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Bulkeley Bridge – Wikipedia

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Bulkeley Bridge – Wikipedia

I bet you didn't know a 8-lanes of Interstate 84 in Hartford, CT cross a bridge completed in 1908, oldest interstate highway bridge in America. It's not a short bridge either -- it spans 1,192 feet. They did add two more lanes in 1964, and part of the bridge is concrete, but most of it is cut stone.

Nationalize Greyhound – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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A modest proposal: Nationalize Greyhound – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

When the narrator of Simon and Garfunkel’s classic 1968 song goes to “look for America,” he takes a Greyhound bus. Fifty years later, there’s never been a better time for America to go looking for Greyhound.

In the last three decades, the struggling inter-city bus company has gone through two bankruptcies and been passed from an American conglomerate, to a Canadian conglomerate, to a British one, FirstGroup. And in May, FirstGroup put Greyhound up for sale.

Buffalo’s first big license plate problem, 1948 – The Buffalo News

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Buffalo’s first big license plate problem, 1948 – The Buffalo News

As Buffalonians and people all across New York State deal with an epidemic of license plate peeling, it's worth remembering that this is not the first time plate problems have popped up. In 1948, the problem wasn’t with the paint peeling off the plates — it was with plates peeling off bumpers.

Despite the fact that New York required new license plates every year in the 1940s, Buffalo Police Detective Sergeant Guy Dewey, who was the head of Buffalo’s Auto Theft Division, had hundreds of valid 1948 tags piled up in his office by midsummer.