Hundreds of truck drivers parked their trucks along the highways of Pennsylvania in a strike meant to show the government and their fellow citizens that they’re fed up with high fuel prices. The high cost of diesel means that some truck drivers spend over $1200 to fill up their tanks. While much of this rise [...]
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Historical Highway Tidbits As bad as traffic can be these days, imagine what it would be like if there were no freeway or highway systems. Freeways and highways benefit both urban and rural areas by lifting the heavy thru-traffic off of the local roads and decreasing the burden on the local people and infrastructure. Here [...]
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There are transport ferries of all kinds around the United States. Some carry people and some carry people and their vehicles. Most are small operations of one or two ferries, some are sightseeing businesses, and some are owned and operated by state and local governments. With 26 vessels and 20 terminals throughout the Puget Sound [...]
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Exploring Interstate 90, The Nation’s Longest Interstate Freeway Interstate 90, commonly referred to as I-90, stretches from Boston, Massachusetts to Seattle, Washington, over 3,000 miles – and all of it is non-stop driving if that is what you want. No stoplights, no cross streets, and no designed delays at all. I-90 runs through thirteen different [...]
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One of the shortest stretches of Interstate Highway is Interstate 705 (I-705) located in Washington State. Opened in 1990, I-705 connects I-5 with downtown Tacoma. Officially I-705 is listed as an Interstate Highway even though it is only 1.5 miles in length. View the I-705 traffic camera here.
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