It's easy to take interstate highways for granted these days. Sometimes we even associating them with traffic, ugly construction, and even lower quality of life. But there was a time when the lack of a freeway system kept people and things from getting where they were supposed to go.
Plane Lands On Atlanta's I-85 In Middle Of Rush Hour
A single-engine plane just landed on I-85 near Atlanta. Doesn't the pilot know it's rush hour? [WSBTV]
How To Beat Traffic With Math
Tired of being stuck in traffic? One writer broke down his daily Houston commute using a year's worth of detailed data and inferential statistics, and determined how to beat local traffic using nothing but math.. — Ed.
Dung Never Sleeps
The excrement of avians is not being ruled out as a factor in the collapse of the I-35 bridge on the River Mississippi in the Twin Cities. Apparently, pigeon dung, when dried, exudes salts. Salts which corrode steel and wear away concrete. Years back, grates were installed on the bridge's structure to discourage…
Civilization Collapses! Illogical Highway Numbering Alert: I-238
You know how Dwight D's Interstate Highway system is supposed to have a logical numbering system for all the roads, so that, like, logic prevails? So a rational man can tell where he's going and what kind of road he's on? Well, tell it to the com-symp operatives- no doubt in the pay of the Red Army- who slapped the…
America's First Freeway: The 110
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You Gotta Keep That Diesel Truckin'...At 70 in Texas
While the new 80mph speed limit went into effect in Tejas last week in time for Memorial Day travel, the big rig boys are being held to 70mph on the Lone Star State's rural Eisenhower roads. Stop, children, what's that noise? It's the sound of black Trans Am sales spiking from Fort Stockton to Ozona.
Texas to Raise I-10 Speed Limit?
Interesting things about I-10 in West Texas: Exit 420 is Baker Road. The Super 8 in Ozona — a town in which we were vaguely threatened by inbred, meth-addled freaks while driving the So-Cal Speed Shop's Plymouth Prowler to Houston — has the nicest Super 8 Motel the world may ever see. And well, that's about it.…
