http://www.metafilter.com/tags/freeways Posts tagged with 'freeways' at MetaFilter. Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:02:22 -0800 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:02:22 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/75225/Freeways%2DWithout%2DFutures The Congress for the New Urbanism has just released <a href="http://www.cnu.org/highways/freewayswithoutfutures">Freeways Without Future</a>, their top-10 list of aging highways that should be demolished in favor of city-friendly boulevards. <em>"There's a whole generation of elevated highways in cities that are at the end of their design life,"</em> <a href="http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/09/ten-highways-to.html">says John Norquist</a>, head of the <a href="http://www.cnu.org/cnu_news">Congress for the New Urbanism</a>. <em>"Instead of rebuilding them at enormous expense, cities have an opportunity to undo what proved to be major urban-planning blunder."</em> Take that, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses">Robert</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001F51WKQ/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Moses</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.75225 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:02:22 -0800 boulevards congressfornewurbanism freeways highways janejacobs newurbanism robertmoses urbanplanning Afroblanco http://www.metafilter.com/36583/Road%2Dsigns <a href="http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~jlin/">Highway Route Markers</a> collects highway signs from around the world. <a href="http://www.upstatenyroads.com/">The Upstate New York Roads Site</a> lists (and reproduces) every exit sign for many of the state's freeways. Let me reiterate: Every. Exit. Sign. The net has something for everyone, even those of us with an unhealthy obsession with road signs. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.36583 Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:34:09 -0800 freeways highways roadgeeking roadsigns mcwetboy