied to human gestation length, the curve's center is at 280 days ( 40 weeks ) past LMP.

When he eventually turned pro, he stood 6 feet 8 inches ( 2. 03 m ) and weighed over 280 pounds ( 127 kilograms ).

When it was completed in 1911, Roosevelt Dam was the tallest masonry dam in the world at 280 feet ( 85 m ).

When the Himyarite Kingdom conquered the Sabeans in AD 280 they probably also took control of Najran.

When Lutèce was sacked during the barbaric invasions of 280 A. D., some of the structure's stone work was carted off to reinforce the city's defences around the Île de la Cité.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.