Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 designated the East-West TransAmerica Corridor as High Priority Corridor 3. The U.S. Department of Transportation planned to extend Interstate 66 (I-66) from its current western terminus at Middletown, Virginia, across the country to California. Since that time, all of the proposed route of I-66 west of Wichita, Kansas, has been postponed, with the Nevada and California sections cancelled. Among the reasons for this were lack of interest in the western states, insufficient traffic for an interstate in the area (in fact, in some places there was no pre-existing highway), and the route was to go through Death Valley National Park (to which the National Park Service was strongly opposed). The choice for the number 66 was to capitalize on U.S. Route 66 (US 66). The case for westward expansion of I-66 was started by businesspeople in Wichita. Furthermore, there are currently no plans to build I-66 across the West Virginia–Virginia state line, which would leave this interstate with non-contiguous sections."@en }
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- Interstate_66_(Kansas–Kentucky) abstract "The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 designated the East-West TransAmerica Corridor as High Priority Corridor 3. The U.S. Department of Transportation planned to extend Interstate 66 (I-66) from its current western terminus at Middletown, Virginia, across the country to California. Since that time, all of the proposed route of I-66 west of Wichita, Kansas, has been postponed, with the Nevada and California sections cancelled. Among the reasons for this were lack of interest in the western states, insufficient traffic for an interstate in the area (in fact, in some places there was no pre-existing highway), and the route was to go through Death Valley National Park (to which the National Park Service was strongly opposed). The choice for the number 66 was to capitalize on U.S. Route 66 (US 66). The case for westward expansion of I-66 was started by businesspeople in Wichita. Furthermore, there are currently no plans to build I-66 across the West Virginia–Virginia state line, which would leave this interstate with non-contiguous sections.".