"What you’re looking at is what’s known as a diverging diamond interchange, an emerging concept in highway design that aims to eliminate the left turn and thereby increase safety, even if, from the top down, it looks like complete chaos.
It is perfectly legal in New York State, and sensible to drive below the speed limit. You have every right to drive at 55 MPH or 60 MPH on the Thruway or any other 65 MPH road in New York State if you are in the right lane.
"The maximum speed limit is just that, the maximum speed at which drivers can lawfully operate their motor vehicles. This does not mean that drivers must drive at this speed limit; they can, and should in many cases, drive at speeds less than the maximum speed limit, such as when the pavement is wet or icy. However, driving too slowly can also be dangerous. Some Interstate highways have posted minimum speeds, usually 40 mph. In general, it is safest to drive with the flow of traffic unless that flow is exceeding the speed limit. On Interstate and other limited-access highways drivers should use the right lanes when possible to help prevent congestion and acts of aggressive driving."
By reducing your speed, you will save gas, have more time to enjoy the scenery, have to pass fewer cars, and will be able to use your cruise control. Often reducing your speed to 55 MPH or 60 MPH, you will only add minutes to an multi-hour trip.
"One of those companies is Sabre Technical Services LLC in Slingerlands. The company has rigs that clean and recycle millions of gallons of water needed to extract natural gas from deep rock formations in Texas, Arkansas, Wyoming, Oklahoma and other states. Sabre Technical Services LLC in Slingerlands operates five $1 million rigs that purify water contaminated by hyrdofracking."
Sabre has contracts with Occidental Petroleum Corp., Chesapeake Energy Corp., Apache Corp., Exxon and other energy giants, creating 100 jobs, about 20 of which are at the company headquarters. “We have 20 years of history with hydrofracking,” said John Mason, chairman and chief technology officer. “It’s the biggest market opportunity now.”
"The opportunities are not in New York, however, as the state continues to study whether to allow drilling in the Southern Tier, where the Marcellus Shale rock formation contains huge deposits of natural gas. "
The Phil G. McDonald Bridge in West Virginia is one of the most unusual big bridges for it's time period. It's 700 feet above the Glade Creek.
Built in 1987-88, it's the world's highest truss bridge, and America's largest fracture critical bridge, that should a single truss or gusset plate fail, the entire bridge could plunge the height of 70 stories into the ravine. The bridge is carefully inspected on a yearly basis to avoid failure. Generally, since 1970, new large truss bridges are not constructed, ever since the lessons learned from 1967 Silver Bridge Disaster.
"July 20, 2017 - This summer, Congress is wrestling with the prospect of an as-yet unseen trillion-dollar infrastructure package, a contentious battle over privatizing air traffic control, partisan divisions over motor vehicle standards for emerging technologies, and – you guessed it – changing t..."
The Trump Administration has reversed the Obama's administration to phase out use of Clearview font in favor of the traditional FHWA font. Now DOTs can choose between Clearview and the royalty free FHWA font. I expect with the modern sub versions of FHWA font including lower case characters most will stick with FHWA.
Many conservatives are concerned about the dangers of snow sticking to LED traffic lights leading to horrific crashes on highways. For them, General Electric has invented a special traffic light that has a heater element that turns on automatically when it drops below 30 degrees on the glass surface, consuming 33 watts in cold conditions compared to the 116 watts for the incandescent bulbs. Only uses 12 watts when the glass is above freezing.