Mountain Passes can be tricky things to travel through, especially during the winter months in the north. There are often not too many services or communities available in these regions and sometimes they don’t get a lot of traffic either so it can be a long time before help arrives too. Occassionally, it is necessary [...]
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New advancements in technology can make traveling different in a number of ways. In recent years, electronic tolling has really taken off in a number of areas. Some people like and others don’t, but here are the three main benefits of electronic tolling. #1 – One Account Fits All Motorists can set up prepaid accounts [...]
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Is there an Adopt-A-Highway program in your area? Chances are that there is. Adopt-A-Highway programs allow citizens, groups, and businesses to get out and pick up litter on sections of highway that they have signed up for. These programs are administered at the state, county, and local levels in many areas and offer a number [...]
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Okay, so you live in a snowy area. So you don’t have to shovel your walks, you got a brand new snowblower. Its bigger than your neighbor’s snowblower, it may even be the biggest snowblower on your block, but is it this big? This is an example of a snowblower that some departments of transportation [...]
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The Yunga Road The Yunga Road in Bolivia is generally considered to be the most dangerous road in the world. It was actually named this by the Inter-American Development Bank in 1995. The road is some 65km in length and hugs a cliff wall on one side while the other side experiences drop offs of [...]
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Culverts placed under roadways, whether county, city, or state highways are designed to allow the drainage of land to occur while maintaining transportation viability. A less thought of purpose for culverts is to allow fish migration up streams to their spawning grounds. Culverts are a benefit in this way, as without them roadways would block [...]
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High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes are lanes on specific roadways that are designated for multiple passenger vehicles. Some areas require there to be three or more passengers in a vehicle while others require two or more passengers be in a vehicle to qualify as a car pool or high occupancy vehicle. But, what is the [...]
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The Rest Areas Of The New Jersey Turnpike The State of New Jersey often names its rest areas after famous people who were born, lived, or worked in the state. This is a most unusual tradition that most people, some even local to the area, aren’t aware of. The rest areas of the New Jersey [...]
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With rumors of being more damaging to roadways, the environment, and the vehicles that drive on them; let’s clear the record regarding the chemicals used in the removal of snow and ice from winter roads. The modern chemicals used today have passed stringent environmental and safety testing and have been found to far exceed the [...]
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It is hard to imagine traveling across the United States without the freeway system, but that is exactly what was done prior to the late 1950’s. In 1956, Presided Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act which resulted in our current freeway system. The act was designed to cost $25 billion dollars and create 41,000 [...]
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