Late last year, Virginia raised the speed limit on its rural interstates to 70 mph.
Heavy volume was also reported on Interstates 65 and 59 as Mississippi evacuees streamed north.
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Cars also clogged Interstates 55 and 59 heading north out of eastern Louisiana.
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It is also convenient to several major highways, including Interstates 95 and 80.
Interstates and roadways already packed with rush-hour traffic quickly became parking lots as people tried to escape the oncoming storm.
Jindal said the state planned to begin "contraflow" procedures, opening both sides of interstates to outgoing traffic only, at 4 a.m.
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Even trucks repay, via fuel and user taxes, most -- CK arguably, all -- the damage they do to the Interstates.
Even trucks repay, via fuel and user taxes, most -- arguably, all -- of the damage they do to the Interstates.
More than 100 billboards featuring her picture and information about the case were set up along interstates in Texas and other states.
We loved taking the back roads instead of the Interstates and highways.
Schuman points to Minneapolis, where the interchange between Interstates 35E and 694 was the 63rd worst in the country in 2007.
It handles about 80, 000 motorists on these two interstates that were damaged.
There are a few locations, but the best is in Wooster Square, a compact Italian-American neighborhood hemmed in by interstates and train tracks.
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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With 3.2 million rigs driving the interstates and consuming 25 billion gallons of diesel annually, these developments could have strong implications for natural gas consumption.
This means, among other things, an enhanced federal role in projects that cross state borders, including not only the interstates but intermodal freight and high-speed rail.
Bicyclists are allowed to use most roads with the exception of high-speed limited access roads such as highways or interstates, which have few interchanges, Clarke said.
Snyder has the backing of the business lobby, which complains that key trade routes to Canada, such as Interstates 94 and 69, are a patchwork of potholes and cracks.
Eastbound traffic on Interstates 87 and 287 came to a halt on Nov. 7, 2011, after Davitt dropped a rope ladder, anchored by his van, over the side of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
But the Federal Highway Administration rejected this proposal in April, citing a federal rule that toll revenue generated on interstates may be used only to improve or maintain the road with the toll.
"As a general rule, particularly in urban areas, the road networks are such that there are viable alternatives to highways and interstates, and cyclists are able to use the rest of the roadwork, " he said.
Many sellers of the ponderous recreational vehicles seen lumbering down the Interstates during the summer now report that their fastest-growing market consists of people between 35 and 50 who have finally hung up their boots.
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For instance, when I head north up the Hudson Valley it always wants me to go from the Saw Mill River Parkway over to Interstates 684 and 84 and then back to the Taconic, instead of straight from the Saw Mill to the Taconic.
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The development of a hundred and thirty-eight acres at the junction of two major interstates was a challenge because a hundred and fifty thousand tons of contaminated soil had to be removed before the project on the site of the old steel mill could even begin.
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