The phrase "abandoned highways" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe roads or routes that are no longer in use or maintained, often evoking a sense of desolation or neglect.
Example: "As we drove through the countryside, we stumbled upon a series of abandoned highways, overgrown with weeds and forgotten by time."
Alternatives: "neglected roads" or "deserted highways".
News of the Bike Pike has spread, and already on weekends as many as 150 cyclists ride the abandoned highway.
In the case of an abandoned highway project, the town receives 45percentt of the property taxes it would normally have received from the houses that were there, Mr. LaBella said.
The trickle of blood made me laugh, because it seemed so lo-fi for a show with such amazing production values that it can light a giant log jam on fire on an abandoned highway in Georgia.
In June , 2012 Imperial abandoned Highway 12 entirely and settled on a contingency plan, "at considerable cost and complexity," Rolheiser told me: the company would disassemble the Alberta-bound mega-loads (some already parked in Lewiston, others still in Korea and Washington State) and ship them via interstates to Fort McMurray.
The community of Squamish would be abandoned, Highway 99 would be out of service and destroyed, and traffic adjacent to Vancouver, Pemberton and Whistler would remain forced to travel along a route to the east that is more lengthy than Highway 99.
The highway that was to become SR 40 followed most of its present alignment from Folkston to the Charlton Camden county line in 1919 but had a significantly different route in western Camden County, following what are now Colerain Road, Forestry Road, Marr Cemetery Road, Oakhill Church Road, Willies Loop, Old Folkston Road, Arizona Avenue, and several sections of abandoned highway.
From the breakdown lane of an abandoned highway, an introspective biker in a tactical suit looks across a cascading urban sprawl in one of the many enrapturing landscapes of Babiru, a speculative post-apocalyptic universe created by digital artists Nivanh Chanthara and Fred Rambaud.
Thousands of people lost power; grocery-store shelves were stripped bare; cars were abandoned on highways; even the federal government shut down.
Each of his extraordinarily lucid landscape photographs is an antipicturesque collision between nature and abandoned buildings, highways, billboards and other junk products of modern civilization.
Airports have closed, trains have halted in midtrip, cars have been abandoned on highways and several dozen people from Poland to Britain have died of exposure so far, the authorities say.
