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Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic
Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic
Paved Deer
I've heard of road-line painting crews not bothering to move roadkill out of the way. But I hadn't heard before of a paving crew simply paving over a dead animal instead of moving it.For some pics of roadkill painted over see: improbable research
Allentown Morning Call - Aug 22, 1996
Allentown Morning Call - Sep 14, 1996
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 21, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Death, Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic
Chickens as traffic control
1975: Rather than installing expensive signs or speed bumps, Napa, California experimented with using chickens to slow down motorists on one of its streets — Streblow Drive, bordering Kennedy Park. They simply let 85 chickens roam the park and street at will. Said park superintendent Bob Pelusi, "Only occasionally does an errant driver charge through the flock. In the nine months we've had the chickens on the job, we've lost 12 of them — gone in the line of duty, so to speak."
Tampa Times - Apr 11, 1975
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 07, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, 1970s
Not The Right Tool For The Job
A Lamborghini towing a trailer. It..it..it leaves me speechless.
Posted By: patty - Thu Jul 28, 2016 -
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Category: Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, Can't Possibly Be True, Cars
Slip Slidding Away
Havana, Illinois has a bug problem. Not bed bugs or cockroaches, mayflies. Their bridge is covered in them and by covered I mean up to six inches deep. The resulting bug goo all over the bridge has caused a number of accidents, cars and motorcycles. A certain kind of water bug grows wings and swarms as mayflies before laying eggs. I am thinking there will be far fewer of the water bugs this season because so many got squished on the bridge before laying eggs.
Posted By: patty - Tue Jun 28, 2016 -
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Category: Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, Insects
Confusion Corner
A traffic roundabout so jumbled, it earned fame and its own postcard.
Concise explanation.
Longer story.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 06, 2015 -
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Category: Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, Regionalism, North America
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