Sometimes, just a few yards from the highway, I feel like I'm in another world.
The Illinois senator says taking money from the highway fund would have negative economic effects, especially for Pennsylvanians.
The warped remains of a horse trailer lay atop a barbed-wire fence less than 50 yards from the highway.
Rader, from the highway safety group, said that with more options come more opportunities for drivers to get distracted.
But imagine if we could remove millions of cars from the highway altogether.
Scientists predicting devastation resulting from the highway hope this issue gets the international attention it needs for the Serengeti to fight an uphill battle.
The facility is made up of hundreds of buildings spread over more than 230 square miles, and bunkers dot the sagebrush-covered hills visible from the highway.
We looked at residual value predictions for 2013 models compiled by Automotive Lease Guide and personal injury claims data from the Highway Loss Data Institute.
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Our ranch house was located just north of Divide, Montana, a tiny town you could miss from the highway if you happened to adjust your radio at the wrong moment.
There had been talk from the highway people, but there wasn't much they could do about moving a graveyard, and so our cemetery remained, a fort that withstood the city's attacks.
One of them is so large it looms in the distance from the highway exit, and as you drive from Wal-Mart to the outlet mall, the landfill hulks along in the background, a constant companion.
It simply sits there in undistinguished anonymity on a low rise beneath a few scraggly trees, several miles from the nearest highway, almost invisible from the sun-baked ruts of a nearby secondary road.
Over the past several years 66 state and local agencies have signed up, from the Missouri Highway Patrol to the police department of Framingham, Massachusetts.
Fatal car accidents involving teens are down in New Jersey, to 81 in 2009 from 122 in 2006, according to the most recently available statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The Transition Roadable Aircraft, basically a flying car, recently received clearance from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to operate both on land and in the air.
In 2002 the Oklahoma Heart Hospital opened up across the highway from the spine outfit.
Hidden behind a steep ridge, it's nearly invisible from the coastal highway.
Few Syrians now dare to drive on the country's main artery, the highway from the capital north to Aleppo, a commercial hub, fearing ambushes on the road.
It could be if you drive a Dodge Charger, which tops the latest list of most stolen new cars from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The town of Cambria is a charming little hamlet tucked away from the coast highway, hilly, thick with stillness and Monterey pines, and one of our favorite places.
According to a report from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), pedestrian deaths rose slightly in the first six months of 2010, the first time that has happened in four years.
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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.
Lipitor, of course, is prescribed to prevent heart attacks, and Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) placed the billboards on the highway from the New Orleans airport to the city's convention center more than three months ago to greet doctors attending a cardiology meeting.
The last time I saw him was in Butare, Rwanda, where he won a local road race, blasting away from the peloton with his teammates down a hectic highway from the capital of Kigali.
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John Davis, chief nameplate engineer for Ford's compact cars and utility vehicles, said it's all designed to improve the driving experience: from making the 550-mile trek down Highway 99 from Sacramento to San Diego to the daily 20-mile one-way trip to work - the distance some reports suggest the average American commutes.
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The 2012 Audi A7 also offers an adaptive radar-based cruise control system that not only maintains a set speed and distance from the traffic ahead on the highway, it can operate as efficiently in stop and go traffic.
Central Seattle in the early 1960s was not a land of easy opportunity for Delno and Ida Raines, or for the six children they raised in the house that Delno built from the remains of one the highway department planned to demolish.
Some background: When the transportation act, known as TEA-21, was enacted in 1998, it tied spending levels to revenue collected by the government from highway user fees (various taxes on fuels, tires and so on) and credited to the highway account of the Highway Trust Fund.
Getting back onto the road system, drive north from Anchorage on the Glenn Highway, to the Eagle River Nature Center.
As a result, the new Sonata delivers 14% more horsepower and gets 35mpg on the highway, up from the previous model's 32mpg.
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