To highway enthusiasts like Richard Moeur, who runs a Web site devoted to traffic signs, the existing highway typeface has become evocative of the wonder of the open road.
At the same time that the President-elect has said that he wants to promote "green" economic growth, much perhaps most of the stimulus package is likely to be devoted to projects, like highway expansion, that will have precisely the opposite effect.
Thanks to irresponsible politicians devoted to developers, the highway lobby, industry and agribusiness -- from Atlanta's Mayor Shirley Franklin to Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, Senators Chambliss and Isaakson and all the counties, towns and municipalities stacked up between them -- I never leave our Atlanta home unless I've check the ozone and microparticulates (2.5 microns) "out there".
Construction added 5,000 jobs, though mostly because of gains in heavy and civil engineering, probably helped by the remaining federal stimulus dollars devoted to infrastructure projects like highways.
In many ways, he is a typical 20-something: He works long hours in an overstuffed cubicle, is addicted to reality TV and is the proud parent of a personal World Wide Web page rife with eccentric links, like sites devoted to the Interstate System of highways.
Instead, much of the so-called recovery aid was devoted to costly current programs, like highway building and H.I.V. prevention, and to new projects far outside the disaster zone, like an industrial park in the north and a teaching hospital in the central plateau.
His restlessness led him to travel around the country and to Mexico, subsequently yielding a sizable body of paintings devoted to people on trains and highways, at gas stations and hotels.
The bank has pledged to shift resources it once devoted to large-scale projects like dams and highways to programs that directly help poor people.
Almost one third of it is devoted to an epic chase scene involving Max, a semi-trailer and an army of highway ruffians.
SIGN LANGUAGE From Franklin Stones to Interstate Shields AMERICA'S highway signs have their own coterie of buffs, some of whom maintain extensive Web sites devoted to sign insights.
