Western Extension

Western Extension is generally used for any westward expansion of a road, rail line or populated place. It may also have one of the following meanings:

  • The Western Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike
  • Western Extension of a Maryland railroad
  • South Carolina Western Extension Railway
  • Western Extension Area

Famous quotes containing the words western and/or extension:

    “One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fibre of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardy.”
    —Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)

    “The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity’s language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity’s disappearance.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)