There is a sign entering the Empire Plaza tunnels that says “Pedestrians, Bicycles, Horses Prohibited”. I almost wish I owned a horse, so I could defy that sign and ride it through the tunnel, as I am sure there is 100% compliance with that law.
Appropiate Roads
States Neglect Road Repairs, Spend Too Much on New Roads
Is anybody really that surprised that America overspends on new road construction and not enough on repairs? It's also further evidence that we don't need to hike the gas tax -- which just have to spend less money on new road construction.
Some Truth About Driving
We’re Driving Less, So Should We Stop Building New Roads?
Rather then raising gas taxes, they should look at building fewer roads, and taking little used, but duplicate roads out of service.
Like It or Not, Most Urban Freeways Are Here to Stay
Urban freeways are so destructive when you look at their impacts to cities. But what are the alternatives in the automobile-era? For the movement of inter-city traffic, especially, there isn't really any other good alternative.
How Long Until New York Goes to 70 MPH on Expressways?
Recently, Pennsylvania started to allow the speed limit to be increased to 70 MPH on certain expressways with the passage of a new law. That leaves only a handful of states with a maximum speed limit of 65 MPH, mostly smaller New England States, along with Wisconsin. There is an active debate in that state to raise their limit. Oregon and Pennsylvania have no roads yet posted for 70 MPH, but both states have laws specifically allowing for speed limits to be posted up to 70 MPH.
Almost all of the western states have a maximum speed limit of 75 MPH or even 80 MPH in some cases. They tend to be spread out with wide lanes, few curves, and long viability. There is a strong case of having a faster speed limit out there, especially in light of newer cars having low gear ratios in top speeds, so they don’t burn quite as much fuel at those higher speeds.
There would likely be considerable controversy from the insurance lobby in New York, who pay more in high-speed loss claims. Truckers might also be oppose, as they would burn more fuel at higher speeds. The downstate dominated legislature (almost 70% of New Yorkers live in NYC Metropolitan counties), might not care much about speed limits on Upstate expressways.
But it’s unclear how long the opposition can hold out against higher speed limits, when every other state is adopting them. Most people already drive 70 MPH, and this law would only make enforcement fairer.
The only large state in the Continental United States without a 70 MPH speed limit on Expressways is now New York and Wisconsin. Wisconsin is expected to raise it's limit.
Arteries as Art II
If you where to put a pencil to a piece of paper, and started drawing random interconnected lines and loops, what would get?
What about if you created a giant spider web and started to connecting them together?
Or maybe took a sheet of paper, drew, a grid, erased some, drew some thicker lines?
What about a curley line that bypasses that grid?
Or as time you got cute, and stopped drawing a grid, and started adding twists and turns to your lines?
As you get further and further away, and your lines are getting crazier, are you starting to suffer from cancer on the brain?
I don’t know. Maybe I shouldn’t know. Or maybe I’m not allowed to know.