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  Maryland @ AARoads.com - Interstate 895 Spur
This spur from the Harbor Tunnel Thruway is not part of Interstate 97; Interstate 97 officially ends at its interchange with Interstate 695.
Northbound Spur Interstate 895 at Exit 18A, which is the ramp to westbound Interstate 695 and Maryland 648/Baltimore-Annapolis Boulevard in Ferndale.
The only Interstate 895 Spur reassurance shield resides along the Interstate 895 southbound ramp for the spur in the city of Baltimore.
www.aaroadtrips.com /i-895s_md.html   (943 words)

  
  Pan-American Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The notable stretch that keeps the highway from being completely connected is a section of land between the Panama Canal in Panama and northwest Colombia called the DariƩn Gap, which is a 54 mile (87 km) stretch of harsh, mountainous jungle.
Highway 11 runs all the way to the border with Ecuador, where Ecuador Highway 35 runs the whole length of the country.
For tourism purposes, the Pan-American Highway is sometimes assumed to use the Alaska Highway and then run down the west coast of Canada and the United States, running east from San Diego, California and picking up the branch to Nogales, Arizona.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pan-American_Highway   (947 words)

  
 400-Series Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Highway 416 and 417 were the original routings of Highway 16 and 17 respectively, in the Ottawa area.
Highway 404 runs from north from the junction of Highway 401 and the Don Valley Parkway in Toronto and ends currently in Newmarket, with eventual plans to extend it to the northern side of Lake Simcoe.
Highway 404 is the second north-south freeway in York Region and connects the northeastern suburbs and into Toronto as the Don Valley Parkway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/400-Series_Highway   (3791 words)

  
 ENGLISH ENCYCLOPAEDIA - British Columbia provincial highway 31   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The highway first gained its number in 1973, and it is one of the few numbered highways in the province that is not fully paved.
Highway 31 has a total distance of 175 km—37 km along Kootenay Lake between Balfour (a junction with Highway 3A) and Kaslo (a junction with Highway 31A) and 138 km between Kaslo and Galena Bay, where it ends at Highway 23.
Highway 31's main spur, Highway 31A, which also opened in 1973, is 47 km long, connecting Highway 31 at Kaslo to Highway 6 at New Denver.
encyclopaedic.net /english/br/british_columbia_provincial_highway_31.html   (260 words)

  
 British Columbia provincial highway 31A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The highway first gained its number in 1973, andit is one of the few numbered highways in the province that is not fully paved.
Highway 31 has a total distance of 175km—37 km along Kootenay Lake between Balfour (a junction with Highway 3A) and Kaslo (a junctionwith Highway 31A) and 138 km between Kaslo and Galena Bay, where it ends at Highway 23.
Highway 31's main spur, Highway 31A, which also opened in 1973, is 47 km long,connecting Highway 31 at Kaslo to Highway 6 at New Denver.
www.therfcc.org /british-columbia-provincial-highway-31a-300117.html   (118 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Interstate Highway System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The interstate highway system was built to consistent design standards requiring limited access, wide lanes, paved shoulders, at least four lanes, and accommodation for speeds of up to seventy miles per hour.
I-516 is a spur highway in Savannah, and I-520 is Augusta's perimeter highway.
Since their construction in the 1960s and 1970s, Atlanta's interstate highways have helped fuel urban sprawl, first around the northern I-285 perimeter and Interstates 75 and 85 north of the city in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2423   (704 words)

  
 OKRoads -- Texas Highway Guides -- Spur 408   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Spur 408 connects Loop 12 to Interstate 20.
Spur 408 South at Spur 303 - Kiest
Spur 408 South at Interstate 20 East -
www.okroads.com /guides/tx/spur408.html   (64 words)

  
 OKHighways.com -- OK 51
At a distance of over 330 miles, the highway goes through varied landscapes, from the plains of western Oklahoma to the main street in college town Stillwater, and from the hustle and bustle of the Broken Arrow Expressway in Tulsa to the mountains and lakes of eastern Oklahoma.
The highway's first 60 miles are duplexed with U.S. After shedding that highway southeast of Seiling, OK 51 is then part of a quadplex with U.S. 281, and OK 3 for eight miles.
The highway is mostly four-lane divided between the Muskogee Turnpike and Wagoner, with the exception of a stretch between Coweta and the Verdigris River.
www.okhighways.com /ok51.html   (618 words)

  
 400-Series Highway
Highway 416 and 417 were the original routings of Highway 16 and 17 in the Ottawa area.
Highway 404 is the second north-south freeway in York Region and connects the Northeastern Suburbs with Toronto.
Instead, the Mid-Peninsula Highway was devised as a bypass of the QEW for traffic heading directly to Toronto and beyond across the Southern and Central portions of the Niagara Peninsula.
www.ukpedia.com /4/400-series-highway.html   (2112 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - List of Interstates
Primary interstates are the major interstate highways of the United States and are assigned a one or two-digit route number.
The interstate highways in Hawaii are signed with the standard Interstate shield, with the letter "H-" prefixed before the number.
The Federal Highway Administration funds four routes in Alaska and three routes in Puerto Rico under the same program as the rest of the Interstate Highway system.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/List_of_Interstates   (1088 words)

  
 SPUR - San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association - Doyle Drive Recommendations - Here's Why   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
SPUR's objectives have been to reunite the Presidio and the Palace, to lessen impacts on the Palace, to provide a magnificent Presidio entry, and to minimize traffic in the neighborhoods and the park.
SPUR suggested that the Loop Ramp option not be presented in the EIS, since it had no support and simply added complexity and confusion for the public's choices.
SPUR concludes that the slip ramp's significant impacts to the national park, and its additional cost of over $10 million, aren't worth the marginal improvement in traffic flow.
www.spur.org /doyledrive/heresWhy.shtm   (1740 words)

  
 OKHighways.com -- Past Pictures of the Week
Spur OK 51 North comes to an end at this intersection at OK 82 north of Tahlequah.
Spur OK 51 is the newest state highway in Oklahoma.
The state highway shields are the new design that will be on all state highways by the end of the year.
www.okhighways.com /potw.html   (1762 words)

  
 Highway 405 Definition / Highway 405 Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Highway 405 is a short 400-Series Highway in Ontario This article describes the Canadian province.
Highway 405 is a short spur highway leading from The Queen Elizabeth way in Niagara-on-the-Lake to the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge.
Highway 405 is the highway next to LAX, not Highway 5, take it southbound to Highway 5 southbound.
www.elresearch.com /Highway_405   (310 words)

  
 Interstate 95
Interstate 95 is an interstate highway that runs 1907 miles north and south along the eastern United States coast.
Interstate 95 is one of the most well-known and travelled highways in the Interstate system, connecting the cities along the Northeast corridor with the sunny environs of Florida.
Some highway mavens think that this will be an inadequate solution, and want the Somerset Freeway built; others want the entire main trunk of the New Jersey Turnpike designated as I-95, as that is where most of the traffic goes anyway; however, this would bypass Philadelphia.
news-server.org /i/in/interstate_95.html   (460 words)

  
 Michigan Highways: Highways 160 through 179
This highway is the second-shortest mainline state trunkline highway in Michigan, not counting Business Connections and unsigned trunklines.
M-168's historical purpose was to serve to connect the Ann Arbor Railroad Carferry docks with M-22 in Elberta.
As was the practice at the time, the State Highway Department connected the various ferry terminals with the rest of the state trunkline system using short connector highways.
www.michiganhighways.org /listings/MichHwys160-179.html   (884 words)

  
 BC Highways - Highway 99
Highway 10 provides access to Ladner to the west or behind the traveller, and also to the east towards Cloverdale, Langley, and ends at Highway 1 at 232nd Street.
Highway 99 nears the interchange with Highway 10.
The Annacis Highway was completed in 1986 and provides a second crossing of the Fraser River alternative to using the George Massey Tunnel.
modena.intergate.ca /personal/pl8s/BC99S/hwy_99S_4.htm   (984 words)

  
 Small GA Highway Change
Since GA 82 Spur was not a spur in any sense, it made much sense to change it.
That spur extended north of then SR 346 for two miles north of the road ending for no apparent reason and continuing as a Jackson County road.
This highway is very close to the decommissioned GA 346 forementioned in earlier threads.
www.usenet.com /newsgroups/misc.transport.road/msg17198.html   (208 words)

  
 Arkansas News Bureau - I-49 funding talk may spur support for other big highway project
While she didn't know how the highway commission would come up with the 20 percent match for any federal money it does receive for I-49, she did say that Arkansas has never failed to match a federal appropriation for a highway project.
Also, because the federal highway funding would be over a six-year period, the state's 20 percent match also would have to be paid back over a six-year period.
Under the state highway bill filed during the legislative session, every city with a population of 5,000 or more eventually would have four-lane access to an interstate.
arkansasnews.com /archive/2005/04/22/News/320423.html   (904 words)

  
 wiki/California State Highway 82 Definition / wiki/California State Highway 82 Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The total length of Highway 85 is 23.7 miles; the length of Highway 101 t...
The Bayshore Highway to the east was later upgraded to a freeway and was originally built as "Bypass U.S. In 1964, U.S. Highway 101 was officially moved onto the Bayshore Freeway (now Route 101), and its former alignment on El Camino Real became Route 82.
Bay Meadows Racetrack (south of Route 92California State Highway 92, or CA-92, is an east-west highway in the San Francisco Bay Area between Half Moon Bay, California near the coast (and California State Highway 1) in the west and downtown Hayward, California at its junction with California State Highway 238.
www.elresearch.com /wiki/California_State_Highway_82   (932 words)

  
 KUTV: Bush: Highway Bill Will Spur Economy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The bill signing was the second ceremony this week that has taken Bush from his Texas ranch, where he is spending about five weeks on a summer break from the White House.
Hastert has been pushing the project for years although state officials are not convinced it's the best way to ease traffic, and some critics say it will promote urban sprawl, hurt the environment and swallow up fertile farmland.
The president had threatened to veto the highway bill if it was too fat.
kutv.com /business/finance_story_222120155.html   (710 words)

  
 The Lincoln Highway
Entering California, a motorist on the Lincoln Highway crossed the Sierra Nevada through Donner Pass, named after the Donner Party, which became stranded after attempting to cross through the pass too late in the winter of 1846-1847, or could follow an alternate route that was once a pioneer stage coach route.
The Lincoln Highway was officially marked and dedicated to the memory of Abraham Lincoln on September 1, 1928.
The Lincoln Highway Association has accomplished its primary purpose, that of providing an object lesson to show the possibility in highway transportation and the importance of a unified, safe, and economical system of roads.
www.fhwa.dot.gov /infrastructure/lincoln.htm   (4230 words)

  
 SPUR - San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association
SPUR - San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association
This week the voters rejected both a replacement of the current elevated structure and the proposed underground highway.
Have you read something that other SPUR members would be interested in?
www.spur.org   (245 words)

  
 Notice to Media
Private and commercial driveways also intersect directly with the lanes of Highway 412 at various locations along the divided portion of the route but access between the lanes of Highway 412 is not permitted at those locations.
The Arkansas Highway Commission awarded a $10,944,997 contract for this project to Elmo Greer and Sons, Inc. of London, Kentucky in July 1998.
The 5.8-mile section of five-lane highway is anticipated to be available for use by traffic later this year.
www.arkansashighways.com /News/News2000/NR00-065.htm   (438 words)

  
 New Jersey Turnpike   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The New Jersey Turnpike is a toll road in the state of New Jersey and is one of the most densely traveled highways in the United States.
It is designated as unsigned New Jersey State Highway 700 from exits 1 through 6 and Interstate 95 from exits 6 through 18.
Both spurs are posted as I-95, although technically the eastern spur is I-95 as that was built first.
www.eurofreehost.com /ne/New_Jersey_Turnpike.html   (301 words)

  
 Wisconsin Highways: Milwaukee Freeways: Airport Spur Freeway
The Airport Spur Freeway, commonly just called the "Airport Spur," is a 1.89-mile long freeway in the southernmost portion of the City of Milwaukee and designated STH-119 in its entirety.
The Airport Spur Freeway is the last true freeway built in Milwaukee County and was the only one of the five freeways involved in a November 5, 1974 countywide referendum—17 miles of freeway scheduled and budgeted, but stalled by opposition—to be constructed, even though all five were approved by voters.
While officially a state trunk highway and fully a part of the state highway system, STH-119 is an unsigned route.
www.wisconsinhighways.org /milwaukee/airportspur.html   (301 words)

  
 misc.transport.road FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This is possible because in GA every US highway is usually paired with at least one signposted state route (see 7.6.4), so other examples with this many or possibly even more may exist elsewhere in the state.
A: The Federal Highway Administration (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation that administers funding for American highways.
The spur also carries US 52, which, while not signposted along most of I-465 (see 3.9.1), is in fact signed along the length of the spur.
www.roadfan.com /mtrfaq.html   (11555 words)

  
 Georgia State Routes 381 and 92 Spur
Dallas-Acworth Highway, formerly known as GA 381 is located in Paulding County.
Once a highway of major status, GA 381 fell by the wayside in 1992.
Note in 1964, on the left, that GA 92 extends into Dallas, Bobo Road is shown as a county road and GA 92 overlaps with U.S. 278 from Dallas to Hiram.
www.southeastroads.com /psr/ga381_profile.htm   (634 words)

  
 Highways in Alaska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This is one of Alaska’s spur highways, branching off from the Richardson south of Copper Center and dead-ending at the Copper River village of Chitina — a popular salmon dipnetting area.
Another spur highway, the Steese is one of only three roads in Alaska that extends to the Yukon River.
The Parks Highway, and in Fairbanks the Mitchell Expressway across the southern side of town to the north end of Richardson Highway and south end of the Steese.
www.mcgeheezone.com /adjustment/alaska/akhwys.htm   (2640 words)

  
 Georgia @ SouthEastRoads.com - Georgia 14 Spur (South Fulton Parkway)
The junction of Georgia Spur 14 with Interstate 85 & 285 occurs at the southwest corner of the Atlanta Perimeter Highway.
A complex directional cloverleaf handles the movements between the three highways in conjunction with a diamond interchange nearby at Georgia 279 (Old National Highway).
The divided highway progresses westward nine miles to Georgia 92 (Campbellton Fairburn Road), Georgia 154 (Cascade Palmetto Highway), and its end at Rivertown Road.
www.southeastroads.com /ga-014s.html   (685 words)

  
 Spur Valley Greens
Come and discover the hidden river valley embraced by the majestic Rocky Mountains; a peaceful alternative to vacationers seeking a holiday in the great outdoors.
Spur Valley Greens is a truly scenic and challenging 9 hole course, where you'll need to watch those water hazards.
Spur Valley will have no problem accommodating you and your family with the RV and camping services.
www.bcrockies.com /golf/golfcourses/spurvly.htm   (139 words)

  
 Hwy Designation File Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Auth.) Used to change a designated highway from one number to another within the same State Highway System (i.e., from SH 75 to SH 91) or to redesignate a Farm to Market Road as a Ranch to Market Road.
The purpose of the PASS is to improve mobility by developing a high level urban arterial street system to connect and serve freeways and expressways and relieve major traffic corridors.
Highway Spur (UP) Federally funded highways generally designated with its own specific number; usually begins on a U. Highway and ends on an off-system roadway.
www.dot.state.tx.us /tpp/hwy/glossary.htm   (976 words)

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