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The Gateway Bridge is an overpass structure which separates Interstate 94 and US Route 24 (Telegraph Road) in Taylor, Michigan. This span is a unique tied arch design which was completed during Fall 2005 in advance of Super Bowl XL. The bridge is intended to serve as the "gateway to Detroit" for travelers heading east on Interstate 94 into the city. The Gateway Bridge of Taylor, Michigan The Gateway Bridge was a replacement for the original overpass bridges separating Interstate 94 and US Route 24 (Telegraph Road) in Taylor.  The structure was developed by the Detroit Regional Gateway Advisory as project slated to be completed in advance of Super Bowl XL.  The span was intended to serve as a figurative gateway to the urban core of Detroit for travelers heading east from Metro Airport on Interstate 94.  Construction of the Gateway Bridge began during May 2004 during which Interstate 94 continued to use the original overpass bridges crossing US Route 24.  The span wa...

White Rock Road is a twenty-eight-mile-long highway corridor which begins at the Chowchilla River in Merced County and ends at Old Highway 18 in Mariposa County near the town site of Bridgeport.  The portion of White Rock Road between the Merced County and Mariposa County line to Bridgeport (via the town site of White Rock) is one of the oldest continuously used highway corridors in California.  Once known as the "Mariposa River Road" the corridor was developed in the 1850s as one of the two primary highways to the mining communities of Mariposa County.   White Rock Road was bypassed in 1918 when Legislative Route Number 18 was completed between Merced and Mariposa.  The corridor was for time known as Mariposa and Le Grand Road prior to the construction of Mariposa Creek Dam (formerly Mariposa River) in 1948.  Following construction of the dam the roadway took the name it has now and was extended through Merced County to the Chowchilla River.  Much of ...