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5 unusual facts about Highway


Fatima Jinnah Dental College

It is rumored that the property for another new campus has already been brought, somewhere on Karachi Super Highway, but there is no official word on it yet from the Management.

Henry G. Shirley

This road was named as the Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway in his honor, and now is part of I-95 and I-395.

Robards, Kentucky

Present day when traveling Highway U.S. 41 South, you will see the road sign calling "Robards the Sanctified Town".

Tri-City, California

Tri-City also contains the Oceanside Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), as well as several main streets such as parts of Vista Way, College Boulevard, Lake Boulevard, Plaza Drive and Highway 78.

Vivek Maddala

He is known for composing music scores for independent movies such as Kaboom, Highway, and American Revolutionary, as well as for silent film restorations for Turner Classic Movies.


Arizona State Route 564

State Route 564, also known as SR 564, is a state highway in northern Arizona serving Navajo National Monument.

Arizona State Route 587

The entire highway is just six miles (10 km) long, traveling entirely within the Gila River Indian Reservation, and serves as a shortcut from the far southern suburbs of the Phoenix metropolitan area to Interstate 10.

Carolyn Dennis

Their marriage and parenthood was completely unknown to both Dylan's fans and the media until the 2001 publication of Down the Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes.

Charles Harwood

The highway from the Harry S. Truman Airport to the capital Charlotte Amalie was later named the Charles Harwood Highway.

Injibara

Modern Injibara was constructed since 1991 at a place called Kosober by locals, at the junction of Highway 3 from Addis Ababa to Bahir Dar and the road leading west towards Chagni and into Metekel Zone.

INTERMAT Middle East

INTERMAT Middle East is an event showing the equipment and techniques used in the international building and civil engineering sectors to contractors and public authorities, all companies involved in building road, highway, railway, bridges, tunnels, ports and airports, marine and oil & gas infrastructures in the Middle East region.

Jüdenberg

Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 107 between Coswig and Bad Düben runs right through the community.

Knik River

Much of its length is paralleled by the paved Old Glenn Highway and the paved (as of 2000) Knik River Road, along which can be found the community of Knik River.

Lower Towamensing Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Its villages include Aquashicola (locally pronounced "ack-wa-SHIK-la,") Christian Corner, Hazard, and Little Gap (which hosts the Blue Mountain Ski Area.) Its highway access is via Route 248, which extends through the southern gorge of the river to connect Lehighton with the Lehigh Valley and has nearby interchanges in Palmerton and Bowmanstown.

Malaysia Federal Route 22

The section running from Tamparuli to Ranau, which is known as Tamparuli-Ranau Highway, runs across the Crocker Range which houses the Mount Kinabalu, offering scenic views to motorists.

Manitoba Provincial Road 275

Although the highway is extremely straight, it does cross some hilly terrain and offers views of the Swan River Valley.

Martin Krippner

He was chairman of the Puhoi Highway District Board in 1874, and in 1877 and 1878 served on the Rodney County Council.

Maryland Route 129

Park Heights Avenue becomes a four-lane undivided highway shortly before Belvedere Avenue, where the highway passes the western edge of Pimlico Race Course, the site of the Preakness Stakes.

Maryland Route 158

The two-lane state highway curves east and closely parallels the northbound lanes of I-695 (Baltimore Beltway); the two highways are separated by a Jersey barrier.

Maryland Route 18

The state highway passes the namesake park of the youth agricultural organization shortly after crossing Reed Creek.

Maryland Route 192

There, the highway has a four-way intersection with Seminary Road, which continues southeast across I-495 (Capital Beltway), and Linden Lane, which heads southwest across an at-grade crossing of the rail line toward the redeveloped National Park Seminary and the U.S. Army's Forest Glen Annex.

Maryland Route 22

East of MD 543, MD 22 reduces to two lanes and passes through farmland with scattered residential subdivisions where the highway passes the historic homes Dibb House and Tudor Hall, the latter notable for being the boyhood home of John Wilkes Booth.

Maryland Route 231

Before reaching the river, the state highway passes to the north of the village of Benedict, which was the site of the landing of British troops to march toward Washington prior to the Battle of Bladensburg during the War of 1812.

Minnesota State Highway 104

Highway 104 changes direction to east–west in Chippewa Falls Township and continues as east–west for 6 miles before returning again to a north–south direction in Barsness Township for the remainder of its route to Glenwood.

Minnesota State Highway 27

State Highway 27 serves as an east–west route between Browns Valley, Wheaton, Alexandria, Long Prairie, Little Falls, Mille Lacs Lake, and Moose Lake.

Father Hennepin State Park is located on Highway 27 at the southeast corner of Mille Lacs Lake, one mile (1.6 km) west of Isle.

Minnesota State Highway 36

Highway 36 crosses the St. Croix River via the historic Stillwater Lift Bridge between Stillwater and Houlton, WI.

Mopac

The Mopac Expressway, State Highway Loop 1 in Austin, Texas, named after the Missouri Pacific railroad whose tracks bisect the expressway.

Nenana River

The upper valley of the river furnishes approximately 100 mi (160 km) of the northern route of both the Alaska Railroad and the Parks Highway (Alaska State Highway 3) connecting Fairbanks and Anchorage.

New Jersey Route 303

The proposed alignment of Route 303 was to begin at an intersection with New Jersey Route 4, a major highway in northern New Jersey, north of the community of Fort Lee.

New York State Route 12E

In the center of the hamlet, the highway intersects with NY 180, a road leading to Dexter in the south and the Thousand Islands region in the north.

New Zealand State Highway 77

State Highway 77 is a State Highway in New Zealand going through the inland parts of Central and Mid Canterbury between the towns of Ashburton and Darfield via the Rakaia Gorge.

Northwestel

The microwave system on the Alaska Highway was inaugurated with a phone call from Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, visiting Whitehorse, to President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C..

Ontario Highway 409

Instead of continuing northwest from Highway 427 and through Malton's four-corners at Derry Road and Airport Road towards Brampton, it would curve southwest and provide access to the developing Pearson Airport.

Ontario Highway 427

In 1963, it was announced by MacNaughton that Highway 401 would be widened from a four-lane highway to a collector-express system, modelled after the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago.

Ontario Highway 531

Highway 531 is a short highway east of North Bay which serves to connect the community of Bonfield with Highway 17, the Trans-Canada Highway.

Providence Stadium

Located along the East Bank Highway the stadium is a ten minute drive from Georgetown's city centre and a 30 minute drive from Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

Quebec Route 307

On June 23, 2010, part of the highway was closed between Val-des-Bois and Bowman, due to a partial bridge collapse caused by a 5.0 magnitude earthquake.

Quebec Route 385

The highway runs from the junction of Route 138 in Forestville and ends over 80 kilometers further north into large wooded areas which the main purpose of the road is for the wood industry in the Côte-Nord region.

Quirino Avenue

The whole length of the highway that forms part of Circumferential Road 2 was later named in honor of the sixth president of the Philippines, Elpidio Quirino.

Roads Committee

In Jersey, the Roads Committee (French: Comité des Chemins) is the highway authority for Parish roads in each Parish.

SAP Arena

A tram line (number 6) connects the SAP Arena to Mannheim city center and a newly built road connection to the B 38a highway connects it to the A 656 Autobahn, leading to the A656/A 6 interchange, connecting eastbound Mannheim to Heidelberg (A656), and north/southbound to Frankfurt, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart (A6), as well as a little north on the A6 to Kaiserlautern (westbound).

Shtyki Memorial

It is located on the 40th km of Leningrad highway, at the second entry into the city of Zelenograd heading south, and the road to Mendeleyevo heading north.

South Carolina Highway 462

The highway connects to several historic places, including Robertville Baptist Church, Gillisonville Baptist Church and the Old House Plantation.

South Western Highway

From then on the highway passes through thick forests featuring many native trees like jarrah, marri and karri.

Stone sheep

Stone's Sheep are primarily found in Northern British Columbia and can often be seen by travellers licking minerals along the side of the Alaska Highway in areas such as Summit Lake, Stone Mountain Provincial Park and Muncho Lake Provincial Park.

Takanini

An old highway, the Great South Road, runs through Takanini, forming its main street.

Tennessee State Route 71

At this time, South Knox Blvd. ends at Sevierville Pike, although there are current plans to extend the road to meet U.S. Highway 441 (Chapman Highway) or Tennessee SR-168 (Governor John Sevier Highway).

The Arrogant

This film stars Gary Graham and Sylvia Kristel, Giovanni and Julie, as two strangers who meet on a desert highway.

Three Creeks Township, Boone County, Missouri

The Columbia Regional Airport is located on former prairie east of U.S. Highway 63.

U.S. Route 90

The 1929 vintage bridge carrying Highway 90 over Chef Menteur Pass was repaired and opened to traffic on August 11, 2006 after it was closed after the storm.

U.S. Virgin Islands Highway 20

Highway 20, or North Shore Road is a road on St. John.

Usui Pass

The pass on the ancient Tōsandō highway was described as early as the 8th century, in the Nihon Shoki, as Yamato Takeru went through the pass during his journey in eastern Japan.

Welwyn

In Graham Robb's book "The Ancient Paths" there is a suggestion that Welwyn lay on a late-Celtic highway running in the direction of the summer solstice angle straight from Bury St Edmunds to Salisbury via the Catuvellauni headquarters outside modern-day St Albans.

Wiehltal bridge

The Wiehltal Bridge is a highway bridge on the A 4 motorway between Cologne and Olpe over the Wiehltal valley at Engelskirchen (Oberbergischer Kreis), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.


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