July 2007
The Archives
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Blog, Cities & Urban Life, Transportation
Crazy Interchanges of the Week 3
This weeks theme, keeping with the last post, is of interchanges that didn’t make it. The powers that be were going to build a highway but funding problems or community opposition killed it. What remains are once mighty traffic machines that never were. I-95, I-495 – Washington, DC. This is the physical remnants of the [...]
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Blog, Boston, Maps, New York, Transportation
Unbuilt Highways
Google Maps recently added a new feature where you can create your own maps and needless to say it is pretty awesome. They are great for making a quick map for someone to show them how to get some place but they are also great for the type of stuff I do. After playing around [...]
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Blog, Cities & Urban Life, Transportation
Crazy Interchanges of the Week 2
CT Route 2, US Route 6, US Route 44, I-84 – Hartford, CT. Two things blow my mind about this clusterfuck: 1) It is larger than downtown Hartford, and 2) there was supposed to be another highway that wasn’t connected to this interchange. You can see on one of the ramps there is a small [...]
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Blog, Cities & Urban Life
The 21st Century City: The Super-County and Changing Boundaries
While reading the thread about Boston annexing part of Dedham for development, whighlander posted this interesting thought: No Boston Annexing beyond a bit here and there is a bad idea However, All of the Cities and Towns within and touching I-495 should be included into a new Metropolitan County Boston County would absorb all of [...]
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Blog, Cities & Urban Life, Transportation
Crazy Interchanges of the Week 1
07.01.07 | Permalink | Comments OffI know that posting crazy looking interchanges isn’t a new idea but it is still a fun idea. I knew of a few web sites that had a similar feature but stopped after a while. I am going to try to keep this going as long as possible and once I get enough interchanges I [...]
