But four new traffic lights have been installed on the eight-mile stretch of Route 2 in North Stonington, from Exit 92 of I-95 to the casino, to regulate the increased traffic.
The eight-mile stretch from Interstate 393 northward to the track took one driver an hour, and that was four hours before the start of the race.
Cleanup efforts on the eight-mile stretch of river that snakes through the heart of the Bronx began in the 1990s.
In its investigation, the attorney general's office found that sewage was carried by 17 storm pipes scattered along the river's eight-mile stretch through Yonkers.
Antoine was cagey about where he sells his wares: Midtown, he said, which he defined as the eight-mile stretch between 86th Street and Fulton Street.
We lived out childhood fantasies: matching our horses in full-out races on a mountain track, sighting tin cans down the barrel of a Remington rifle, cantering for eight-mile stretches over rough country.
For decades, the eight-mile stretch of river that winds through the Bronx often seemed like a trough for collecting carcasses of automobiles and tires.
Many of the village's lodgings, retail shops, restaurants and watering holes are clustered along the eight-mile stretch of Mountain Road between the village and the ski area, called simply "the hill" by locals.
This eight-mile stretch is arguably the most dangerous stretch of interstate highway in Alabama.
The posted speed limit in this eight-mile stretch is 55 mph.