See laner in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2011 February 12, Beth Collins, “10 record-breaking bridges”, in CNN:",
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"ref": "2012 June 1, James Kunstler, “Eyesore of the Month - January 2012”, in Kunstler, archived from the original on 2024-06-30:",
"text": "Get a load of where our heads are at in the USA as 2012 arrives on the scene. Family Fun Walk on a nine-laner, anyone?",
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"ref": "2012 February 28, Lou Powsner, “Lou: The Gowanus Expressway was a mistake”, in Brooklyn Paper:",
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"text": "Let's begin with the most confounding of the local roads - U.S. Highway 158, aka The Bypass, Croatan Highway, The Big Road, through Nags Head, KDH and Kitty Hawk. It's a five-laner, two lanes running in opposite directions with a center lane up the middle, and it's that center lane that gets people.",
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"ref": "2020 January 31, Tom Stienstra, “Sunday Drive: Palomares Two-Laner”, in SFGATE:",
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"ref": "2023 September 8, Caleb Taylor, “'Just unforgivable': Ivey West Alabama Corridor would exhaust state borrowing capacity, put required funding match for I-65 widening out of reach, says state lawmaker”, in 1819 News:",
"text": "\"But I said, what can I do for this great state? 'You can make a six-laner,'\" he declared. \"Does everyone agree that's a big deal? OK, we'll do that first day.\"",
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"ref": "(Can we date this quote?), Tommy Connor, David Joannides, Claire Yang, “Buford Highway”, in ScholarBlogs:",
"text": "Voted one of the ten “Worst Streets in America” by the Congress for the New Urbanism, Buford Highway can be described as “a seven-laner flanked by low-income garden apartments, ‘with no sidealks^([sic]) and two miles between traffic lights'” (Jeff Speck). Speck noted that “the biggest risks that people faced were coming from the built environment”.",
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"ref": "2012 June 1, James Kunstler, “Eyesore of the Month - January 2012”, in Kunstler, archived from the original on 2024-06-30:",
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"text": "\"But I said, what can I do for this great state? 'You can make a six-laner,'\" he declared. \"Does everyone agree that's a big deal? OK, we'll do that first day.\"",
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