The South Bronx is home to miles of expressways, more than a dozen waste-transfer stations, a sewage-treatment plant and truck traffic from some of the busiest wholesale produce, meat and fish markets in the world.
The Agra-Lucknow Expressway is a more modest project compared to the Ganga Expressway, but one that is necessary for the state's growth, Mr. Yadav contended.
The president of the nonprofit aquarium group, William S. Flynn, said yesterday that Pilgrim was chosen because it had direct expressway access and more room for the aquarium and parking.
This mode isn't meant for expressway cruising, but more for stop and go traffic where the braking action will likely be performed anyway.
The route continues as a divided two-lane expressway in a more easterly, then southeasterly, direction as it crosses Tolay Creek and proceeds through the Napa Sonoma Marsh at the northern edge of San Pablo Bay.
In short, the expressways have a more robust long-term planning scheme compared to that of conventional railways.
Signs of current problems are more subtle: expressway traffic has fallen by 6percentt, and the stock market dropped.
A Times article today reported on the cancellation of two environmental impact studies in Brooklyn that were considering alternatives like tunnels or new routes for the expressway, dooming drivers to more of the same stop-and-go conditions.
The worst projects for cost overruns were Western Australia's Forrest highway between Perth and Bunbury and New South Wales' Hunter expressway which both cost more than four times the amounts initially promised.
Chicago can perhaps be thought of as a fragmented city, with the river branches, major streets, railroad embankments, and (more recently) expressways dividing it into a diversity of neighbourhoods and housing types.
