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Unused highway
An unused highway is a highway or highway ramp that was partially or fully constructed, but went unused or was later closed or part of a future expansion. An unused roadway or ramp may often be referred to as an abandoned road, ghost road, highway to nowhere, stub ramp, ghost ramp, ski jump, stub street, stub-out, or simply stub.
[An unused section of divided highway approaching Interstate 189 in Burlington, Vermont (looking southward from:
44.44917°N, -73.2175°W); some lanes are now blocked by discarded electronics; VTDOT has since begun work to make this segment part of Champlain Parkway. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Ghostrampbtv.JPG]
Examples
Some examples of reasons for unused highways include:
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