Welcome to Roadscapes Wednesday, each week this post will talk about roads and infrastructure related topics. I am called the “road geek” for a good reason, I love roads and love talking […]
Here is a cool video showing the evolution of traffic from the 1890’s to today. Yes, there is some video that exists way back to the 1890’s. Also, you can see how […]
Want to see some amazing Atlanta street footage? Freeway Jim shows off a route through Downtown, Midtown, and the Buckhead areas of Atlanta on a Saturday morning with light traffic and great […]
Post written by Chuck Chandler for Alabama NewsCenter Truckin’ is an American tradition, the subject of Eddie Kendricks and Grateful Dead tunes, a Robert Crump cartoon character strutting confidently across the continent, […]
Google Street View has mapped so many roads across our planet. I love going onto Street View when I’m bored and just randomly go to a place and look at their roads. […]
Yep, this is interesting. In a towns of Stanstead, Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont, comes a road where the border runs down the middle of the road. One side of houses is in […]
Gotta love ALDOT, and the contractors that work for them. This week, crews installed a new BGS (Big Green Sign) over I-20 West / I-59 South before the I-65 junction. Never mind […]
As part of the “Special Project” I am currently working on, I was flown to Boston, MA. And as many know, I am a roadgeek. And one of the top roadgeek spots […]
In the world of traffic engineering, there is a new type of intersection that is starting to pop up in more places. This new type of intersection is called a diverging diamond. […]
We all encounter it, traffic! Some days, traffic is good, but on other days, traffic is a nightmare. If you get stuck in some traffic jam, you might ask yourself why can’t […]
