Road Warrior
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The Federal Highway Administration is having a party Saturday to give the public a chance to to wander atop the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge before traffic begins flowing across the spectacular $240 million span later this month.
If a human being is walking between two solid lines — or in some cases across solid rectangular dashes — people in motor vehicles must stop. For some reason, this doesn’t always happen.
Officials are concerned that the two-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 93 that is only two lanes wide might cause congestion when motorists come off the new four-lane bypass bridge, which opens in November, and hit the bottleneck.
When the Wright brothers launched themselves into history with their first powered flight in 1903, suggesting an aircraft would someday transport 500 passengers on 15-hour flights would earn you a one-way ticket to the loony bin.
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