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	Pacific Highway - Wikitravel
		Pacific Highway is a highway running between the Australian cities of Sydney and Brisbane, up the North Coast of New South Wales.
		As the Pacific Highway is a major road passing through a populated area, there's no need to take special precautions as you might when driving through a remote area.
		The Pacific Highway is one of Australia's most dangerous roads for accidents and fatalities: 245 people were killed on the highway between 1990 and 1995.
	wikitravel.org /en/Pacific_Highway (522 words)

	Pacific Highway - Wikitravel
		The Pacific Highway is a highway running between the Australian cities of Sydney and Brisbane, up the North Coast of New South Wales.
		As the Pacific Highway is a major road passing through a populated area, there's no need to take special precautions as you might when driving through a remote area.
		The Pacific Highway is one of Australia's most dangerous roads for accidents and fatalities: 245 people were killed on the highway between 1990 and 1995.
	www.wikitravel.org /en/Pacific_Highway (504 words)

	California's Pacific Coast Highway-Highway One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Although the construction was essential, much devastation was caused by dynamiting and later bulldozing and scars and subsequent repairs are visible.
		Cayucos, between the Pacific Ocean and the rolling hillsides of open ranchland, is a quiet getaway.
		The construction of the Pacific Coast Highway provided the means for reaching these fine sights and many others despite some time delays due to coastal weather, landslides and engineering obstacles.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /infrastructure/back0403.htm (952 words)

	Pacific Highway Alliance - Home Page
		It is undemocratic NSW people are losing their ability to have a say on NSW Planning issues that affect them directly, such as Pacific Highway Upgrades.
		As part of its strategic transport planning for freight, the NSW Government should investigate the feasibility of incorporating the Summerland Way as part of a North Coast Highway Strategy (establishing an inland freight route), and implement measures to facilitate a shift from road to rail freight (including through integrated planning for both road and rail).
		In light of the outcome of such considerations, the RTA should re-assess whether M-class, freeway-type Highway upgrades are necessary on the North Coast, and consider downgrading the scale of the upgrades to minimise the adverse impact on coastal communities."
	www.pacifichighwayalliance.org.au (577 words)

	Pacific Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		First, foremost and superseding all others, it is recommended that the Pacific Highway be converted into a dual carriageway between Newcastle and the Queensland border.
		In 2002 alone, crashes on the highway are estimated to have cost the community over $190 million.
		AusLink acknowledges that the state of the Pacific Highway is unacceptable.
	www.mynrma.com.au /saferroads/PacificHighway.asp (384 words)

	A safer Pacific Highway
		The four-lane stretches of the highway are often separated by a wide expanse and it can be confusing when the road merges and instead of two lanes going in one direction there are two lanes going in opposite directions.
		The cost of expanding the budget for improvements to the Pacific Highway can be offset by the negative cost of treating injured people and the cost of community services that become involved with those who have lost loved ones.
		It stated that the Pacific Highway needs a $4 billion upgrade, that 124 people died and 1,000 people were injured between 2000 and 2002, and that almost 70 per cent of the road does not have four-lane highway conditions.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/41906/20040511/www.cdp.org.au/fed/mr/040402f.html (1911 words)

	Pacific Coast Highway offers nearby get-away
		Highway 1 was dubbed as California's first scenic highway in 1965, then officially named as one of the first All-American Roads by the Federal Highway Administration in 1996, and with good reason.
		Highway 1 is known to take on different names in different parts of the state.
		In San Francisco, it is known as "Pacifica," but in southern California, Highway 1 is affectionately known as the "Pacific Coast Highway," or PCH.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V141/N20/04-paci.20d.html (599 words)

	Pacific Highway British Columbia
		Pacific Highway was first built as a military route along the path of an old Native American trail in 1915.
		I-5 was built as the new Pacific Highway by using parts of highway 99 or in some places, running right along side of it.
		Highway 99 was built as the north - south Pacific route in the same year as Route 66 (1929).
	www.seatoskycountry.net /seatoskya.html (771 words)

	Tofino Highway 4, British Columbia, Canada
		In the decades before Pacific Rim National Park was born in 1970, this moss-laden landscape of mist and surf was a little-known outpost, a world apart.
		Just west of Parksville on the east coast of Vancouver Island, Highway 4 (Pacific Rim Highway) begins to wind across the spine of the Vancouver Island Mountains to Port Alberni and the open ocean at Ucluelet and Tofino, all three of which are sheltered harbours.
		The magnificent Pacific Rim National Park is the only national park on Vancouver Island, providing protection for substantial rain forests and an amazing marine environment on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
	www.britishcolumbia.com /regions/towns?townID=3970 (1094 words)

	California Highways (www.cahighways.org): Routes 1 through 8
		The proposed route in Long Beach would have run to the south of Pacific Coast Highway (between Anaheim Street and 10th Street) and a portion of the Pacific Electric right-of-way; the truncated route would have then turned northeast to connect to the western stub of the Route 22 freeway (7th Street) and I-405 and I-605.
		This section was for a realignment of Route 1 from Carmel Valley Road to the Pacific Grove Interchange of Route 1 and Route 68.
		The highway was originally envisioned in 1912 as "the most scenic and picturesque mountain road in the state", but the need for a road for fire-fighting was at least equally important.
	www.cahighways.org /001-008.html (14787 words)

	Pacific Highway (Australia) - Freepedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Pacific Highway is a major transport route in eastern Australia and is part of Australia's Highway 1.
		Parts of the Pacific Highway have been upgraded to international motorway standards, while other sections remain as narrow, winding, un-divided two-lane road.
		Major towns along the Pacific Highway include Gosford, Wyong, Newcastle, Taree, Port Macquarie, Kempsey, Coffs Harbour, Grafton, Ballina and Byron Bay, all in New South Wales, and Coolangatta and the Gold Coast in Queensland.
	en.freepedia.org /Pacific_Highway_(Australia).html (108 words)

	Pacific Coast Highway - California's Route 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Quality and Quantity California's Pacific Coast Highway is one of the most unique highways in...
		Big Sur Coast Highway - Route 1 is a 30-mile segment of the PCH south of Monterey.
		Pacific Coast Scenic Byway - Oregon continues this byway into Oregon, crossing the border at Pelican State Beach.
	www.byways.org /travel/byway.html?CX_BYWAY=12744 (251 words)

	Pacific Coast Highway, British Columbia, California, Oregon and Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		However, in practice California State Highway 1 and US101, the highways which run closest to the Pacific Ocean all the way from the Mexican border to Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, are commonly referred to as the Pacific Coast Highway and that informal meaning is used here for convenience.
		California State Highway 2 over the San Gabriel Mountains is commonly (or at least, locally) known as the Angeles Crest Highway.
		California State Highway 18 through the San Bernardino National Forest is known as the Rim Of The World Drive.
	freespace.virgin.net /john.cletheroe/usa_can/scenroad/pch.htm (1929 words)

	Pacific Coast Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Easily the most spectacular highway for scenery I saw in the L.A. area was the Pacific Coast Highway.
		The Pacific coast in CA is much different with its hilly to mountainous terrain.
		Sunset Boulevard junctions the Pacific Coast Highway and runs perpendicular to the coast through the valley in the lower part of the photo.
	www.roadstothefuture.com /Pacific_Coast_Hwy.html (125 words)

	CNN - TravelGuide: Pursuits - California's Highway 1
		California's Highway 1, skirting central California's glorious wind-swept, sea-sculpted coast, is a top-notch choice.
		The twisting two-lane highway, flanked by dense pine forests on its inland side, clings tenaciously to steep rock cliffs on the shoreline side.
		The obvious benefit in driving Highway 1 from south to north is that you're on the side of the road furthest from the cliffs.
	www.cnn.com /TRAVEL/PURSUITS/GETAWAYS/9907/scenic.highway.lat (1124 words)

	Pacific Coast Highway 1 Motorcycle Ride, Northern California - Photos
		A bit of caution to all of you who like to pass on the double yellow- for its duration, Highway 1 is known for coppers patrolling this main stretch of road.
		The Pacific Coast Highway is a virtual oasis separate from the rest of California.
		Pacific Ocean to Highway 101 - Freshly paved in 2004
	www.pashnit.com /roads/cal/Highway1toLeggit.htm (1924 words)

	Pacific Coast Highway - California's Route 1 - Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		California's Pacific Coast Highway is one of the most unique highways in America, and also one of the longest.
		However, the actual Pacific Coast Highway is generally believed to begin as Route 1 at San Juan Capistrano South of Los Angeles, and end where Route 1 merges with Highway 101 at Leggett South of Eureka.
		The highway is not yet an official California Dedicated Scenic Highway, but is eligible.
	www.byways.org /browse/byways/12744/overview.html (232 words)

	PTUA: Media Release - Threat to Pacific Highway Funding
		The upgrade of the Pacific Highway is threatened by a controversial, two-billion-dollar freeway project in Melbourne, a transport lobby group has claimed.
		PTUA Secretary Vaughan Williams said that the Pacific Highway was currently the main beneficiary of the RONI scheme and its upgrade could be delayed or even abandoned if funds were diverted to freeways in Melbourne.
		However, most traffic continued to use the Pacific Highway, as was tragically illustrated in the Grafton and Kempsey bus accidents.
	www.ptua.org.au /media/2001/press44.shtml (743 words)

	Roads of National Importance Pacific Highway Upgrading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Pacific Highway carries 5.4 million vehicles a year, making it one of Australia's most heavily used interstate road corridor by all classes of vehicles.
		The Pacific Highway is a State Highway and the principal financial responsibility of the New South Wales Government in that state and the Queensland Government's responsibility on the Brisbane-Gold Coast section.
		Nearly one quarter of all crashes and 17.4 per cent of fatalities on the highway were as a result of a vehicle leaving the road.
	www.dotrs.gov.au /transprog/road/pac_hwy (1764 words)

	Midway/Pacific Highway Corridor \| Planning Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In 1850, approximately 687 acres of land in the Middledtown area (including Pacific Highway), located between the Old Town site and New Town (Centre City), was conveyed to a group of ten early pioneers by Joshua Bean, the City’s first mayor.
		In the 1950s the Pacific Highway area was the location of some of the aircraft industry associated with Lindbergh Field.
		The Midway Pacific Highway Corridor Community Plan and Local Coastal Program Land Use Plan was adopted May 28, 1991 by the San Diego City Council and amended by the San Diego City Council on January 19, 1999.
	www.sandiego.gov /planning/profiles/midway.shtml (985 words)

	Highway 1 - Motorcycle Ride Big Sur Pacific Coast Highway, California
		Another parallel ride to Highway 1 in-between Paso Robles and King City is the wondrous Highway G14.
		Highway 58 heads back into the central valley (along with Highway 166 past the Song Dog Ranch) from San Luis Obispo- or loops around to Hwy 33.
		One alternative is to head inland on Highway 166 and ride Tepusquet Road, then Foxen Canyon Road on over to Solvang.
	www.pashnit.com /roads/cal/Hwy1BigSur.htm (1479 words)

	Pacific Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Sections of the highway have been upgraded, and duplicated to bypass several towns/cities - the intent is to have the whole highway duplicated to the QLD border, so eventually all towns will be bypassed.
		North of Ballina the Pacific Highway winds it way through the mountain ranges to Brunswick Heads of which it then follows the new section of freeway through to Tweed Heads and the QLD border.
		The Pacific Highway as it approaches the Byron Bay exit (2002).
	www.hotkey.net.au /~krool/photos/nsw/pacifichwy.htm (364 words)

	US-CA/OR: Pacific Coast Highway
		Starting somewhere between the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego in the south, the highway runs all the way upto about 40 km into the state of Washington in the north, bordering the pacific ocean over majority of its length.
		A day's drive from the wineries along the pacific coast would bring you to the heart of redwood forests, which is a nice place to
		The pacific coast drive can take anywhere between a week to a score days depending on the number of days you would like to spend at the various points of interests en route.
	www.travel-notes.org /pch.html (687 words)

	kingcountyjournal.com - Gary Leon Ridgway timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The man she left with is a white male, late 20s to early 30s, with brown hair and a wispy mustache.
		These include Highway 18 and Interstate 90, the middle fork of the Snoqualmie River near North Bend, the Greenwater area near Enumclaw and Star Lake near Kent where the remains of six victims were found.
		16 -- Ridgway is arrested in SeaTac for loitering for the purpose of prostitution in the 16500 block of Pacific Highway South.
	www.kingcountyjournal.com /sited/story/html/148308 (5210 words)

	The Pacific Higway Voted Region's Worst Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Over the past ten years the Pacific Highway has averaged around 1,000 crashes a year — almost three a day — producing around 680 injuries and 43 deaths on average each year.
		Of the 13,000 replies, 1,335 identified the Pacific Highway as a dangerous stretch of road, coming second only to the Princes Highway.
		Survey respondents named sections throughout the Pacific Highway and sections of the Bruxner Highway between Ballina and Lismore.
	www.mynrma.com.au /saferroads/mediareleases_pacifichwyregionsworstrd_040831.asp (429 words)

	Highway 99 - The Pacific Highway
		Although 66 was to become the 'movie star' of the 1926 highway family, 99 had just as an important role in the growth and development of the west coast.
		For example, in many locales in the Northwest, it is called by the familiar moniker of the Pacific highway (In Washington, it overlaid not only the Pacific highway, but parts of the Evergreen and Pioneer highways as well).
		South of Tacoma and Olympia, the old highway wandered southward to eventually span the mighty Columbia river between Vancouver, WA.
	www.bygonebyways.com /Highway%2099.htm (613 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Public Buildings Service; Record of Decision; Proposed Expansion Pacific Highway Port of Entry, ...
		My decision is based upon the following factors: The Pacific Highway POE is the largest commercial truck crossing port in Washington state, and is the U.S. Customs headquarters for Western Whatcom County, Washington and ports.
		Serving a major arterial highway, the POE also processes a significant amount of auto traffic as well as a majority of the state's bus traffic.
		The absence of adequate facilities at Pacific Highway and associated delays may ultimately force truck traffic to utilize smaller border crossings not located along a major state highway.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1997/January/Day-09/pr-17307.html (1403 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Pacific Coast Highway: 2,066 Miles from Olympic to Tijuana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Route 101, the Pacific Coast Highway, commissioned in 1926, follows the path taken by the first Spanish explorers of the West Coast and incorporates El Camino Real, the historic thoroughfare built to link California's 21 missions.
		A prologue, outlining the Pacific Coast Highway's pre-twentieth-century history, is followed by chapters giving a comprehensive guide to each section of the road (traveling north-south).
		Most drivers planning their trip down the Pacific Coast are likely to begin their preparations by consulting a road atlas-and may be somewhat confused by what they see there.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0760314632?v=glance (628 words)

	dowseworld: Pacific Highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Lunch at Montage Laguna Beach which was superb with view over Pacific - left camera in the car but when we got home we took this wonderful pic of a beached whale - more in photo album fo Lagunal Niguel.
		Union Pacific, which normally operates about 80 freight trains in and out of the Los Angeles Basin every day, said mudslides and flooding had blocked most of its routes to Southern California, forcing the company to halt all rail traffic to and from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
		Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner service was canceled at least until Thursday, when Union Pacific may reopen its tracks, closed since Sunday because of a sinkhole near Gaviota.
	www.dowseworld.com /pacific_highway (4398 words)

	Historic US Highways in Washington: US-99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The federal government built the Pacific Highway over part of the old road in 1915, at a time before route numbers when America was crisscrossed by "auto trails" with names like the Lincoln Highway, the Dixie Highway, and the National Old Trails Road.
		The Pacific Highway stretched from the Canadian border at Blaine, Washington, to the Mexican border at Calexico, California, hitting most of the major cities along the way, and quickly became the West Coast's automotive travel backbone.
		In 1926, when the foundation of the U.S. Highway System spelled death for the quaintly named auto trails, the Pacific Highway got a new identity: from Blaine to Los Angeles, it would be known as US Highway 99.
	www.phenry.org /wsh/oldus/oldus99.html (558 words)

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