I recognize every building from the freeway -- the banks, the hospitals, the hotels and apartment complexes, all of it.
After traffic issues during the 2008 reconstruction work on the Wheeling Tunnel, local politicians suggested closing the twin tunnels altogether and building the freeway over Wheeling Hill instead.
Much of the work in building the freeway was completed during the 1970s, with US 48 being opened from Vocke Road in LaVale to Maryland Route 36 in Frostburg on October 12, 1973, and to Maryland Route 546 on November 1 , 1974
Oregón's wake was held two days later, at Santana Funeral Directors, a squat red brick building on the service entrance to one of Houston's busiest freeways.
"I saw the fire when I was passing on the freeway last night, and I didn't know if it was my building on fire," he said. . Lee Leon, 50, a custodian at the Native American Health Center, got a call at 2 a.m. from a friend who also was driving on the freeway and saw the fire.
"There's a woman walking on the freeway, going into the freeway, just walking barefooted," one woman said.
