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| | Getting around: Nation's interstates celebrate 50th birthday this week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Some argue that an underlying motive was to improve the lot of oil, automobile and road-building interests, and that the interstates spelled the demise of passenger railroads and strong, diverse urban centers. |
 | | Interstate 375 in Detroit, at 1.15 miles, is shortest. |
 | | At 53 miles, Interstate 99 between Beford and Bald Eagle, Blair County, and still being built north to I-80, is the third-shortest two-digit interstate. |
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