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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 ...
A sign honoring a former convict who was executed for killing a police officer was up for several months in 2022. MoDOT is reviewing the program.
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.
As of July 1, 2003, Virginia law has banned these memorials. Transportation officials have deemed them a threat to the safety of motorists. [17] Virginia law §33.2-216 prohibits any person from installing a memorial on any highway controlled by the VDOT without a permit. VDOT will install a roadside memorial sign, normally for a period of two ...
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.
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LWCC members met frequently to write and mail postcards to voters in the 1st and 4th Congressional Districts of Virginia in support of favored candidates. In the 2018 Virginia mid-term elections , candidates supported by this program were Chesterfield County Commonwealth's Attorney candidate Scott Miles, incumbent Senator Tim Kaine ; and House ...
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 ...