Word: roadways
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...shop to find "the whole goddam ground lifting up." He grabbed a telephone pole as the sidewalk buckled beneath his feet, and looked up at a horrifying sight. A mile-long section of the freeway's upper deck began to heave, then collapsed onto the lower roadway, flattening cars as if they were beer cans. "It just slid. It didn't fall. It just slid," said Reynolds. "You couldn't see nothing but dust. Then people came out of the dust." But not many. Dozens of cars were crushed in the concrete sandwich. Officials hoped, against all odds, that most...
...again proved that he is unsurpassed in the art of extracting facts from chaos. While CBS's Dan Rather was still stressing the "unconfirmed" nature of reports about the collapse of the Bay Bridge, ABC (along with the ever enterprising CNN) had already broadcast a shot of the fallen roadway...
...also known as the Nimitz Freeway, collapsed when dozens of its concrete vertical support columns shattered during the violent shaking of the earthquake. Steel support rods inside the columns snapped like raw spaghetti under the multimillion-pound weight of the four-lane upper roadway. Some construction experts last week expressed outrage that the steel rods inside the columns had not been reinforced to help them withstand a powerful quake. Said Peter Lehrer, co-chairman of the Lehrer McGovern Bovis construction firm, which managed the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island: "There is no excuse for what happened...
...White House was proposing a more modest $2.5 billion package, including only $600 million for high-way repair and no special fund for the president. The administration said California should use local money and insurance, when appropriate, to pay for part of the roadway costs instead of having the federal government cover the entire...
...taxi pulled away from the Tambov train station, spraying mud and loose gravel from the potholed roadway. The landmarks were typical of a rural Russian administrative center. A tank seemed poised to topple off the memorial honoring the heroism of local citizens in the Great Fatherland War, as World War II is known. A crane loomed above the construction site of the new Communist Party headquarters, just across from an imposing statue of Lenin thrusting his arm into the future. Political posters and slogans of a type that had all but vanished from Moscow could be seen on billboards...