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Orange County commissioner Bill Donegan, who grew up in California, sees signs that Orlando could become the next Los Angeles. Traffic on Interstate 4, which runs through the heart of the city, slows to a long standstill at rush hour. A regional planning group has said the highway will need 22 lanes by the year 2000; it now has six. A beltway that will run from the airport around the city is being started just as the head of Disney Attractions, Dick Nunis, is beginning to talk about the need for a second such artery...
...Wisconsin. Will County won by building a $300,000 road, finding $150,000 in state funds for a training program, extending a railroad spur to the plant's back door, negotiating with the owner of the 37-acre site to drop its price, and even renaming its county highway for Coilplus...
...addition to styrofoam helmets and racing gloves, the bikers who accompanied kennedy wore tee-shirts saying in bold black letters, "BACK THE BIKE BILL HR-2101." The slogan refers to a recent bill, drafted by Kennedy, which would earmark three percent of the Federal Highway Trust Fund for building bike routes across the nation...
...Raban's job. He returns to it just in time, with a roguish last chapter set offshore in the Florida Keys. He has rented a sailboat, and the wind is up, and banks of low nimbus clouds are swarming in from the northwest. Out of sight, the Key West highway is clogged with tourists, but that's their problem. Raban's narrative scuds toward the open sea, and the beguiled reader, as always at such moments, makes plans: sell the house, buy a boat. A case of salsa and a gallon of rum. How hard can it be to write...
Ever since state planners added blueprints for the 11-story, 16-lane interchange to their designs for a revamped state highway system more than two years ago, Scheme Z has come under fire from all sides...