Furthermore, pavement on land creates "expressways" for oil and other pollutants to run into the ocean.
We now have 3, 500 kilometers of expressways, all with fiber-optic lines that are the backbone of our communications.
The quake triggered some landslides, stranded people on overnight trains, cut off water supplies and shut down some expressways.
Lorry drivers often prefer to use the old roads that run parallel to the expressways in order to save money.
Toyota's solution is to only provide updates to areas relevant to the user: where they live, where they're going and commonly used expressways.
We could start the transition today, using existing low-cost all-electronic tolling (transponders and license-plate imaging) on all limited-access highways, such as Interstates and expressways.
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More lanes followed on the Gowanus and Staten Island Expressways, and they are currently being extended on both roadways, with the lanes expected to reach Victory Boulevard in 2015.
The Lopezes control and run Meralco, the electricity distribution monopoly on Luzon island (other interests: the ABS-CBN broadcasting network, the country's largest, as well as toll expressways and water services).
Illinois Department of Transportation spokesman Mike Claffey said in an email that traffic was lighter than normal on Chicago expressways Tuesday afternoon, an indication that many people took public transportation instead of cars.
Likewise, the Chicago expressways allow people, like myself, who live fifty miles outside of the city to drive into the city for theater, museums, music and dance, major league sporting events, and Christmas shopping.
Advertising engagement met advertising disruption head-on when an additional 40 minutes was added to what is normally a lengthy commute on the Kennedy and Edens expressways, and the experience was compared to a bad road-construction project.
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Moroun and his top aide, Dan Stamper, were jailed for two days in January after a judge found them in contempt for failing to comply with court-ordered completion of ramps linking the existing bridge to expressways.
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Seeing expanding transportation by truck and car as its next opportunity to shape the city, the federal government pushed concrete expressways through most large towns destroying parks, neighborhoods and monuments, ignoring the aesthetic visions that had been the source of municipal pride for generations.
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