November 2, 2009 @ 10:20 pm
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An Australian designer (living in America) has taken it upon himself to create this great looking map of the Eisenhower Interstate System with an obvious homage to the classic London Underground map.
You can read more about Cameron’s map design here.
July 23, 2009 @ 6:17 pm
Photo: Matt Rourke/Associated Press
Caption: Recent La Salle University graduate Sean Christman of Westmont, N.J., handed out his resume to passing motorists in Philadelphia Wednesday.
This is clever, and yet it is sad to see that graduates need to go to these extremes. Doesn’t make me feel too great. :(
June 23, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
Billy Rennekamp made this looping video of a highway clover from Google Streetview. If you’re curious, the highway here is I-265 to I-71 (and back again…and so on and so forth). [via]
May 19, 2009 @ 10:59 am
On May 17th, the Hongqi Road of Zhuzhou City in Hunan province collapsed onto several vehicles below killing up to 4 people. There’s rumor going around that the number of dead is actually much higher because the accident happened at rush hour and there are buildings beneath the roadway that were used for public housing (meaning, lots of people live there).
See more pictures here.
April 1, 2009 @ 12:27 am
Photo: Paul Nicklen
Paul Nicklen’s amazing photo of a rainbow touching down on a car on the highway is available to download for free at National Geographic. Use it as a wallpaper to brighten up your day. :)
March 23, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
Robert Moses is considered one of the most important figures in modern city planning. He is the man responsible for many of New York City’s current infrastructure and roads. His ideas about what a city should be greatly divided people and turned him into a very controversial figure in NYC politics and government.
In the late 1930’s Robert Moses proposed an expressway called the Mid-Manhattan Expressway that would have cut directly across Manhattan, connecting the Midtown Tunnel with the Lincoln Tunnel. The plan never came into fruition because of opposition from people along the proposed expressway route, but it didn’t stop Vanshnookenraggen from reconstructing Moses’ plan in Google Maps. [via]
Vanshnookenraggen also made the Google Maps image below that shows another failed expressway propsed by Robert Moses in the 1960’s. This expressway below was dubbed the Lower Manhattan Expressway and would have cut through Lower Manhattan to connect the Holland Tunnel with the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges.
