Plan Nord infrastructure development includes as a key focus extending provincial highway route 167 into the Otish Mountains, a move that is seen as a positive step for the development of mining in Quebec.
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Also, it is highly desirable to be south of the highway - the highway being Route 27, aka the Montauk Highway, because it means fewer insects and an easy walk or cycle to the beach.
The Interstate highway replacing Route 66 looped around the city.
In addition to the frontline duties in Helmand, since Christmas, B Company has been providing security for the rebuilding of the Highway 1 route, a road said to be vital to communications links across Afghanistan.
Blowing dust forced the California Highway Patrol to close state Route 14 in the high desert Antelope Valley north of Los Angeles due to low visibility.
Britain's 16th Air Assault division, which has been protecting the Rumalia oil fields, have also extended their operation northwest toward Highway 6, a major route out of Basra.
Waze thus saved drivers in Israel 5 minutes a day on average by using updates from other drivers mired in traffic to help others get off the highway and go a different route.
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The amendment would require gas stations located within a half-mile of a highway exit or hurricane evacuation route to be prewired for backup generators, which would allow electric pumps to continue to pump fuel in the case of a power outage.
The route is a major highway in Quebec and its extension was included in Plan Nord, an initiative announced last month by mining firms and the provincial government to develop gold and other mining projects in northern Quebec.
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The government is considering an alternative route for a major trade highway that would run to the south of the park.
Early Saturday morning in the hills of Puerto Rico, local chefs along a route known as the Pork Highway gathered their marinated, 150lb swines, skewered them nose to toes and hoisted them over spits for eight hours of slow roasting.
What California's highway department described as "hundreds of vehicles" got stuck on State Route 58 between Bakersfield and the community of Tehachapi on Tuesday night, California's highway department reported, and at least a few big rigs and some cars remained Wednesday morning, a highway patrol dispatcher said.
And when you inevitably do miss a turn or highway exit, they are quick to recalculate your route.
As Knief headed back to Bakersfield, her vacation done, she motored along Route 66, the same stretch of highway on which the migrants "scuttled like bugs to the westward, " as Steinbeck wrote.
The wooded area a few miles east of a highway border crossing is a well-known smuggling route for drugs and firearms, and a spokeswoman for the US attorney for the Western District of Washington told the BBC smuggling prosecutions are "a large part of our practice".
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It calculates what it deems to be your MPG on a trip, the ideal MPG based on whether you drove on the highway or city streets, the map of your route and whether or not you made any fuel-efficiency mistakes like braking too hard or accelerating too quickly.
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Heading northeast from Shimla, Highway 22 still follows the old Hindustan-Tibet trade route.
In the late 1960s, however, federal and state highway officials began a not-too-subtle plan to destroy Route 66.
One story has it that the highway between Lahore and Islamabad is longer than it should be because it takes a circuitous route across land held by Sharif cronies, who collected handsome returns for allowing the road to pass.
Davis is willing, so as soon as the Cracker Barrel Electric Highway is in place (next summer sometime), we have a date to run the route in a Leaf (or other fine electric car that the manufacturer lets us borrow).
In Canada the route along which the bodies of servicemen killed in action are brought home has been titled the Highway of Heroes.
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