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Nonetheless, Lemnitzer gamely paid an inspection visit to Chièvres. Though Belgian officials wanted to helicopter him to the place, he insisted on riding the winding, potholed highway, a 1½-hour trip that the Belgians insist can be speeded up by a superhighway they have in mind. The little town itself boasts 3,171 inhabitants. Only a two-minute walk from grazing cows and wheat fields, it has four cafés, none of which will ever make the pages of Michelin. Chièvres' chief offerings are a 16th century Gothic chapel and a brewery...
Antwerp has been blessed by history, geography and its neighbor's good roads. The single superhighway leading from the city fortunately connects with the German autobahn, and excellent canal and rail links tie Antwerp to the rest of Europe. Compared with its bigger competitors for investment, Belgium is more centrally located than Italy or Britain, more politically friendly than France, and farther from the Iron Curtain than West Germany. In the hunt for new business, Antwerp since 1956 has spent $100 million to clear industrial sites and double its harbor capacity, plans to have the port ready...
This Detroit daydream come true was made possible last week by the opening of a new superhighway that bypasses "Gasoline Alley," an elevenmile stretch of road south of Hartford with 18 stop lights and heavy local traffic, lined on both sides with aluminum diners, neon-lit drive-ins and stucco motels...
Broad, open and breezy as the superhighway may be out in the country, it often hits trouble at the city limits. The name of the trouble is "downtown." Where cities prize the idea of a distinct center, or where they are locked into it by topography, as in New York City or San Francisco, the congestion of building at the center vastly increases the difficulty of applying the principles-divided lanes, cloverleafs -of the expressway. Where cities have ample room and are indifferent to the idea of "downtown," expressways can be shaped in belts, loops and spokelike patterns that solve...
...looked like the War of Independence all over again. There, in front of George Washington's Revolutionary headquarters in Morristown, N.J., marched a small army of residents wearing tricornered hats and flowing capes, toting vintage muskets and calling fellow citizens to arms. Their enemy? A six-lane superhighway that threatens to slice through the historic part of town. The fight-the-highway movement is not unique to Morristown. As the federal government's $41 billion interstate highway program enters its ninth year, more and more citizens are protesting that the road to faster automobile travel is not worth...