The gardens and playgrounds have been replaced by skips and abandoned cars, and the Presleys' old building is now overshadowed by a freeway overpass that blocks out the sunsets on the Mississippi.

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In 1983 this magazine had a story about telecommuting, illustrated by a vacant freeway.

FORBES: The Spokane Arb Play

He cited a 1994 feasibility study by WS Atkins, a U.K. engineering firm, which concluded that a freeway would only shift bottlenecks around rather than increase the city's traffic carrying capacity.

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I-69, the proposed Montreal-Mexico City freeway, through the Valley, a case strengthened by the fact that the region remains the largest urban area in the United States without an interstate highway.

ECONOMIST: One river, one country

Super Cruise is designed to ease the driver's workload on the freeway, in both bumper-to-bumper traffic and on long road trips by relying on a fusion of radar, ultrasonic sensors, cameras and GPS map data.

ENGADGET: Cadillac road tests self-driving Super Cruise tech, could hit highways by mid-decade