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Designating the Urban Interstates

A section of the interregional system traversing residential areas of a city

Built within a block-wide right-of-way, on a gently rolling grade, depressed to pass under bridges at important cross streets and rising to normal ground level between, which varied median strip width and use of border areas for suitable neighborhood recreational purposes, a section of the interregional system traversing residential areas of a city, confirming in all respects to standards proposed by the committee, is shown in this sketch.
Built within a block-wide right-of-way, on a gently rolling grade, depressed to pass under bridges at important cross streets and rising to normal ground level between, which varied median strip width and use of border areas for suitable neighborhood recreational purposes, a section of the interregional system traversing residential areas of a city, confirming in all respects to standards proposed by the committee, is shown in this sketch.

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Updated: 06/27/2017
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