Then Gail introduced me to this cat named "Freeway" and I instantly recognized the power of living with hope.
Originally, the route of Interstate 96 from the east end of the existing freeway in Farmington through Detroit, named the Jeffries Freeway (commonly referred to as simply "the Jeffries"), was to closely parallel Grand River Avenue (formerly US 16).
Five of the styles are named after L.A. freeways (a sixth, called L.A. Rays, is a revival of a once-defunct brand); each takes a design cue from classic frames: The 15 is based on surfer shades from the 1950s; the 10 (above) is a nod to the '90s Wayfarer.
But when she and her hesitant daughter Grace (Elisabeth Moss) rescue a dog from beside an interstate, she ignores her stuffy husband's complaints and keeps the dog, naming it Freeway.
John Carpenter, president of Texas Power & Light – there's a freeway named after him in Dallas – so loathed Sam Rayburn that he offered to spend any amount of money to defeat him in the next election.
The segment from Livonia east to I-275 is the Jeffries Freeway, named for a former mayor of Detroit, Edward Jeffries.
In 1954, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission planned a freeway named Woodhaven Road to run from I-95 in Bensalem Township northwest to Lower Moreland Township, passing through Northeast Philadelphia.
The Wayne County section of I-96 is named the Jeffries Freeway from its eastern terminus to the junction with I-275 and M-14.
After exiting the canyon, the freeway enters the city of Auburn and intersects West Valley Highway, signed as SR 181 until 1991, and SR 167, named the Valley Freeway, in a complex hybrid partial cloverleaf and diamond interchange.
Gateway Freeway SR 24, or the Gateway Freeway, is a freeway in southeast Mesa near the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (which the freeway was named after).
