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US 74A is the site of North Carolina's first and longest-lasting Adopt-A-Highway program, started in 1988 by local residents of Gerton at the Upper Hickory Nut Gorge community center. The community center officially initiated the program with the governor that year, and their program to keep the road and surrounding right-of-way clean existed ...
An Adopt-A-Highway sign on Interstate 8. The Adopt-A-Highway program allows any organization to participate, which became a point of controversy when the Ku Klux Klan adopted a portion of Interstate 55 just south of St. Louis, Missouri. While legally the program had to uphold the groups' rights to participate, public outcry and repeated ...
Adoption is a way to keep all articles clean from virtual trash, like real-life Adopt-A-Highway programs keep highways free of litter. Adopting a highway means that you volunteer to keep that article up to current project standards (both USRD and WP:IH/WP:USH standards) and free of vandalism.
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Oct. 21—On Wednesday, Caltrans announced a new Clean California pilot program that will give Adopt-a-Highway volunteers up to $250 for picking up highway litter. As part of Gov. Gavin Newsom's ...
Missouri started its Adopt-a-Highway program in 1987. Now, more than 5,300 groups with over 50,000 volunteers work to keep about 6,400 miles of Missouri highways clean, Horn said.
The North Carolina Turnpike Authority was established on October 3, 2002, by ratification of House Bill 644 (S.L. 2002-133) and signed by Governor Mike Easley. [1] In its original draft, the authority was independent and only able to establish the first three projects in the following conditions: one project located in whole or in part in a county with a population equal to or greater than ...
In 1989, the North Carolina Department of Transportation denied the Sex Police's application to participate in the Adopt-A-Highway program, along with the KKK and a bra store. [23] Cheek said, "We thought it would be sort of nice thing to be able to drive down the highway and have a sign to say Sex Police.