Though there is plenty of weathering steel on display in the New York area, from highway supports to the Ford Foundation headquarters, residential examples are not plentiful.
Oil and gas pipelines radiate from the city, and its international airport, major rail lines, and highways support its role as the wholesale, retail, and distribution centre of northwestern Canada.
Mr. Koizumi is also struggling to exert control over Japan's tangled network of government-sponsored corporations, which are variously used to build highways, support farmers and prop up inefficient industries.
A Department of Transportation study shows that every $1 billion invested in federal highways supports 35,000 American jobs.
Again, however, the public concluded that the nation was better served by a system of freely-accessible highways supported by tax dollars.
After years of clamoring from state transportation departments, a comprehensive highway funding bill found support form congressional leaders and is expected to pass both chambers by Friday.
Federal highway funding has traditionally been supported by a tax on gasoline, which has been fixed at 18.4 cents per gallon since 1993, despite significant increases in prices at the pump in the decades since.
Oak trees lining the street were replaced by the elevated highway's support beams.
In 1961, a caravan of three red Chevrolet Corvairs took on "the world's worst roadblock on the world's greatest highway," with support teams hacking trails and building bridges.
