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The Don Valley Parkway is a controlled-access six-lane municipal expressway in Toronto connecting the Gardiner Expressway with Highway 401. North of Highway 401, it continues as Highway 404 to Newmarket. The parkway runs through the parklands of the Don River valley, after which it is named. It was the second expressway to be built by Metropolitan Toronto (Metro). Planning began in 1954, the year of Metro's formation. The first section opened on August 31, 1961, and the final section on November 17, 1966. The parkway operates well beyond its intended capacity of 60,000 vehicles per day and is known for daily traffic jams; some sections carry an average of 100,000 vehicles a day. Planned as part of a larger expressway network within Toronto, it was one of the few expressways built before the public opposition which cancelled many of the others. (Full article...)

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...that the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel (pictured) uses computer regulated traffic controls to safely carry bi-directional automobile and train traffic through the single-laned tunnel?
...that in 2013 North Carolina Highway 45 was extended from Swan Quarter to North Carolina Highway 12 in Ocracoke via the Swan Quarter-Ocracoke Ferry across the Pamlico Sound?
...that New Hampshire Route 113B is a suffixed route of Maine State Route 113, and it comes nowhere near its implied parent, New Hampshire Route 113?
...that when the US 41 Marquette Bypass opened in November 1963, cufflinks using jasper unearthed in the construction were supposed to be given to President Kennedy, but he was shot just hours later in Dallas?
...that the Northern Woods and Water Route is a 2,400 km (1,490 mi) highway route through northern Canada, from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Winnipeg, Manitoba?

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November 11 Interstate 57 is designated along a stretch of U.S. Route 67 in Arkansas.
November 1 The Daniel Carter Beard Bridge, which carries Interstate 471 over the Ohio River and the Ohio–Kentucky line, remains partially open while repairs are made from a fire.
October 30: Flooding in and around Valencia, Spain kills dozens and destroys several roads including the A-7
October 30: Interstate 26 in Tennessee has partially reopened from the damage from Hurricane Helene, with one narrow lane in each direction. Significant truck width and weight restrictions in effect on the temporary portion
October 28: INDOT and KYTC begin signing SR 265 and KY 841, respectively, as Interstate 265.
October 10: A section of US 17/US 92 in Orange City is washed out by the flooding aftermath from Hurricane Milton.
October 3: Caltrans announces that October 7, they will begin shifting traffic along US 395 to a new bypass of Olancha.

Ongoing: Interstate 40 closure at the NC–TN state line from Hurricane Helene • I-695 closure from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse

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Historic byways

Nov. 21, 2015 – Construction on an extension of Ontario Highway 401 in Windsor (pictured) is completed between Dougall Parkway and Ojibway Parkway, becoming the first new section of the route to be designated since 1968.
Nov. 22, 1991 – The second tube of the Lehigh Tunnel is completed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension, which later becomes Interstate 476, making the entire toll road into a divided highway.
Nov. 23, 1938 – Construction begins on the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington, which will carry Primary State Highway 14 across Puget Sound from Gig Harbor to Tacoma.
Nov. 23, 1955 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension opens between the mainline turnpike in Plymouth Meeting and US 22 near Allentown
Nov. 24, 1917 – Construction on the Toronto–Hamilton Highway is completed, becoming the first concrete road in Ontario, and one of the longest stretches of concrete highway in the world between two cities.
Nov. 25, 1992 – The final section of Interstate 75 is designated along Alligator Alley through the Everglades in Florida, completing the highway between Miami and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
Nov. 26, 1968 – A new section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike opens, bypassing part of the original highway, including the Sideling Hill Tunnel and Rays Hill Tunnel. The old route will later be known as the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Nov. 27, 1969 – A 5.2-mile (8.4-kilometer) long section of the Sprain Brook Parkway is opened in New York between Jackson Avenue in Greenburgh and the Cross Westchester Expressway in Elmsford.
Nov. 28, 2011 – The long awaited Fort Madison bypass is opened to traffic on U.S. Route 61 in Iowa at a cost of $25 million ($70 million in 2021). The older route through town becomes US 61 Business.
Nov. 29, 2001 – An old alignment of U.S. Route 66 through Illinois between Litchfield and Mount Olive is added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Nov. 30, 2021 – In the Northwest Territories, the Tłı̨chǫ All-Season Road, also known as Highway 9, is completed and open to traffic between the Yellowknife Highway (Highway 3) and Whati.

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An animation of the collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 1, 2007
A single building settlement called Middlegate, Nevada, at the junction of U.S. Route 50 and Nevada State Route 361, that has served as a stopover for travelers since the pony express era of the 1800's. This portion of US 50 is colloquially known as "The Loneliest Road in America".
New York State Route 258 passing through fields in rural Livingston County, New York. This portion of NY 258 serves as a boundary between two towns; the town of Groveland is on the left and the town of West Sparta is on the right.
Interstate 5 southbound (top, left) and its express lanes (bottom, left) seen at the Mercer Street offramp in Downtown Seattle, Washington
The Parks Highway on the way to Fairbanks, Alaska
Interstate 93 southbound in the Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel in Boston, part of the Big Dig
Looking down upon South Dakota Highway 10 from a scenic overlook west of Sisseton
The New Jersey Turnpike in Robbinsville Township, with separate lanes for cars only and cars, trucks, and buses
Maryland Route 197 within the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
A switchback along Utah State Route 143
State Road 972 in Coral Gables, Florida
New Mexico State Road 124 (old U.S. Route 66) westbound past exit 104 of Interstate 40 in Cibola County
Pennsylvania Route 33 northbound past the Pennsylvania Route 512 interchange in Wind Gap, approaching Blue Mountain
Interstate 40 eastbound in Arizona near the New Mexico border
Interstate 68 passing through the Sideling Hill road cut in Washington County, Maryland

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