Welcome to the Roadscapes Wednesday segment! Each week here on Geek Alabama, Roadscapes Wednesday will feature roads and infrastructure related topics. Geek Alabama Editor / Publisher Nathan Young is often called the “road geek” for a good reason, Nathan loves roads and loves talking about roads!

The Merritt Parkway, one of America’s first freeways, is more a showcase of landscape architecture than it is traffic engineering. But the Interstate highways built two decades later are ugly by comparison. Why did America give up on art and beauty?

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