Beltways

The plan would imprint a wheel atop the Hub: concentric beltways, an outer and an inner, connected along key corridors by expressways radiating from the core. ❋ Eric Jaffe (2010)

The withdrawal of combat forces from urban areas will allow U.S. forces to focus on beltways outside cities to limit the movement of insurgents, and on border areas, Gen. Lanza said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By the by since H.G.Wells wrote, beltways have been designed which would be safe for getting on and off. ❋ Alix Mortimer (2009)

Thanks to a system devised in 1957 by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the Bureau of Public Roads, major interstate routes have one - or two-digit numbers, while connecting routes and city beltways have three digits. ❋ Unknown (2008)

McCain has long railed against the beltways big spenders. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A former K-Mart or Wal-Mart is a great place to house a transit hub-a center where retail, office, and transportation services converge, to better serve the nexus of urban and suburban commuters who are eager for alternatives to congested highways and urban beltways. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But in the regions where Americans actually want to live. they are swarming into the countryside, covering whole counties with "edge cities" flung outward from the beltways as if by centrifugal force. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He also understood the concept of a “beltway bubble” long before there were even paved roads, much less interstate highway beltways. ❋ Unknown (2007)

On the downside, it once led us to an Outback Steakhouse corporate office rather than a restaurant in Jacksonville FL, and it always routes you via the beltways. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Engineersplan to build second beltways around the first beltways — some are already done! ❋ Unknown (2007)

What's the latest plan to alleviate the beltways around our cities? ❋ Unknown (2007)

"Jesus, what the hell is that?" the tourists would ponder as they ploughed around the beltways that loop past that lonely little city on the lone prairie of the Great Plains of collected lone prairies. ❋ The Daily Growler (2006)

When the routes run into major urban areas, the beltways around the city carry a three-digit number that includes the main route number I-80 becomes I-280. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They didn't imagine that city neighborhoods would be torn apart to lay down beltways and interstates, or that expressways would be used to define and contain social divisions in cities. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So as you know, we have -- Sacramento is blessed with the fact that we have a lot of beltways and green parkways, and conceivably, he could have been hiding in there. ❋ Unknown (2001)

But we're not -- I mean, the interstate is finished, but there are 16 beltways planned across the country; you know, loops everyplace. ❋ Unknown (1997)

You tell me if out of the clear blue sky one can improvise 200 beltways throughout the country because the electorate says they are a very good thing to have. ❋ Unknown (1978)