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• n  a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
• n  an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form

• Technophiles enthused about the "information superhighway.
• If there is anybody I know who was born for this e-mail, text-message, BlackBerry, information-superhighway, YouTube, MySpace, blogosphere, URL world we now live in, it's Brian .
• Before the information superhighway, schools were built around massive libraries, like the 400-year-old Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, above, in Britain.

• expressway
• freeway
• motorway
• pike
• state highway
• throughway
• thruway
• information superhighway

News & Articles

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• Unique Villanova home is original tollkeeper's house
  Authorized by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly in 1792, the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike was the first planned and engineered road in the United States, with a hard, macadam-like surface and maximum grade of 7 percent. Linking the growing city to the farm fields of Lancaster, it was, in a sense, the superhighway of its time.
  June 12, 2013 - Main Line Suburban Life
• Project hopes to convert old turnpike into bike trail
  It's called the "Pike to Bike" Project, a group hoping to turn an abandoned portion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike into a bike trail. "This is the original superhighway of the United States Pennsylvania Turnpike and this was a section that was abandoned in 1968," said Donald Schwartz, director of the Bedford County Planning Commission said. Now, "enter at your own risk" signs are posted near ...
  June 7, 2013 - WJAC 6 Johnstown

Quotes

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• Joe Biden in Newsweek
  (WASHINGTON) When Joe Biden tells voters he understands the threat posed by Afghan extremists, he dramatically illustrates one reason why: His helicopter was "forced down" on "the superhighway of terror."
• Harry Reid in International Herald Tribune
  Reforming our energy policies to build a cleaner, greener national transmission system - an electric superhighway - must be a top national priority,Reid said in a statement.
• Barack Obama in United Press International
  Just as President Dwight Eisenhower invested the US highway system in the 1950s, Obama said, "it's time to make the same kind of investment in the way our energy travels, to build a clean energy superhighway ...... ."