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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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Category Archives: highways
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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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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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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“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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Geography of the states most/least likely for vehicle wrecks with animals
The following map identifies the states where one is most and least likely to have a wreck with an animal, not just a deer as depicted in a 2011 post on this blog site. Animals could include bear, bison, cougar … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Cars, education, Environment, geography, health, highways, history, humanity, infrastructure, land use, Maps, natural history, nature, spatial design, States, Statistics, traffic, transportation, Travel, Wildlife
Tagged accidents, animals, cars, collisions, deer, environment, geography, history, land use, motor vehicles, traffic, transportation, travel, vehicles, wildlife, wrecks
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America’s top international freight gateway cities
The following data identifies the top international freight gateways in the United States for 2022 (air and sea) and in 2023 for land (rail, trucks, pipelines) based on the value of the goods being shipped through them as imports and … Continue reading
Posted in aerospace, air travel, airport planning, airports, aviation, bridges, business, cities, commerce, economic development, engineering, geography, highways, industry, infrastructure, land use, logistics, Maps, pictures, planning, rail, Railroads, shipping, spatial design, Statistics, Trade, traffic, transportation, trucking, urban design, urban planning, Welcome
Tagged air, airports, cities, commerce, freight, gateways, geography, harbors, land, land use, planning, ports, ports of entry, rail, railroads, sea, shipping, transportation, trians, trucking, trucks
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Mapping data center clusters: Greater Dublin, Ireland
The following map identifies the location of data centers in and around Dublin, Ireland. A minimum floor area of 25,000 square feet was required for inclusion on the map, particularly if they are a lesser known datacenter provider. FYI – … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, cities, commerce, Communications, data centers, digital communications, ecommerce, economic development, engineering, Europe, geography, highways, industry, infrastructure, Ireland, land use, logistics, Maps, planning, product design, Science, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, technology, transportation, urban planning
Tagged cities, data, data centers, Dublin, ecommerce, Ireland, land use, planning, technology, transportation
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Natural/historic growth boundaries compared to formally adopted growth boundaries: Are either effective?
The following post examines a natural/historic growth boundary in Albuquerque, New Mexico versus the formally adopted ones in Toronto and Portland to see if they have been successful in limiting sprawl. Lastly, the post will consider the findings from this … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Cars, cities, commerce, culture, density, economic development, ecosystems, environment, geography, Great Lakes, highways, history, Housing, infrastructure, land use, Maps, mountains, natural history, nature, planning, pollution, population, rail, recreation, rivers/watersheds, spatial design, sprawl, Statistics, sustainability, topography, traffic, transit, transportation, Travel, urban design, urban planning, visual pollution, volcanoes, water, Wilderness, zoning
Tagged Albuquerque, cities, environment, geography, greenbelt, growth, history, housing, land use, leapfrogging, Lexington-Fayette, mountains, New Mexico, PDR, planning, Portland, pueblos, purchase of development rights, sprawl, Toronto, transportation, urban growth boundary, water
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Placemaking for the “heART and soul” at the Aldo Leopold Vista Picnic Area
Every now and then you stumble upon something unplanned during your travels that becomes more memorable that many of the places you were scheduled to visit. Our last minute decision to stop for a quick picnic lunch break at the … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, architecture, art, Cars, charities, cities, civics, culture, ecosystems, entertainment, environment, forests, fun, geography, highways, historic preservation, history, infrastructure, land use, mountains, natural history, nature, pictures, placemaking, planning, recreation, third places, tourism, transportation, Travel, Uncategorized, urban planning, volunteerism, Welcome, Wilderness, Wildlife
Tagged Aldo Leopold, art, cities, environment, fun, geography, Gila National Forest, hiking, history, land use, Mogollon Mountains, mosaics, nature, New Mexico, photography, picnic tables, picnicarea, planning, tiles, transportation, travel, vistas
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