Content tagged with “roads”

“ For a couple of decades, there was a bus service from London to Calcutta, India. It took almost two months. ”

“ Uber drivers in London are embarking on a multi-year journey to pass the black cabbie test, whcih requires them to memorize most of the street in London. ”

“ A group of Wikipedia editors broke off, and the reasons why give an interesting look into how Wikipedia works, and how different people and subjects can come into conflict. ”

“ There’s actually a lot of information embedded an interstate highway’s number. ”

“ To test road surfaces, there’s a massive rotating machine in France that simulates years of tires traveling over the road. ”

“ The tiny subculture of coast-to-coast racers is accusing one of their own of faking a record run. ”

“ Road barriers have been refined over decades of testing, trial, and error. There’s a lot more complication involved in their design than you might think. ”

“ Twice a week, a van makes a 16-hour, 500-mile drive from Fairbanks, Alaska, north to the Prudhoe Bay oil fields. ”

“ In the 1920s, people kept smashing a traffic light in an Irish neighborhood because they objected to green being the bottom color. As a result, it is now the only ‘upside-down traffic light’ in America. ”

“ There are places where the original wagon wheel ruts from covered wagons in the late 1800s have remained undisturbed and are still visible. ”

“ Lack of road traffic has allowed the record for fastest cross-country run to be broken five times in seven weeks. It’s been lowered to a level likely only possible during a pandemic. ”

“ For a few years now, Ford has had headlights that use GPS to know when the road ahead is curving, then turn the beam to illuminate what’s around the bend. ”

“ The details of a wildly irresponsible Cannonball run across the United States, from NYC to LA. They averaged 103mph. ”

“ This short video of a landing at Gibraltar International Airport shows the only way a tiny, narrow country can fit an airport runway – by bisecting an active city street, at which cars have to wait for the landing plane to cross (at 0:43 in the video). ”

“ A small town in West Virginia was tired of being ignored for funding by their state, so, in the middle of the Cold War, they appealed to the Soviet Union for funding. A representative from the USSR actually visited to vet the request before the state finally relented. ”

“ A good explainer on the phenomenon of induced demand, when creating more of a resource to alleviate a shortage doesn’t work because demand simply increases to match the supply. ”

“ There’s a low bridge in North Carolina so famous for catching tall trucks that someone has installed a camera and recorded 145 crashes since 2008. ”