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 Crossing Chesapeake Bay on the CBBT
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This sounds like a few folks being confused by some weird mix of plans for I-69 and the Texas Transportation Corridor. From The Caucus: Is there a secret plan being hatched by the federal government to construct a NAFTA super-highway from Mexico straight through to Canada, stopping off in Kansas City? Alongside immigration and Iraq, [...] 
For this week’s Highway Feature, I thought I’d do something a little different Route 128 (known as I-95 outside New England) is an overcrowded generally 6-lane urban/suburban freeway between Route 9 and Route 24 during rush hour. Rather than widen the road, the local powers-that-be decided to permit drivers to use the shoulder (the “breakdown [...]
Inhabitat today posted links to a couple of intriguing alternative power generation ideas for readers’ consideration. First, there’s the idea of mounting windmill-like turbine blades on gantries over freeways, to take advantage of the energy of turbulence generated by fast-moving traffic on the roadway beneath. Then, there’s the concept of putting wind-turbines in [...]
This week, we’ll go to the east side of New York:
You’re looking at the F.D.R. Drive on the east side of Manhattan, at 37th Street, near the portal to the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, and just a bit to the south of the U.N. Construction on the FDR began in the 1930’s, but continued into the 1960’s, with [...] |
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