As the convoy growled down Highway One, the national ring road that encircles the whole country, the turret machine-gunner rotated left and right, scanning the roadside.
Extension of the highway was one of the major infrastructure projects planned between 2011 and 2016.
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Ripping out another highway is one proposal on the table -- something most cities could not fathom.
At the peak of the pass, some 4, 733m, the Karakoram Highway becomes one of the highest public roads in the world.
Yet off the highway, one quickly passes through cinderblock villages through open fields and into El Yunque, the tropical forest that dominates the eastern part of the island.
There's only one highway that connects Costa Rica and Nicaragua (I walked across it, shown above), but you can totally swim from one country to the other if you aren't afraid of circumventing authority.
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One Nevada Highway Patrol sergeant recalled a similarly long closure after the 1996 drive-by slaying of rapper Tupac Shakur.
The highway was reduced to one lane for both inbound and outbound ambulances, which had to contend with a downhill grade and winding roads.
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.
If 90% of cars on one stretch of highway have their wipers on full blast, they could know it's raining heavily.
The Civil Guard radar trap consisted of two sets of vehicles, one on the highway with a radar camera, which Benzema passed quickly, and a second down the road.
According to the National Highway Safety Administration, nearly one put of every 100 motorists is either texting, emailing, surfing the Web or otherwise using a handheld electronic device at any given time.
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In addition to the Plumas County Sheriff's Department staff, the local community of 1, 700 residents has 11 California Highway Patrol officers, or about one trooper for every 150 residents.
In an unrelated incident last month, a bus carrying the University of Maine women's basketball team crashed on a highway near Boston, but no one was killed, CNN affiliate WCVB reported.
And it's one of 8, 000 highway projects that have been approved under the Recovery Act across this country -- nearly 5, 000 of which are already under construction.
Of course our governors can encourage or mandate certain activities or stimulate or direct particular undertakings--land for railroad building in the 19th century, highway construction and space exploration in this one--but that's a far cry from directing the whole economy.
Video on CNN affiliate WFTS's website showed white smoke rising near the highway -- as throngs of vehicles in one direction sat seemingly at a standstill -- and mingled with puffs of clouds on an otherwise picture-perfect spring day.
In western Wisconsin, an articulated lorry slid off a snow-covered highway and into the Red Cedar River, killing one person.
By 1776, the Atlantic Ocean had become what one historian has called "an information highway" across which poured books, magazines, newspapers and copies of the debates in Parliament.
Mendes Junior projects in Iraq included the constructions of the Baghdad-Al Qaim-Akashat railway, the Iraq Expressway Number One (the largest controlled-access highway in the Middle East) and a pumping station on the Euphrates River.
The billboards on highway 101 between San Francisco and Silicon Valley touting startups no one has heard of.
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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, speeding has been found to be one of the highest contributing factors in traffic crashes.
More recently, Sir Harry, a committed Christian, presented the Sunday night religious programme Highway on ITV as well as Songs of Praise on BBC One.
The car was rock solid and smooth sailing at highway speeds, with the ability to leap fairly athletically from one lane to another when called upon.
With a major two-lane highway running through it, Mikumi National Park might be one of the only places in the world to offer views of wild animals and grassy savannahs for the price of a bus ticket.
Once inside the southern Tanzania park, the highway cannot be seen or heard, but it makes Mikumi one of the most accessible places in Tanzania to see lions, buffalo, hippopotamus, gazelles, elands, warthogs and yellow baboons (not to mention more than 400 species of birds).
Going one step further, the Panamera S gets the same highway mileage and nearly the same city mileage.
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.
This summer, New York's Department of Transportation will begin one of 19 pilot projects funded nationwide by the Federal Highway Administration to rebuild infrastructure to withstand the increasing number of severe weather events expected with climate change.
Ian Turner, the council's head of highway operations, said water levels were still "too high" at one end of the culvert.
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