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Article: Washington State Highway Rest Areas May Host Businesses.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- June 25, 2003
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By Jane Hodges, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 25--MARYSVILLE, Wash.--Highway rest areas with restaurants and gas stations are common on the New Jersey Turnpike but unheard of in Washington state.
Under President Bush's proposed highway-reauthorization bill, though, interstate rest areas could start sharing space with those businesses and hotels.
The bill, introduced last month, would invite states to allow businesses at rest areas, effectively reversing a 1960 ban on commercializing rest areas along interstates that receive federal money. Washington, Arizona, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Vermont have ...