The parallel military highway remained open, but was characterised as a very slow and inefficient supply line due to the roughness of the road.
Vandaleur regained control and continued westward through the marshes toward a parallel highway five miles distant.
Alexandria and Cairo are joined by two separate, roughly parallel highways called the Desert Road and the Agricultural Road.
Part of the extension has been built in the late 1920s as part of MD 233, a parallel highway that extended east to the county line near Aquasco.
In 1954, United Fruit had to divest following an antitrust suit and in 1959, a parallel highway caused a serious competitive pressure.
Above all, the parallel federal highway 462 was increasingly competitive with the Murg Valley Railway.
By 1953 the War was over, construction of the dam was complete, a drought was plaguing tobacco territory, and parallel highways in southern Virginia were being improved.
MD 832 replaced MD 32 on the highway in 1978, one year before the parallel highway became MD 140.
Repeated efforts by the state's Department of Transportation to widen Route 7 or build a parallel limited-access highway have met resistance for more than two decades.
It is a parallel highway to Illinois 116 to the north and U.S. Route 136 to its south.