Driving through Time features roughly 2700 photographs and 76 interactive maps of the Blue Ridge Parkway. The website allows students, researchers, and digital tourists to uncover hidden stories, hear forgotten voices, and understand the often wrenching choices that the construction and preservation of a scenic parkway in a populated region have necessarily entailed.
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posted by netbros
on Jan 22, 2012 -
4 comments
The BBC has
put up a page presenting statistics dealing with deaths on British roads between 1999 and 2010. A slightly older page presenting mostly the same statistics (up to 2008) can be visited
here; this earlier version was published in conjunction with several other articles, including
one looking in-depth at a single crash and its aftermath in Stevenage in 2007.
posted by Dim Siawns
on Dec 28, 2011 -
13 comments
The American Festivals Project takes you along on two guys'
National Geographic-funded 2008 tour of the "small, hidden, and bizarre"
festivals celebrated all over the United States. Through photos,
video, and a
blog, discover
Rattlesnake Roundup,
Okie noodling, an American
Fasnacht, the
Idiotarod, and
plenty more.
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posted by Miko
on Feb 17, 2011 -
23 comments
Roadside Architecture. "I have been passionate about commercial architecture and roadside related things all my life. I grew up in California but New York City has been my home since 1980. I started this website in 2000 simply as a way to organize my own photos. Since then, it has become a bit of an obsession and grown to well over 1,000 pages."
flickr.
blog.
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posted by mwhybark
on Apr 14, 2009 -
11 comments
"Road Trip is a short film composed of 12,397 pictures taken automatically from the back seat of a car while driving accross [sic] America from Portland, Oregon to New Hampshire."
posted by dersins
on Dec 28, 2007 -
34 comments
Virginia woman could get 2 years in prison for throwing McDonald's bag - a jury in Stafford County, Virginia has recommended a two-year prison sentence for Jessica Julia Hall, a 25-year-old mother of three, for throwing a bag with a soft drink inside into the car next to her. She was convicted of a felony offense after getting into an altercation with another driver on
I-95 between Fredericksburg, VA and Washington, DC - widely considered to be one of the most congested stretches of
road on the East Coast. Anyone who drives in the DC area can tell you how
overcrowded the highways are. It gets worse in the summer when the tempratures rise and
tempers flare. This could be an example of excessive justice, or perhaps juries in this area
have had enough.
posted by smoothvirus
on Jan 5, 2007 -
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The 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy — Take a
28 year old future
U.S. President on a two month long, 3,251 mile, transcontinental
road trip (where relatively
few have gone before). Wait while he shoulders a little
responsibility, add some
autobahn^ envy, and 37 years later he
signs into law over 40,000 miles of the
National Defense Highway System (later
renamed: it recently passed
50 years of growth.) About his
favorite domestic program, Ike said, "
More than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America. ...Its impact on the American economy - the jobs it would produce in manufacturing and construction, the rural areas it would open up - was beyond calculation." More documents, logs, and first-hand reports from the 1919 convoy
here.
posted by cenoxo
on Jul 12, 2006 -
27 comments
Local governments in Colorado have agreed to deliberately impede traffic on existing highways near a toll road in order to protect the toll roads' investors.
Article includes examples of similar public/private "cooperation" in Virginia and California.
posted by Kwantsar
on Aug 17, 2005 -
30 comments
Southwest: an exquisite gallery of photos by three friends on the road, including shots of
Bryce,
Antelope, and
The Wave. The web has done wonderful things to that old phenomenon of vacation photos.
posted by alms
on May 7, 2003 -
26 comments
