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America’s Lost Highways Are Beautiful Monuments To Our Garbage Infrastructure
Jalopnik via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIt’s hard to overestimate just what a game changer the 1957 Interstate Highway Act was to building...
19 Incredibly Cool Maps About The United States That Will Make You So Much Smarter
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 1 year ago1. First cool thing: The numbers used for our Interstate Highway System aren't random...they all...
Black communities are using mapping to document and restore a sense of place
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThese highways displaced many Black communities. Some Black activists are using mapping to do the...
Average Joe: Modern attitudes about maps are driving me up the wall
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoYou’d better be sitting down, because I am about to rock your world with some startling information...
Highway with ‘Loneliest Road in America’ also runs through St. Louis region
KTVI via Yahoo News· 5 months agoST. LOUIS – You would hardly know it driving through St. Louis, but one of the region’s highways...
Google maps or AAA? Modern wayfaring versus the old-school paper maps and trip-tics
The Stockton Record via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs a preteen and teen in the 1950s and 60s, I remember many short and longer vacation trips with my...
Man’s walk across America highlights infrastructure problems in Tennessee
WKRN articles via Yahoo News· 5 months agoNASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — After walking over 3,000 miles and more than 250 days, 25-year-old Holden...
Why Are Highway Signs Green?
Jalopnik via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHighway signs are a ubiquitous part of America’s infrastructure iconography. The U.S. highway shields are probably the most well-known mass-produced...
Built on backs of slaves: New mapping shows clearer picture of SC’s historic rice fields
Hilton Head Island Packet via AOL· 2 years agoMore than 236,000 acres of rice fields spanning 160 miles once covered coastal South Carolina,...
'A beautiful life': The Arizona barber who saved Route 66 hangs up his shears for good
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis is a little embarrassing to admit but my stomach has dictated much of my writing career. My...