After decades of planning, more than two years of construction and an outdoor ceremony amid the bracing Nebraska winter Wednesday morning, Lincoln's South Beltway is, at last, open to traffic. The ...

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Wednesday, cars, pickups, vans, buses and, especially trucks, will begin circling south of Lincoln on the South Beltway, as a decades-long Capitol City transportation dream comes true six months early ...