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Ummm…OK…. Seen at The Consumerist: Ankeny, Iowa is a suburb of Des Moines. It’s like any other town — except for one important distinction. City crews are out spreading garlic salt on the streets. The garlic salt, which would have ended up in a landfill if it hadn’t been donated by Tone Brothers Inc., a local spice [...] 
On her blog at the Courant, Loretta Waldman has posted pictures of a proposed overpass for the US44 / Route 10 intersection at the foot of Avon Mountain. The intersection is infamous as the site of a couple of spectacular crashes in the past few years, due to trucks’ brakes failing on the steep downgrade. This [...] 
Well, it’s the end of a road, anyway: (View in Google Maps) This is the intersection of Colorado Avenue and Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, California. Passing underneath the intersection is California Highway 1. Just to the northeast is the official western end of I-10, and extending to the southwest is the Santa Monica Pier. This site [...] 
Treehugger ran the following photo of an entertaining bike lane in Amsterdam:
Even though Hong Kong has been returned to China for over a decade now, the autonomy granted to the Hong Kong S.A.R. means that the border between mainland China and the former British Colony still functions like an international border. Consider, for example the Lok Ma Chau ( 落馬洲) border crossing: (View in Google Maps) To [...]
We go to Brazil this week: (View in Google Maps) This is a section of SP-160, the Rodovia dos Imigrantes (“Immigrants Highway”), a toll expressway connecting São Paulo with the Atlantic coastal cities of São Vicente and Praia Grande, descending 800 meters in elevation down the Serra do Mar in the process. Due to the volume of [...]
Via CaHwyGuy’s Livejournal, I found this odd story in the Los Angeles Times: For 10 days now, a sagging house parked on the freeway’s northbound shoulder in the Cahuenga Pass has had people gawking — and talking.[...] Richardson, 45, of Castaic, obtained a permit from Caltrans to transport the oversize load on the freeway. Instead of taking [...] 
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 [...]
A post on DGlenn’s Livejournal alerted me to the addition of a major “road” to the Google Maps database. See this set of directions as an example. (Note step 59.)
For this week, I thought I’d offer this fun stretch of street in San Francisco:
Lombard Street, the crookedest street in the world. I’m featuring it here for no good reason other than my enjoying visiting San Francisco, and that it was featured in a Pepsi commercial with some entertaining SFX. This block of Lombard Street features eight [...] |
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