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route 40, a block north of my house. it looks like a major road, but it only stretches for about a mile before it turns into city street again. the original plan was for this to connect to i95 and provide a quick way in and out of the city, but it never went through. dan told me that the people in the path of the construction didn't believe the hiway administration when they were told that the road would be on bridges (like that which leads into martin luther king boulevard) and they fought it until it was dropped. so now it just runs a mile until it stops with a bridge ending in midair. traffic is routed around the bridge and dumped back into the street.

what a waste of effort. dan suggested they should turn the overpasses into the hanging gardens of carey street.