In Houston, where the oil bust of the mid-1980s led to see-through buildings devoid of tenants, brokers are wary of space proliferating in the "energy corridor, " running along Interstate 10 from western Houston toward the suburb of Katy.

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Nuevo Laredo is close to the Interstate 35 corridor, and Juarez has easy access to I-10, a major east-west interstate, and I-25, which runs north to Denver, Colorado.

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According to stats from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the I-95 corridor between the southeast and New England includes five of the 10 U.S. states carrying the highest fines for speeding--Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland and New Hampshire.

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The Triumph is expected to navigate the "safety fairway, " or the corridor into Mobile Bay, late Wednesday night, bringing it, around 10 a.m.

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