You bought a very expensive car, and you are going out on a joyride. Then you encounter a road that has terrible pavement. The road is filled with potholes, and road patches. […]
Roadscapes Wednesday: Road Diets: Designing A Safer Street
Cities all across America are taking 4-lane streets and reducing the size to a 3-lane street, two through lanes and a center turn lane. Over the course of the 20th century, the car […]
Roadscapes Wednesday: CityWalk BHAM Proposed Park In Downtown Birmingham
UPDATE: This post is written by Michael Sznajderman from Alabama NewsCenter. Learn more at: http://alabamanewscenter.com CityWalk BHAM – that’s the working title for a proposed, mile-long linear park underneath the soon-to-be rebuilt Interstate 59/20 elevated […]
Roadscapes Wednesday: Roadtrip USA 19,000 Mile Timelapse
If you had the time and money, would you complete a 19,000 mile roadtrip around the United States? That is what Bastian Knoop did. A group completed the long roadtrip, and went to these […]
Roadscapes: Beach Travel Boosts Traffic On One Alabama Highway
UPDATE: This post is written by Gilbert Nicholson from Alabama NewsCenter. Learn more at: http://alabamanewscenter.com It’s summer vacation time and people are excited about going to the beach. Well, not everybody. “I dread it,” […]
Roadscapes Wednesday: Why Are Stop Signs Exactly The Same In Every Country
If you travel around the world, and drive on roads in a different country, do you ever notice that the stop sign is the same? Sure, some countries use their own language […]
Roadscapes: Traffic Lights Need A Battery Backup
Whenever the power goes out, like after a storm, sometimes that might also mean the traffic lights go dark as well. As the law, when a traffic light intersection is dark or […]
Roadscapes Wednesday: The New Highway To The Arctic Ocean
For the people who live way up in the Northwest Territories in Canada, the only ways in and out were by air, sea, or ice roads during the Winter. But now, Canada […]
Roadscapes Wednesday: The Best Map Of A City / The Nolli Map Of Rome
On this Roadscapes post, let’s talk about a map. Before GPS systems and the internet, you had to rely on a paper map to know where to go. Technology today has made […]
Roadscapes Wednesday: Pictures Of The New Jacksonville Alabama Traffic Lights
Recently, Jacksonville replaced all the traffic light intersections along AL-21 or Pelham Road. Before, each intersection was the standard Alabama design. A steel pole with an overhead light in each corner, with […]
