A section of the highway was closed for 17 hours.
The section of the highway near the town has been closed for 18 days because of the heavy fighting.
They stop for lunch at Mom's Colonial Diner, a greasy-spoon cafe along a honky-tonk section of the highway.
Paisas only go down to the river in December, when a section of the highway is closed for people to walk and enjoy enormous arrays of Christmas lights.
They were assigned a 72-mile section of the highway to protect at night between Al Diwaniya in Nasiriya in southern Iraq, for example.
A Harris County police officer who had parked on the side of Interstate 10 told me that the situation in that section of the highway was worsening.
"Obviously, we feel it could compromise the strength of that section of the highway," Gene Blaum, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, told the Associated Press.
Correction: December 30, 2000, Saturday A picture caption yesterday about the growth of congestion on Interstate 95 misidentified the section of the highway shown.
The proposal to rename a 5km section of the highway – previously called Table Bay Boulevard – after him was put forward by a group of 27 signatories, including fellow Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and DA leader Helen Zille.
Speeds at various locations were found to be dependent on some combinations of curve length, curvature and speed in the immediately preceding section of the highway.
M-26 previously reached the Wisconsin border, but a section of the highway became US 45.
