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highway: see road road, strip of land used for transportation. The history of roads has been related to the centralizing of populations in powerful cities, which the roads have served for military purposes and for trade, the collection of supplies, and tribute. ..... Click the link for more information. . highway [′hī‚wā] (civil engineering) A public road where traffic has the right to pass and to which owners of adjacent property have access. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| By contrast the Hollywood park project involves building a concrete cap over an existing freeway, not sinking what was an elevated highway into a newly dug tunnel. The perspective is mostly low to the ground, so the scenes quickly achieve an illusion of reality--briefly altered by details like a zebra waiting at a crosswalk and stacks of books holding up the elevated highway. He took a daring position in the 1950's when Robert Moses proposed building an elevated highway through Manhattan. |
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