Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/September 2010

Looking east from the top of the Boji Tower showing the corner of Michigan and Grand avenues, part of the Capitol Loop

• ... that the Capitol Loop (pictured), a state highway in Lansing, Michigan serving the State Capitol, was designated in a plan to revitalize downtown?
• ... that the Carlin Tunnel, along Interstate 80 in Nevada, has its origins in an effort by the Southern Pacific Railroad to straighten the alignment of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1903?
• ...that the odds of someone dying on the portion of Interstate 40 in Haywood County, North Carolina are 20 times greater than winning the Powerball lottery?
• ...that a part of New York State Route 329 in Watkins Glen served as a segment of the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Course from 1948 to 1952?
• ...that prior to the construction of the Puncheon Run Connector in Dover, Delaware, a site along Puncheon Run had to be excavated as it consisted of prehistoric Native American artifacts?