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    Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure

    Every Other Road In Virginia Is Under Water

    This Is The Road You Drive On

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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    11/20/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    I already have plenty of reasons to want to visit Japan. Now I have at least three more!
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    11/20/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure

    World's longest bridge over water that's covered by ice for part of the year
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/20/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    Don't forget the Big Dig in Boston. Using federal money for a local project, your tax dollars hard at work...for someone else! Thanks, guys.

    And right after it opened, it started breaking, and leaking, and squashing people in their cars. Way to pick the lowest bidder! Your tax money hard at...oh, forget it.

    I guess this was really a page for awe-inspiring and aesthetically remarkable structures, not aw-hell inspiring, underground structures.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/20/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    In the States we seem to save our most remarkable infrastructural efforts for bridges.

    My personal favorite, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. It's damned long - I can't remember exactly how long, but you're on it long enough to get tired of it, I think over ten miles - and in at least one spot you dive under the water for a mile or so. Because of ships, you know. They can't dive to go under the bridge.

    One wonders - wouldn't it have been cheaper to make the bridge taller for a while? Then the ships could go under. No need for bilge pumps and vent fans. Just saying.
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    I nominate Jalopnik's hiring of Sam Smith as World's Best Hire of 2009!
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    11/20/09

    @Maxichamp: I am happy to see that the check I sent you cleared. Carry on.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    Hey, wait a minute!

    Since when is New York City the greatest city in the world?
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    Image of cityag cityag
    11/19/09

    @pauljones: since they totally re-built the triboro bridge without shutting it down.
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    11/19/09

    @cityag: And?
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    11/20/09

    @pauljones: Since you can search for pron shops on Times Square billboards using your Droid phone.
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    11/20/09

    @brandegee: Okay, that's just hilarious.

    #tips
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    Image of Clown Shoe Pilot Clown Shoe Pilot
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure

    Another totally awesome bit of infrastructure - the Millau Viaduct in France.

    It's fairly long and crazy tall.

    Edit: dangit. Mr Dude beat me to it, but not by name, only by image
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    Image of area_educator area_educator
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    No Glenwood Canyon? (I-70 iirc, in CO)
    Gorgeous interstate, en engineering marvel.
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    Image of ThurstonPartridge ThurstonPartridge
    11/19/09

    @area_educator: While it's sure is fun to drive up there, and it is an engineering marvel, there's nothing pretty about it. It's typical 70/80's style concrete.
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    11/20/09

    @ThurstonPartridge: SOrry, I misspoke-- I meant it's a gorgeous drive. You're right, the structures themselves are nothing special
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure

    We've come a long way, baby!
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    11/19/09

    @skaycog.2000: Maybe, but that's an engineering marvel, too.
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    11/19/09

    @Alfisted: The Model T....absolutely.
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    Image of Mr. M Mr. M
    11/19/09

    @skaycog.2000: Eh, sort of. That looks like what I do for fun on weekends...
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/20/09

    @skaycog.2000: Mmm, tasty. I lurves big four-cylinders.

    Granted, the T's output per cubic inch was, shall we say, modest.
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    11/20/09

    @Mr. M: You must live rurally? Or are you a mud racer?
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    Image of Mr. M Mr. M
    11/20/09

    @skaycog was here: No, I just own a Jeep. I live in the city, but its nice to get out and camp and go drive some trails. Sometimes it rains though, and it starts looking like your picture there...
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    All impressive, especially the ramp through the office building, but two were left off.

    I-70 from just west of Golden to say, Parachute. Interstate, yeah, but amazing interstate, and it's difficult to put those two words in the same paragraph, much less the same sentence.

    And instead of the Bush/Tollway bit, the High Five, which is nearby, is a better bit of freeway engineering. Take a major freeway interchange, one six-lane (LBJ), one inexplicably-small four-lane (Central Distressway), a mess of cloverleafs designed while having a bad acid trip, and make it into a five-level, positively huge, yet functional, interchange which manages to work pretty well...assuming you haven't been gone in the decade it was built. If you were, it's understandable how easy it is to overlook the fact planning to exit in the general vicinity requires a few miles of advance planning.
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    Image of che-che che-che
    11/19/09

    @that ain't the way to have fun, son: yup. thought that would have gotten in here. Hi-5 started at the same time i started to go to school. and by the time i was done it was done aswell. i drove from arapaho to park ln in north dallas. so i got to see build up. pretty quick and clean job. my favorite part was the north bound lane on 75. had a huge dip before you get to 635. i was always up late at school so i didnt get home till 2 a.m. and there was always some schmuck speeding down that area, and take that dip and loose it. made my night everytime! esepcially pick ups, that ass end come of the ground and spin the truck around. good times!
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    11/19/09

    @che-che: Yeah, I remember quite well the "traffic lights" at the end of the 100 foot long, if that, ramps. There were only a couple left by the time I started driving, but even as a kid, it was borderline terrifying...gotta love malaise-era acceleration!

    It's a wonder more didn't die on Central.

    #tips
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    Image of Clown Shoe Pilot Clown Shoe Pilot
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    the GWB/Tollway interchange is pretty good, but it's not the coolest interchange in the Dallas area. Check out the High Five - a 5 level interchange with 37 bridges.
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    Image of Hopman Hopman
    11/19/09

    @Clown Shoe Pilot: 37? In a row? (see if you can guess the movie reference.)
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    11/19/09

    @Hopman: damn it! i'm not even supposed to be here today!
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    Image of area_educator area_educator
    11/19/09

    @Hopman: Try not to change any lanes on your way through the parking lot!
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    Image of Clown Shoe Pilot Clown Shoe Pilot
    11/19/09

    @Hopman: EZ. It's Clerks. I went to a Kevin Smith Q&A just 2 weeks ago.
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    Image of Hopman Hopman
    11/19/09

    @Clown Shoe Pilot: You lucky dog! If he'd drag his butt up to Boston and I had the cash, I'd love to see one of his Q&A's. Heck at one time, I even worked in a video store. That job would've been great if it weren't for the bleepin' customers.
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure

    Non? It's got all the criteria: cars, fish eye lens.
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    11/19/09


    @mr_dude:
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    11/19/09


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    Image of Matthew Liang Chaboud Matthew Liang Chaboud
    11/19/09

    @mr_dude:
    Plus it was designed (in part) by Norman Foster, and it is the tallest car-carrying bridge in the world.

    Seriously, guys, read more.
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    11/19/09


    @mr_dude:
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    11/19/09

    @Matthew Liang Chaboud: They're well read, plus it was featured on a Top Gear so I'm sure it was an intentional omission.
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    @mr_dude:
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    11/19/09

    @mr_dude: Is that the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel? I was thinking of that one.
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    11/19/09

    @Jeb_Hoge: Yeah, though I think there are some others that have a much smaller surface footprint and thereby look way trippier.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    Okay, can anyone tell me why there is an Interstate in Hawaii?
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    Image of wkiernan wkiernan
    11/19/09

    @Alfisted: So Colonel Eisenhower could drive a convoy from San Francisco, obviously.
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    11/19/09

    @Alfisted: As soon as you explain Rhode Island.
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    11/19/09

    @Alfisted: I was just thinking the same thing. That damn thing better go all the way to Santa Cruz.
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    Image of Smitty Smitty
    11/19/09

    @Alfisted: Whyfo' get intastate highway in Hawaii-ne, oh you lolo haole, so can use da kala from da uncle, da guy name Sam!

    I no pooshin' you leg brah, no call 'em 'intastate, no get da fed kine dollah.

    Garans!
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    Image of mr_dude mr_dude
    11/19/09

    @Smitty: And it attracts more Hawaii military brats like Smitty!
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    11/19/09

    @Alfisted: Paid for by federal $$ so it is given the nomenclature Interstate.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    11/19/09

    @Smitty: Thanks for setting a haole straight, brah.
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    11/19/09

    In reply to Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure
    Holy crap! I think that's my car on the George Bush!

    Not really, but I do drive over that twice a day. Way less impressive at eye level.

    Incidentally, it has gotten a lot harder to navigate in Texas since we named every other freakin' road after George Bush or Ronald Reagan.
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    Image of whiplashchick whiplashchick
    11/19/09

    @snapoversteer 'bout to get told: I'm with you. Driving that interchange twice a day lessens it's impact. Plus, I think the High Five is more dramatic. And prettier.
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    11/19/09

    @whiplashchick: And it doesn't work worth a damn, which I guess makes it more like art.
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    Image of Buster Brew Buster Brew
    11/19/09

    @snapoversteer 'bout to get told: Like Peachtree in Atlanta no doubt.
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    11/13/09

    In reply to Every Other Road In Virginia Is Under Water

    Will this sort of thing be useful then? #roads
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