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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 01 > Commercial rest areas or no rest areas at all?

Commercial rest areas or no rest areas at all?

That’s the dilemma many states are having to consider as they face their budget woes

By Richard Simon / The Bulletin
September 1, 2009

WASHINGTON " Which will it be: fewer places to stop on the highway to catch 40 winks, or fast-food galore at rest areas? That's the choice facing Congress as it considers whether to relax a decades-old ban on businesses along the nation's interstates.

The restriction was instituted during....

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