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    By: Devvy
    September 22, 2013
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    Those of us trying to bring the truth to our fellow Americans about the massive lies by the U.S. government regarding what really happened on 9/11, the breathtaking scope of the cover-up about the impostor sitting in the White House and more are called conspiracy nuts, right wing nuts, you name it. Is it any wonder the pond scum in the U.S. Senate is trying to define what is a journalist so that folks like me will not be covered by the shield law? I'm not surprised. The 'alternative media' has been replacing the liars for hire in the "mainstream" media and cable network for years.
    The global elites have been working for centuries to destroy this constitutional republic. They've done it courtesy of a media apparatus that quit telling the American people the truth longer than I've been alive. Trust Tom Brokenjaw, Dan Blather, Diane CFR Sawyer and all the rest? When pigs fly.
    They've done it through job killing treaties. Go take a look at this map published in the Denver Compost (Post) titled A New North America. When I saw that as we were fighting tooth and nail to stop NAFTA, I was shocked. But, that was only a year or so into my journey for the truth, so I was a bit green back then and still learning. New World Order means just that: ordering of the world; connecting our financial well being to the rest of the world (i.e. Basil agreements; see my column) as well as free market killers like the fake global warming scam. Obama to Usher In New World Order at G-20
    While it's difficult to accept that people like George Bush, Jr, his father as well as the Clinton duo are traitors, their actions prove them to be part of the cabal diligently working towards the complete and total surrender of the sovereignty of these united States of America as a country. It goes without saying the Manchurian Candidate squatting in our White House with his militant Marxist wife is working towards the same goals. Even the grand fatherly and popular Harry Truman didn't get to the White House without being a player: "When Franklin Roosevelt died during the closing days of WWII, it fell to Truman to end the war and formulate policies for the new world order." The Smithsonian Treasury: The Presidents (1991), pg 72.
    Truman was instrumental in founding the communist controlled UN. He signed the unconstitutional Marshall Plan, stealing $13 BILLION dollars from we the people for the economic and technical assistance recovery of European countries. No where in the U.S. Constitution does it authorize Congress or a president to steal the fruits of our labor to give to any foreign country for any reason. But, it was just another step in building a one world order. Past legitimate presidents have worked diligently to mesh the U.S. with Canada and Mexico; no more borders which should make Judge Andrew Napolitano a happy camper.
    Eight years ago, millions of us were hammering on the Republican controlled Outlaw Congress as well as our state legislators to stop the next giant step:
    "In July 2005, Phyllis Schlafly exposed the plans to integrate our republic with Canada and Mexico, although there were spotty articles here and there over the years about this treason (list of them at bottom of my column here). Dr. Jerome Corsi has also spent the past couple of years exposing this insidious grand plan to finally do away with our borders all in the name of global trade. This issue is a major battle ground, although tens of millions of Americans have no idea what it's about thanks to the compromised media and network cable channels. I was in LA last week and driving from my little town in Texas to LA and back, not one single person I queried had ever heard of the NAU/SPP nor did they know anything about it. Not one. This isn't surprising, especially in the major metropolitan cities like Phoenix and LA because their newspapers are just like the NY Times and other conglomerates: instead of sounding the alarm, they churn out propaganda every day of the week. Cable networks like FAUX (FOX) News spend their time on the trials and tribulations of pop tarts like Lindsay Lohan or promoting the continuation of this immoral, unconstitutional mess in Iraq.
    "What is the North American Union/ Security and Prosperity Partnership really all about? What is the NAFTA Superhighway, Texas Trans Corridor, Mexican trucks being allowed into the U.S. for the first time beginning 1 September, the Kansas City 'Smart Port' and the 'Ports to Plains Trade Corridor' really all about? It's about trade. It's about $big money$. It's about denying a free people our sovereignty, putting us under international laws and rule and destroying true freedom and liberty given to us by blood sacrifice. I ran my ideas by Dr. Edwin Vieira this past weekend and he said to the effect: "Corporations involved are laying down a lot of scratch for concrete and road tar and they expect a return - soon."
    Now, let me jump over to 'smart' meters and the 'smart grid' because this is all one giant interwoven system being shoved down our throats. We know the 'smart' meters are critical for the massive 'smart' grid covering this beautiful country with dirty electricity making millions chronically sick and dying. This is the reason the power companies and TDSPs (Transmission Distribution Service Providers) who install those dangerous meters have been pushing so hard to connect every house and business in this country to that grid. A grid that will go down (whole or in part), likely in the next couple of years. Think what will happen to 50-60 million people unprepared to live without power for a week or even months.

    Without question, the U.S. government's geoengineering - the spraying of our skies, an important program for the evil doers- has wreaked havoc all across this country. I first became aware of the 'chemtrail' disaster about 12 years ago thanks to Rosalind Petersen. This is not an issue one can cover in a few paragraphs, but one that directly affects us all as our air is being poisoned by the spraying. Rosalind's web site has more than 40,000 documents (see links at bottom).
    What's so aggravating is our state legislators who refuse to even look at this on-going threat to our health, our pets, farm animals, our water and food directly and negatively impacted by the spraying. Are they so damn stupid they don't understand they're also breathing the toxic air as well as their family? Those chemicals fall into reservoirs and onto land growing crops and still, we the people in dozens of states have run up against indifference or 'conspiracy kooks' with members of our legislatures.
    It's issues like the spraying of our skies and stopping the planned destruction of our country that must be a promise by any candidate running for our state legislatures as well as constitutional sound money, Agenda 21 and other big issues. Here in Texas, our legislature did nothing about those dangerous 'smart' meters this last session and too many other critical things. They don't go back into session until Jan. 2015, by then it will be too late.
    Water is a severe problem in this country and it will worsen:
    Water flowing over dams that create electricity - electricity we pay a lot of money for every month. States like California, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada are starving for water and yet, what is in the works while you're trying to put food on the table? Why you and I are being raped once again to pay for this:
    "At the Sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, the United States joined Colombia and other leaders of the Western Hemisphere in committing to achieve universal access to electricity over the next decade through enhanced electrical interconnection. This initiative, developed by Colombia and called “Connecting the Americas 2022” will increase access to reliable, clean, and affordable electricity for the region's 31 million citizens without it. Connecting the Americas 2022 supports the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA), launched by President Obama at the 2009 Summit of the Americas, which promotes regional collaboration on low-carbon development, energy security, and climate change.
    Electrical Interconnection in the Americas
    "The Western Hemisphere produces one quarter of the world's oil, almost one-third of its natural gas, and nearly 30 percent of global electricity, and is also endowed with abundant renewable energy resources. The region requires a 26 percent increase in new power generation capacity to meet annual projected GDP growth of as much as 6 percent over the next decade. Electrical interconnection benefits all countries by allowing those with excess power to export electricity to countries that have a power deficit. Interconnected power systems allow for greater integration of renewable energy resources, as well as power exchanges among countries with varying climate and seasonal needs. Interconnection expands the size of power markets, creating economies of scale, which can attract private investment, lower capital costs, and reduce electricity costs for consumers -- that makes businesses more competitive and helps create jobs. When coupled with national strategies to develop off-grid, mini-grid, or clean cook stoves, electrical interconnection will bring modern energy services to hundreds of millions who have limited or no access, including in this hemisphere."
    More the phony 'global warming' er, newly minted 'climate change' bull manure that has proven to be a big, fat lie. There's that "universal" again; Obamacare's "universal" is a monumental disaster. Oh, but it gets better:
    "Deepening the work of the U.S.-Mexico Cross Border Electricity Task Force to promote renewable energy markets between our two countries.

    "Enhancing cross-border trade in electricity through the U.S.-Canada Energy Consultative Mechanism.
    "Facilitating Smart Grid technology cooperation between DOE and Colombia through the U.S.-Colombia High Level Partnership Dialogue's Energy Working Group.
    "New State-supported technical assistance to governments and utilities in Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis to develop their geothermal sectors and establish the commercial, regulatory, and legal frameworks needed to support inter-island sub-sea power connections.
    "New U.S. Trade and Development Agency Smart Grid Series that will host Mexican and Colombian regulatory and power utility company representatives in 2012 to familiarize them with the U.S. Smart Grid regulatory environment, technologies, and equipment, based on a successful Chilean program in 2011."

    Here in Texas we are energy independent but ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) is pushing hard to get Texas onto the 'smart' grid. Here's the propaganda. The 'smart' grid fed by those dangerous 'smart' meters is to eventually control how much power you and I will be able to use in our homes. You won't have a choice because the power companies can flip a switch and control your heat, A/C and appliances. That's what those sensors built into all new appliances are for. It's all coming if we don't say no and fight back. We're being run into the ground with unpayable debt to fund our own destruction.
    America is still dependent upon other countries for oil because the Republican controlled Congress refused to open ANWR even though they had a Republican in the White House; Bush, Jr. The two columns below contain very important information:
    We have rolling brown outs in many states during the summer because energy suppliers run short and have to buy from neighboring states. Wait 'til the black outs for days at a time hit. Wait until our energy supply gets sucked out of this country and sent some where else.
    The U.S. Congress has ZERO authority to steal the fruits of our labor to put one penny of our money into 'Connecting the Americas 2022'. All by design to create borderless countries. Tie us all into one gigantic grid in the spirit of Marxist Bill Clinton's "interdependence" nightmare. There used to be real Americans serving in Congress who warned about "interdependence":
    Hon. Marjorie S. Holt of Maryland, In the House of Representatives, January 19, 1976, Congressional Record, page 240
    "Mrs. Holt. Mr. Speaker, many of us recently received a letter from the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, inviting Members of Congress to participate in a ceremonial signing of "A Declaration of Interdependence" on January 30 in Congress Hall, adjacent to Independence Hall in Philadelphia. A number of Members of Congress have been invited to sign this document, lending their prestige to its theme, but I want the record to show my strong opposition to this declaration.
    "It calls for surrender of our national sovereignty to international organizations. It declares that our economy should be regulated by international authorities. It proposes that we enter a "new world order" that would redistribute the wealth created by the American people. Mr. Speaker, this is an obscenity that defiles our Declaration of Independence, signed 200 years ago in Philadelphia. We fought a great Revolution for independence and individual liberty, but now it proposed that we participate in a world socialist order.
    "Are we a proud and free people, or are we a carcass to be picked by the jackals of the world, who want to destroy us? When one cuts through the high-flown rhetoric of this "Declaration of Interdependence," one finds key phrases that tell the story. For example, it states:
    "The economy of all nations is a seamless web, and that no one nation can any longer effectively maintain its processes of production and monetary systems without recognizing the necessity for collaborative regulation by international authorities."
    "How do you like the idea of "international authorities" controlling our production and monetary system, Mr. Speaker? How could any American dedicated to our national independence and freedom tolerate such an idea? The declaration goes on to urge a strengthening of the United Nations and a broadening of the jurisdiction of the World Court, "that these may preside over a reign of law that will not only end wars but end as well the mindless violence which terrorizes our society even in times of peace. Examine this closely. It suggests that world government will somehow cure the problems of crime and terrorism, not just the problem of war. Quite obviously, the sponsors of this declaration have lost all contact with reality."
    Marxist's like Hillary Clinton haven't lost all contact with reality. She and all her buddies who belong to the secret societies like Skull and Bones, Quill & Dagger, Bilderberg, Alfalfa Club and so on know exactly what they're doing. What can we do? The 50 states are sovereign. Unless state legislatures decide to give up that sovereignty, they must refuse to be part of the diabolical road being taken by our government. This is what must be hammered on with every state legislature in the Union.
    Thank heaven the vile, Rick Perry, will be leaving the governor's mansion next November. Oh, how he's had conservatives in this state fooled for so long.
    "Gov. Perry supported the construction of infrastructure for the North American Union. Gov. Perry was the prime mover in favor of the construction of the NAFTA superhighway, also called the Trans-Texas Corridor. As author Jerry Corsi has documented in his book, “The late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada,” this superhighway was part of a larger plan to create a North American Union modeled after the European Union, or EU, with the goal of ultimately eliminating the borders that exist between America, Mexico and Canada. Of course, the long-range goal of such continental unions is the elimination of sovereignty altogether, with all North American occupants become NAU citizens, the Constitution be damned.

    "A million-and-a-half acres of land would be needed to accommodate the 4,000-mile road, rail and pipeline system. The highway would have been four football fields wide. Perry threatened to use his eminent domain powers to confiscate this land from private ranches and farms to construct the Trans-Texas Corridor. It would have been the largest private land grab in American history. There rose such an outcry from the people of Texas that Gov. Perry put the project on hold."
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    Think this can't happen to you and yours? Think again. If you're in the way of shaping the U.S. into regional pieces for world government, the powers that control events in this country will squash you like a bug.
    Once again, it takes boots on the ground to get bad state legislators, mayors and city council defeated in the 2014 primaries. Time to register for offices is getting close to the end; November 1st in most states. If your state legislator or senator doesn't get with it and start fighting - instead of supporting - Machiavellian tactics being used against we the people, he/she needs to be bounced in the primaries next year. Shame on our state legislature for turning their backs on stopping the Trans-Texas Corridor, the NAFTA superhighway and for not making it crystal clear to Washington, DC., that Texas will remain sovereign and not part of programs like Connecting the Americas 2022.
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    We can Thank Clinton for this he got Nafta through...
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    I-90 Corridor Overview

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    The Illinois Tollway is rebuilding and widening the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) as a 21st century, state-of-the-art corridor linking Rockford to O'Hare International Airport. The Jane Addams Memorial Tollway is part of Interstate 90 (I-90), the longest interstate in the United States, and covers 77 miles extending from near the Wisconsin border to the Kennedy Expressway. The I-90 corridor from Chicago to Rockford serves nearly one million travelers per day.
    Most of the Tollway's I-90 infrastructure is more than 55 years old. Since it was originally built in the 1950s, residential and commercial growth have strained parts of I-90 beyond its capacity, increasing delays and weakening economic activity. Although it has been repeatedly resurfaced and repaired, the pavement is near the end of its useful life.
    In 2011, the Illinois Tollway Board of Directors approved the 15-year, $12 billion capital program, Move Illinois: The Illinois Tollway Driving the Future. Move Illinois commits $2.5 billion to deliver a dramatic facelift to I-90 by rebuilding and widening 62 miles between Rockford and O'Hare with eight lanes from the Tri-State Tollway (I-294) to Randall Road and six lanes from Randall Road to I-39. In addition, the Tollway is accommodating transit options for the I-90 corridor - the first time in the agency's history.

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    The Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) Rebuilding and Widening Project is expected to save drivers up to 27 minutes on the average trip from Elgin to the Kennedy Expressway. In addition, the improved roadway will accommodate as many as 30,000 more vehicles per day and will save drivers $440 million annually due to reduced congestion and delays.
    Further, the project is expected to create or sustain as many as 11,500 additional permanent jobs in the Chicago region. When complete, the corridor is projected to accommodate more than 15,000 trucks carrying 375,000 tons of freight per day.
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    The I-90 Rebuilding and Widening Project and other Move Illinois projects will enhance access to communities along the I-90 corridor through the construction of new and improved interchanges. The Tollway is improving interchanges and improving access at various locations including Lee Street, Elmhurst Road, Meacham Road, Roselle Road, Barrington Road, Illinois Route 25, Genoa Road and Irene Road. A new and improved full-access interchange at Illinois Route 47 opened in 2013.
    The current plan for I-90 provides for interchange improvements for a potential economic investment of $390-$430 million.
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    As part of the I-90 Rebuilding and Widening Project, the Illinois Tollway is providing $240 million to integrate transit into the corridor today, as well as future transit expansion plans.
    As part of the project, I-90 will feature the first Park & Ride facilities constructed on the Tollway. In addition, Pace will create new routes and expand existing service to improve transit services from Chicago to Elgin.
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    The new Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90) will incorporate the latest technologies available on the market today, including active traffic management (ATM) on a portion of the roadway to make I-90 safer and more efficient for the benefit of Tollway customers.
    The new I-90 will include flexible infrastructure to enable the Tollway to add new "smart" features as needed or as they become available in the years to come.
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    The Tollway is committed to "Building Green" and minimizing the environmental impact of construction by reducing, recycling and reusing materials, adopting a corridor approach to stormwater management and integrating energy efficient lighting. The Tollway is also undertaking projects that will protect and restore native prairie, forested fen and wetlands as part of the Tollway's wetland mitigation efforts for the I-90 corridor.
    In addition, the I-90 corridor includes the Illinois Route 47 Interchange that opened in November 2013 as the first "green" interchange on the Tollway system. The project featured several new green construction initiatives, including a geothermal water piping system that makes use of the earth's natural heating and cooling abilities to help heat and cool nearby plaza buildings in a more cost-effective and sustainable manner, reflective roofs and trellised vegetation for plaza buildings to further reduce heating and cooling costs, as well as ramp shoulder pavement that will allow water to seep through and reduce stormwater runoff.
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    The Illinois Tollway is working closely with residents, communities, businesses, elected officials, transit and transportation organizations to plan for and implement improvements on I-90. As construction work moves forward, the Tollway continues to host public open house meetings, community outreach meetings and is working with residents and businesses to provide information and answer questions. The I-90 Rebuilding and Widening Project is building on the I-90 Corridor Planning Council's recommendations developed by the region's transit and transportation planning agencies, business community and environmental groups and elected leaders.
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    The Jane Addams Memorial Tollway is divided into two segments for planning, design and construction purposes: the western segment spanning approximately 37 miles from Rockford to Elgin and the eastern segment spanning 25 miles from Elgin to Chicago.
    In 2014, major projects include the completion of the 37-mile western segment of the I-90 Rebuilding and Widening Project from Elgin to I-39 near Rockford with construction of the westbound lanes. Work on the 25-mile eastern segment of I-90 from Chicago to Elgin is scheduled for 2014-2016, with this year's work including noisewall and retaining wall installation, utility relocation and drainage work in advance of the roadway rebuilding and widening. Additionally, the westbound lanes between the Kennedy Expressway and I-294 will be rebuilt.
    Construction also includes new and improved interchanges, as well as reconstruction of the Fox River Bridge and local crossroad bridges throughout the entire I-90 corridor to accommodate the new, wider roadway.
    Westbound I-90 lane reduction - Kennedy Expressway to I-294
    Westbound I-90 traffic between the Kennedy Expressway and the Tri-State Tollway (I-294) will be reduced to two lanes from early May until the end of the year. In this area, the roadway is too narrow to safely accommodate a traffic shift to maintain three lanes and a work zone.
    For local alternate routes, take Higgins Road (Illinois Route 72) west and follow these routes:

    • To go west on I-90, take the I-90 west entrance ramp at Devon Avenue.
    • To go west on I-190, turn south onto Des Plaines River Road and take the I-190 west entrance ramp.
    • To go south on I-294, turn south onto Des Plaines River Road. At Balmoral Avenue, turn west and then turn left onto the I-294 south entrance ramp.

    In addition, during construction, drivers traveling from Chicago may also consider using the CTA Blue Line and connect to Pace bus routes as an alternate. Pace provides several bus routes with service along the I-90 corridor including Route 600, 606, 610, 616, 895. Detailed maps and schedules are available at www.pacebus.com.
    Consider an alternate route between Chicago and Rockford
    Ongoing construction will have an impact on travel throughout the 62-mile-long I-90 corridor. As a result, drivers may want to consider an alternate route. Depending on the destination, traffic traveling west to Rockford and Wisconsin can use the Reagan Memorial Tollway (I-8 to I-39 as an alternate route. Likewise, traffic traveling east toward Chicago and O'Hare International Airport can use the I-39/I-88 alternate route.
    For complete details and maps, please visit "Project By Roadway" in the Construction/Planning section on the Tollway's website www.illinoistollway.com.
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    The Pan-American Highway from Prudhoe Bay, U.S. toUshuaia, Argentina, with selected official and unofficial routes shown through the U.S.A. and Canada.

    The Pan-American Highway (French: Route / Autoroute Panaméricaine / Transaméricaine, Portuguese: Rodovia / Auto-estrada Pan-americana, Spanish: Autopista / Carretera / Ruta Panamericana) is a network of roads measuring about 48,000 kilometres (30,000 mi) in total length, except for a rainforest break of approximately 100 km (60 mi), called the Darién Gap. The road links almost all of the mainland nations of the Americas in a connected highway system. According to Guinness World Records, the Pan-American Highway is the world's longest "motorable road". However, because of the Darién Gap, it is not possible to cross between South America and Central America by traditional motor vehicle.
    The Pan-American Highway passes through many diverse climates and ecological types, from dense jungles, to arid deserts, some of which are passable only during the dry season, and in many regions driving is occasionally hazardous.
    Jake Silverstein, writing in 2006, described the Pan-American Highway as "a system so vast, so incomplete, and so incomprehensible it is not so much a road as it is the idea of Pan-Americanism itself".[1]
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    Development and completion[edit]

    The concept of a route from one tip of the Americas to the other was originally proposed at the First Pan-American Conference in 1889 as a railroad; however, nothing ever came of this proposal. The idea of the Pan-American Highway emerged at the Fifth International Conference of American States in 1923, where it was originally conceived as a single route. On 29 July 1937, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia,Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and the United States signed the Convention on the Pan-American Highway, whereby they agreed to begin construction.[2] The first Pan-American highway conference convened October 5, 1925 in Buenos Aires. Mexico was the first Latin American country to complete its portion of the highway, in 1950.[3]
    Countries served[edit]


    Map of the Alaska Highwayportion (in red) of the Pan-American Highway system.

    The Northern Pan-American Highway travels through 9 countries:



    The Southern Pan-American Highway travels through 9 countries:



    Important spurs also lead into Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay.
    Hemispheric Overview[edit]

    The Pan-American Highway system is physically mostly complete and extends in de facto terms from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in North America to the lower reaches of South America. Several southern highway termini are claimed to exist, including the cities of Puerto Montt and Quellón in Chile andUshuaia in Argentina. West and north of the Darien Gap, it is also known as the Inter-American Highway through Central America and Mexico where it splits into several spurs leading to the American border.
    The entire Interstate Highway System in the United States has been officially designated part of the Pan American system by the Federal Highway Administration. Of the many freeways that make up this very comprehensive system, there are several that stand out because of their mainly north-south orientation and their links to the main Mexican route and its spurs. These include the following:


    Northern section of the Pan-American Highway[edit]


    1933 map of the Inter-American Highway portion of the Pan-American Highway.



    Pan-American Highway in Guatemala, 2001.

    Alaska, Canada, and the lower 48 states[edit]

    In Canada, no particular road has been officially or unofficially designated as the Pan-American Highway (the Trans-Canada Highway, which runs mostly east-west, is the country's only official interprovincial highway system). However, some unofficial claims have been made based on routes that are a natural extension of several key American highways that reach the Canadian border. However, British Columbia Highway 97 and Highway 2 from that province to Alberta both pick up where the southern end of the Alaska highway leaves off. Highway 97 becomes US Highway 97 at the American border and eventually ends at Interstate Highways 5 in northern California. British Columbia Highway 99 provides an alternate route from highway 97 just north of Cache Creek that runs through Whistler and Vancouver before ending at the U.S. border at the north end of Interstate 5 in Washington State, the beginning of the official Pan-American route south of British Columbia. Meanwhile, Alberta Highway 2 runs south and east to Alberta Highway 3 leading into Lethbridge, then south on Alberta Highway 4 to the American border where it becomes Interstate 15 in Montana, the first official stretch of the Pan-American Highway south of the Alberta route. Interstate 15 runs south all the way to San Diego where it converges with Interstate 5 then heads east as Interstate 8. This links indirectly via a short stretch of Interstate 10 to Interstate 19 that becomes a spur of the Pan-American highway through Mexico at the Nogales border crossing.
    In 1966, the Federal Highway Administration designated the entire Interstate Highway System part of the Pan-American Highway System.[4][5] However comprehensive this designation, there are certain interstates and other smaller highways that attract particular attention because of special names that have been officially or unofficially attached or identity claims that have been made.
    When the section of Interstate 35 in San Antonio, Texas was built, it was named the Pan Am Expressway.[citation needed].

    The whole of I-35 is a northerly continuation of highway 85, the original official Mexican route, to the Canadian border just south of Thunder Bay, Ontario.

    This has led to an unofficial claim of the Trans-Canada Highway from Thunder Bay to Alberta, Canada as a de facto part of the Pan-American system.

    Interstate 25 in Albuquerque, New Mexico was named the Pan-American Freeway,[6]:248 as an extension of highway 45, the Mexican spur linking El Paso to the original route along highway 85 north of Mexico City.[7] This portion of I-25 largely follows the historic Camino Real, and thus serves a culturally significant portion of the Pan American system. Like I-35, the complete route of Interstate 25 is an official northerly continuation towards Alberta, where provincial highway 2 provides a clear but unofficial path to the Alaska Highway.
    The Pan American Highway Association claims U.S. Route 81 from its main point of separation from I35 south of McPherson, Kansas to Watertown, South Dakota where it merges with I29 running north to the Canadian border south of Winnipeg. There it links with the Thunder Bay-Alberta section of the Trans-Canada. Unlike the interstate highways through San Antonio and Albuquerque, the claim for Highway 81 remains unofficial.
    Beyond Alberta, the Alaska Highway through Alaska, the Yukon and northern British Columbia is also claimed as a de facto part of the Pan-American Highway, as well as the Dalton Highway in Alaska, which is the only year-round road in North America to reach the Arctic Ocean. The ice road from Inuvik, Canada also reaches the Arctic Ocean but is not claimed as part of the Pan-American system.
    Several intra-North American routes have names that make no direct reference to the Pan-American Highway. U.S. Route 85 is designated the CanAm Highway. It follows Interstate 25 from El Paso to Denver, Colorado, then separates from the interstate and leads to the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, where it follows parts of provincial highways 35, 39, 6, 3, and 2 in succession before terminating at La Ronge. This route was first proposed during the 1920s but was never properly promoted nor developed. A section of the CanAM in Southern Saskatchewan has regressed to the point where it is no longer a paved highway.[8] The CANAMEX Corridor is also similarly designated through the western United States from Arizona north to Montana,[9] and continuing to highway 2 in the Canadian province of Alberta. Finally, Interstate 69 from the Canadian Border at Port Huron, Michiganto Indianapolis, Indiana, and its partly built extension southward, has been dubbed the NAFTA Superhighway along with Ontario Highway 402 in Canada. It will have a spur linking to the original Pan-American route through Mexico to Laredo, Texas, and additional branches extending to the Mexican spurs that cross the border at McAllen, Texas, and Brownsville, Texas. When completed, I-69 will become another official route of the Pan American highway, this time connecting the Mexican routes with the Windsor-Quebec City Corridor in Canada. However, the Canadian extension will have no official status unless so proclaimed by the provincial governments of Ontario and Quebec.
    Mexico[edit]

    The official route of the Pan-American Highway through Mexico (where it is known as the Inter-American Highway) starts at Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas (opposite Laredo, Texas) and goes south to Mexico City along Mexican Federal Highway 85.[citation needed] Later branches were built to the border as follows:


    From Mexico City to the border with Guatemala, the highway follows Mexican Federal Highway 190.[10][11][12]
    Central America[edit]

    The Pan-American (or Inter-American) highway passes through the Central American countries with the highway designation of CA-1 (Central American Highway 1). In Guatemala, it passes through 10 departments, including Guatemala, where it passes through Guatemala City. In El Salvador, it passes through the cities of Santa Ana, Santa Tecla, Antiguo Cuscatlan, San Salvador, San Martin, San Miguel, and crosses the border into Honduras at Amatillo. From Honduras, it passes into Nicaragua, passing though the Nicaraguan cities of Chinandega, León, and Managua, before entering Costa Rica at Peñas Blancas. In Costa Rica, it passes through Liberia, San José, Cartago, Pérez Zeledón, Palmares, Neily, before crossing into Panama at Paso Canoas. In Panama, it crosses the Panama Canal, and ends at Yaviza, Panama at the edge of the Darién Gap. The road had formerly ended at Cañita, Panama, 110 miles (180 km) north of its current end. United States government funding was particularly significant to complete a high-level bridge over the Panama Canal, during the years when the canal was administered by the United States.
    Belize was supposedly included in the route at one time, as they switched which side of the road they drive on. As British Honduras, they were the only Central American country to drive on the left side of the road.
    Darién Gap[edit]

    Main article: Darién Gap
    The Pan-American Highway is interrupted between Panama and Colombia by a 100 km (60 mi) stretch of marshland known as the Darién Gap. On the South American side, the highway terminates at Turbo, Colombia, while on the Panamanian side, the road terminus is the town of Yaviza.
    Efforts have been made for decades to eliminate this gap in the Pan-American highway, but have been controversial. Planning began in 1971 with the help of United States funding, but this was halted in 1974 after concerns raised by environmentalists. Another effort to build the road began in 1992, but by 1994 a United Nations agency reported that the road, and the subsequent development, would cause extensive environmental damage. There is evidence that the Darién Gap has prevented the spread of diseased cattle into Central and Northern America, which have not seen foot-and-mouth disease since 1954, and since at least the 1970s this has been a substantial factor in preventing a road link through the Darién Gap. The Embera-Wounaan and Kuna have also expressed concern that the road would bring about the potential erosion of their cultures.
    One proposed option to bridge the gap is a short ferry link from Colombia to a new ferry port in Panama, with an extension of the existing Panama highway that would complete the highway without violating these environmental concerns.[citation needed]
    Southern section of the Pan-American Highway[edit]

    Main article: Pan-American Highway (South America)

    A Vía PanAmshield sign is sometimes found on routes in South American countries associated with the Pan-American Highway.



    Sculpture of a native man standing at the entrance ofFusagasugá, Colombiaover the PanAm Highway

    Colombia and Venezuela[edit]

    The southern part of the highway begins in northwestern Colombia, from where it follows Colombia Highway 62 to Medellín. At Medellín, Colombia Highway 54 leads to Bogotá, but Colombia Highway 25 turns south for a more direct route. Colombia Highway 72 is routed southwest from Bogotá to join Highway 25 at Murillo. Highway 25 continues all the way to the border with Ecuador.
    Another route, known as the Simón Bolívar Highway, runs from Bogotá (Colombia) to Guiria (Venezuela). It begins by using Colombia Highway 71 all the way to the border with Venezuela. From there it uses Venezuela Highway 1 toCaracas and Venezuela Highway 9 to its end at Guiria.
    Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay[edit]


    Monument on the Equator on the highway near Cayambe, Ecuador.

    Ecuador Highway 35 runs the whole length of that country. Peru Highway 1 carries the Pan-American Highway all the way through Peru to the border with Chile.
    In Chile, the highway follows Chile Highway 5 south to a point north of Santiago (Llaillay), where the highway splits into two parts, one of which goes through Chilean territory to Quellón on Chiloé Island, after which it continues as the Carretera Austral. The other part goes east along Chile Highway 60, which becomes Argentina National Route 7 at the Argentinian border and continues toBuenos Aires, the end of the main highway.[13] The highway network also continues south of Buenos Aires along Argentina National Route 3 towards the city ofUshuaia in Tierra del Fuego. Another branch, from Buenos Aires to Asunción in Paraguay, heads out of Buenos Aires on Argentina National Route 9. It switches to Argentina National Route 11 at Rosario, which crosses the border with Paraguay right at Asunción. Other branches probably exist across the center of South America.

    Almost all Pan-American sections in Gran Buenos Aires are modern and fast main highways

    Brazil and Uruguay[edit]

    A continuation of the Pan-American Highway to the Brazilian cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro uses a ferry from Buenos Aires to Colonia inUruguay and Uruguay Highway 1 to Montevideo. Uruguay Highway 9 and Brazil Highway 471 route to near Pelotas, from where Brazil Highway 116leads to Brazilian main cities.
    Guyana, Suriname, and French Guyana[edit]

    The highway does not have official segments to Belize, Guyana, Surinameand French Guiana, nor to any of the island nations in the Americas. However, highways from Venezuela link to Brazilian Trans-Amazonian highway that provide a southwest entrance to Guyana, route to the coast, and follow a coastal route through Suriname to French Guiana.
    The West Indies Section[edit]

    Plans have been discussed for including the West Indies in the Pan American Highway system. According to these, a system of ferries would be established to connect terminal points of the highway. Travelers would then be able to ferry from Key West to Havana, drive to the eastern tip of Cuba, ferry to Haiti, drive through Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and ferry again to Puerto Rico. Included in this system would also be a ferry from the western tip of Cuba to the Yucatán Peninsula. Mexico has already surveyed a route which will run across the Yucatán, Campeche, and Chiapas to San Cristobal de Las Casas, on the Pan American Highway. ("The Pan American Highway System" by Travel Division Pan American Union, Washington D.C. October 1947)
    Art and culture[edit]

    The Pan-American highway is the subject of a 2006 conceptual art piece, The School of Panamerican Unrest, where Mexican-born artist Pablo Helguera is attempting to drive a portable schoolhouse for the length of the entire route.[citation needed]
    The travel writer Tim Cahill wrote a book, Road Fever, about his record-setting 24-day drive fromUshuaia in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay in the U.S. state of Alaska with professional long-distance driver Garry Sowerby, much of their route following the Pan-American Highway.[14]
    In the British motoring show Top Gear, the presenters drove on a section of the road in their off-road vehicles in the Bolivian Special.
    In 2003, Kevin Sanders, a long-distance rider, broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest traversal of the highway by motorcycle in 34 days.[15]
    Photo gallery[edit]


    • The northern end of the Pan-American Highway atDeadhorse, Alaska



    • Car on Pan-American Highway. Shown in front ofTorres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile.



    • Pan-American Highway through San Martin, El Salvador.



    • Another view of the Pan-American Highway in El Salvador.



    • Pan-American Highway in El Salvador between Lourdes and Santa Ana; this flat 1.5 km wide straight section can be used as an airstrip and it was used during El Salvador Civil War.



    • Pan-American Highway in Tres Rios, Costa Rica, right before the toll plaza (about 337 more km to go until the Panamanian border).



    • Panamericana – Pan American Highway – in Pichincha, Ecuador, near Cashapamba



    • Panamericana – northern Peru near Pacasmayo



    • Panamericana near Puerto De Lomas, Peru



    • Panamericana in the Atacama Desert northern Chile

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