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Welcome to the environmental nightmare of early road maintenance. Before paved asphalt became standard, rural towns would literally spray thousands of gallons…
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Concrete is incredibly strong until you try to bend it, at which point it shatters instantly. To stop highways from disintegrating into rubble, massive grids…
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Urban planners despise the uniquely American 'stroad' because it mathematically guarantees what terrifying outcome?
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Stopping to stretch your legs only to be aggressively greeted by high-volume Mozart playing from the outdoor speakers feels deeply surreal. Planners…
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What incredibly simple, chaotic change completely eliminated severe car crashes on a notoriously dangerous Dutch intersection?
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Your brain is terrible at judging scale at sixty miles an hour. Those broken white lines dividing lanes look like they are maybe two feet long from your…
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