The 1-million-square-foot Seaman's Furniture warehouse, built four years ago and visible from the turnpike near where it intersects with the east-wide Interstate 195, was one of the first buildings to go up.
It is also something of a puzzle: highway bills normally sail through Congress, since no one wants to antagonise drivers, and most members are eager to take credit for wider interstate roads and spiffy new bridges in their districts.The crux of the problem, as always, is money, or rather the lack of it.
But 55 ona wide-open interstate in a monster built to cruise at 80 is like flying in outer space.
Under pressure from the Bush administration to create majority-black districts in 1992, the General Assembly concocted a 165-mile-long district that connected black population centers in Charlotte, Greensboro and Durham with a tether that was often no wider than Interstate 85.
The project grew to consist of four "priority segments:" new multimodal toll roads up to 1,200 feet wide paralleling Interstates 35 and 37 from Denison in North Texas to the Rio Grande Valley; a proposed I-69 from Texarkana to Houston and Laredo; I-45 from Dallas-Fort Worth to Houston; and I-10 from El Paso to Orange on the Louisiana border.
They argue that the Supreme Court has held that the 21st Amendment gives states wide latitude in regulating interstate sales of liquor.
Interstate 78, wide and usually fast, and Route 22, a six-lane thoroughfare that includes almost every chain store imaginable, run east and west and divide the township roughly into thirds.
Mr. Yao, 63, lost part of each of his arms while trying to shield his head in the March 12 , 2011 crash of a World Wide Travel bus on Interstate 95 that killed 15 passengers, and left survivors like him severely wounded, physically and emotionally.
Up there on the Theodul glacier, powder days are possible, sure, but best to come slathered in sunscreen and ready for fast, carving runs down Interstate-wide beginner and intermediate slopes that plummet as much as 3,200 vertical feet.
"There's lots of Interstates going through wide open spaces".
Interstates and other wide highways are typically not an option, in part because overpasses are too low.
