The phrase "abandoned freeways" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe highways or roads that have been left unused or neglected.
Example: "The landscape was dotted with abandoned freeways, overgrown with weeds and forgotten by time."
Alternatives: "neglected highways" or "deserted roadways".
The desolate concrete channel, which looks more like an abandoned freeway than a watercourse, has starred in everything from Grease and Terminator 2 to Transformers and The Italian Job, providing a relentless gulley for nail-biting chase scenes, a raw gauntlet of urban infrastructure at its most brutal.
Chris Kennedy, the production designer, even discovered a burned-down amusement park in Lake Conneaut and an eight-mile stretch of abandoned freeway, complete with tunnel, ideal for filming the scene where the father and son who are the story's main characters are stalked by a cannibalistic gang traveling by truck.
When the 11th Street Bridge Park opens in 2019, an abandoned freeway bridge will have been transformed into Washington's first aerial park, connecting the east and west sides of the Anacostia River with recreational open space that will span the length of three football fields.
The abandoned stretch of the turnpike is the longest stretch of abandoned freeway in the United States.
The Georgia state patrol said more than 2,000 cars were abandoned along the freeways and they would be towed away on Thursday night if people did not get them.
A swath of abandoned cropland surrounded by freeways and freight tracks would seem an unlikely place to breed exotic monkeys, let alone unravel a medical mystery.
He said the CHP will be using a large number of tow trucks to remove abandoned vehicles from the freeways.
MDOT examined three options to build the freeway, but abandoned further study after June 12 , 2001 diverting remaining funds to improvement of safety along the corridor.
Between September 12 and December 22 , 1996 about 518 m of I-470 in Ohio was closed so ODOT could stabilize and repave the roadway, as the rocks forming the top of an abandoned mine underneath the freeway had become overstressed.
For such a small freeway, the Route 33 bypass has more abandoned segments than any other state freeway in New Jersey.
