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- Working list: World’s deepest open pit mines past and present
- Biggest baddest bottlenecks for truck traffic in the USA
- Scaling one the last remaining fire lookout towers in Illinois
- A living art museum amid ghost town ruins
- Frozen fun: The ascent of ice climbing parks
- Take a [Late Night Drive Home] to alternative rock bliss
- India’s longest road/highway land tunnels
- Morenci: A look inside America’s largest copper mine
- “Storyliving towns” – A new dystopian blueprint?
- The world’s wildest roundabout is below the ocean!
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Author Archives: problogic
Biggest baddest bottlenecks for truck traffic in the USA
The map above and the list below identify the 100 worst trucking bottlenecks in the United States in 2023. Where the truck icons blend/blur together on the map, there are more bottlenecks in close proximity to one another. More detailed … Continue reading
Posted in business, cities, commerce, distribution, ecommerce, geography, highways, industry, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, planning, spatial design, Statistics, traffic, transportation, Travel, trucking, urban planning
Tagged bottlenecks, cities, congestion, distribution, geography, land use, logistics, planning, semis, traffic, transportation, travel, trucking
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Scaling one the last remaining fire lookout towers in Illinois
At one time, there were 30 fire lookout towers in the Land of Lincoln. Sadly like many other states, they began to be disassembled and removed in the 1970s when technology and other resources began replacing humans as fire lookouts. … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, architecture, civics, ecosystems, engineering, environment, forests, fun, geography, government, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, lookouts, natural history, nature, pictures, place names, product design, recreation, schools, skylines, spatial design, Statistics, topography, tourism, Travel, Wilderness, wildfire, Wildlife
Tagged Big River Lookout, Big River State Forest, environment, fire lookouts, geography, history, Illinois, Keithsburg, land use, lookouts, travel
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A living art museum amid ghost town ruins
We stopped by the ghost town of Colmor, New Mexico today (Sunday April 21) and were not only intrigued by the haunting remains of this small town, but were absolutely astounded by the beautiful graffiti art painted on the remaining … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, art, Cars, cities, Communications, culture, fun, ghost towns, highways, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, pictures, place names, placemaking, schools, spatial design, toponymy, tourism, transportation, Travel
Tagged art, cities, Colmor, fun, geography, ghost towns, graffiti, High Plains, Hindue, history, I-25, land use, New Mexico, travel
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Frozen fun: The ascent of ice climbing parks
As spring moves into full bloom, one might wonder why we are posting a piece on ice climbing parks? Well, human-made ice climbing parks have successfully filled a niche for smaller communities that in the past have largely shut down … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, Arctic, cities, climate, economic development, engineering, entertainment, fitness, fun, geography, health, infrastructure, land use, Maps, mountains, natural history, nature, placemaking, planning, recreation, seasons, sports, technology, third places, topography, tourism, Trade, Travel, urban planning, water, weather
Tagged bluffs, cities, cliffs, climbing, Edmonton, fun, geography, Ice, ice climbing, Iowa, Jackson Hole, Lake City, Ouray, outdoors, parks, parks and recreation, quarries, recreation, rock, sandstone, sports, travel, Winnipeg, Winona, winter
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Take a [Late Night Drive Home] to alternative rock bliss
So far, 2024 has been a wonderful year for discovering new alternative rock music. First Been Stellar and now a terrific band out of the El Paso, Texas area. In both cases. I have to thank Britain’s NME (New Music … Continue reading
Posted in art, Communications, culture, entertainment, fun, history, music, music reviews, pictures, songs, video, writing
Tagged albums, alternative, El Paso, fun, history, Late Night Drive Home, music, new music, reviews, rock, songs, Texas, tracks, tunes
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India’s longest road/highway land tunnels
The following list identifies the longest roadway land tunnels in India. Underwater tunnels are not included. As additional tunnels are constructed or become known, they will be added to the list. As always, any additions, corrections, or suggestions are most … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Cars, cities, economic development, engineering, highways, history, India, infrastructure, land use, mountains, pictures, planning, Statistics, topography, tourism, Trade, traffic, transportation, Travel, trucking, tunnels
Tagged cities, geography, highways, India, land use, planning, roads, transportation, travel, tunnels
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Morenci: A look inside America’s largest copper mine
We had the opportunity over the past weekend to travel to and through parts of Southeast Arizona. While returning, we drove along U.S. 191 through the ginormous Morenci Copper Mine — the largest in the United States. This complex is … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, art, business, cities, commerce, consumerism, culture, economic development, ecosystems, engineering, environment, forests, geography, Geology, ghost towns, historic preservation, history, humanity, infrastructure, land use, Maps, Mining, mountains, natural history, nature, pictures, planning, revitalization, spatial design, Statistics, topography, tourism, Travel, tunnels, urban planning
Tagged Arizona, cities, Clifton, copper, environment, forests, former mining towns, geography, geology, historic preservation, history, land use, mining, Morenci, Morenci mine, mountains, planning, revitalization, tourism, travel, trucks
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“Storyliving towns” – A new dystopian blueprint?
As if Americans weren’t already overwhelmed with rampant commercialism, marketers have now decided to bring Storyliving towns to our front doorsteps. “Ding-dong! Congratulations Mr. & Ms. America. Now, you can live in an alternate universe among your cartoon friends and … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, Alternative transportation, branding, business, Cars, cartoons, cities, civics, climate change, commerce, consumerism, culture, demographics, density, deserts, economics, ecosystems, entertainment, environment, film, fitness, futurism, health, highways, history, industry, land use, landscape architecture, marketing, money, movies, music, nature, opinion, pictures, placemaking, planning, population, product design, revitalization, shopping, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, sustainability, tourism, traffic, trails, transit, transportation, Travel, urban design, urban planning, visual pollution, walking, water, water conservation, xeriscaping, zoning
Tagged alternate reality, Asteria, branding, California, capitalism, cartoons, cities, consumerism, Cotino, Disney, environment, fake, fantasy, futurism, land use, marketing, North Carolina, planning, storyliving towns, theme parks, transportation, travel
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The world’s wildest roundabout is below the ocean!
Eysturoyartunnilin (Eysturoy Tunnel) was completed in 2020 and connects three separate islands in the Faroe Islands archipelago situated in the North Atlantic north of the United Kingdom approximately midway between Iceland and Norway. An autonomous part of Denmark, this island … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, art, Cars, commerce, economic development, engineering, environment, Europe, fun, geography, Geology, highways, history, infrastructure, land use, Maps, pictures, placemaking, planning, scenic byways, Statistics, technology, topography, tourism, traffic, transportation, Travel, tunnels, water
Tagged Denmark, engineering, Faroe Islands, fun, geography, land use, oceans, planning, roadways, roundabouts, tourism, transportation, travel, tunnels, undersea, underwater
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