Category: Roadscapes Stuff

If you love road and infrastructure content, this is the category for everything roads and infrastructure!  Home to the Roadscapes Wednesday segment.

Roadscapes Wednesday: The 10 Longest Tunnels In The World

Like bridges, tunnels are a modern day engineering marvel, even though humans have been boring them for thousands of years. In the past, we hewed tunnels out of massive rock faces with chisels […]

Roadscapes Wednesday: Eight Amazing Road Inventions

There have been plenty of great inventions that have come to our roads and highways.  The YouTube channel Freeze Lists highlights eight amazing road inventions from electronic rails to smart speed bumps.  Enjoy […]

Roadscapes Wednesday: What’s The Most Dangerous Road In The World

So, which road is the most dangerous to drive on?  The YouTube channel RealLifeLore compared the data and tells you which road in the world is the most dangerous.  Enjoy below!

Roadscapes Wednesday: Video Of The Natchez Trace Parkway

This week, let’s feature a video from the Natchez Trace Parkway in Tennessee.  The northern end of the parkway features a long and beautiful bridge over Tennessee Route 96.  Enjoy a scenic Fall […]

Roadscapes Wednesday: Why The New Baldwin County Bridge Is A Stupid And Dumb Idea

On this Roadscapes, I want to talk about a project from the Alabama Department of Transportation that seems very fishy. You see, ALDOT wants to spend up to $100 million dollars to build […]

Roadscapes Wednesday: Roads Made From Recycled Plastic Waste Could Be the Future

Currently roads are paved with asphalt or cured by concrete.  But, could roads in the future be installed with recycled waste?  Mashable went to the Netherlands to take a look at plastic […]

Roadscapes Wednesday: Let’s Make Mass Transit Free

So should mass transit be free?  The YouTube channel City Beautiful talks about why all mass transit should be free.  This idea of free mass transit is not as crazy as you might […]

Roadscapes Wednesday: The Dumb Self-Driving School Bus Idea

Would you let your child ride on a self-driving school bus travelling at only 8 mph?  A pilot program ran by Transdev had an electric shuttle take a group of elementary-aged children to school […]

Roadscapes Wednesday: Bridge Troubles In Texas And Arkansas

It’s been a bad week to be a bridge.  In the first video clip below, a bridge carrying FM 2900 in Kingsland, TX collapsed from record flooding on the Llano River.  The […]

Roadscapes Wednesday: Hurricane Michael Evacuations In Panama City

Hurricane Michael is a major hurricane and is about to be one of the strongest hurricanes to make landfall along the Florida Panhandle.  One thing that makes a evacuation harder is the […]