Do you pass oncoming traffic on the left or right? Which side of the road, the sidewalk, the stairway, the escalator, the river, or the railroad do you travel on? Where does the driver sit? The answer varies around the world.

Modes, methods, and routes of transportation:

Aviation:
- Franklin County, Virginia
Bicycles:
Bridges
- condition
Buses
- Greyhound
Railroads
- Amtrak
- Tunnel under Bering Strait
- Schiller Institute proposed development
River Systems of the World
Roads:
- Kurumi's Humble House of Roadsdom
- Your highway tax dollars at work
- Highway systems
- US highways
- The Atlanta Roadway Digest
- Interchanges:
  - field guide
  - U.S.A. photographs from above: aerial and satellite
  - topographic maps
  - aerial photographs
  - Trumpet interchanges modified:
    - The HarMonica, a double counterclockwise trumpet joining the Santa Monica Freeway to the Harbor Freeway in Los Angeles
    - A single trumpet joining the Meadowbrook State Parkway to the Southern State Parkway in North Merrick, Long Island
    - An interlocking double trumpet joining the Wantagh State Parkway to the Southern State Parkway in North Wantagh A/K/A Jerusalem, Long Island
- Dangerous roads:
  - Dead Man's Curve
  - Bolivia's Yungas Road
  - Slaughter alley
  - Queens Boulevard: Boulevard of Death
- Automobiles:
  - Microcars
  - The 1948 Tucker
Wormhole:
- Warp in space links Orlando and Roanoke.

Reverse commuters

Information and statistics

Maps

(Geography page)
Maps on Us
Yahoo
Excite
Beware Map Quest
Worldwide map viewer.
Get directions and maps in USA.
US Census maps in compressed format.
US Census Tiger maps.
Tiger Map Server of US Census
Topographic Maps
Topographic maps (also photographs from above: aerial and satellite)
World Concentrations of Population
Map Projection Home Page
American Congress on Surveying & Mapping
Ocean sensing group at Johns Hopkins University
Great Globe Gallery
Great Circle Route Drawing Utility
Great Circle Distance Calculator

from The Public Purpose

Highway construction and alternatives:

Taxpayer alert: Congress allocates $198 billion for "Moving Americans into the 21st Century". They can save the money. It can't get us there any more quickly.
Proposed Interstate 73 between South Carolina and Michigan (with public opinion.
- Draft environmental impact statement
National Network Against New Highways
The Ellet Valley is smarting from highway construction between Blacksburg and Roanoke.
Road locations should be chosen by regional planning agencies, not the self-serving Commonwealth Transportation Board. A report by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) tells why.
Why are European roads more durable? Is the answer a stronger foundation or better drainage?
Clearance for military vehicles--question & answer.
Governor Gilmore ignores criminal charge against member of Commonwealth Transportation Board
- the charge
- the governor's response

Correspondence:

to the Virginia Department of Transportation regarding the need for access standards 30 October 2007
to Lieutenant Governor Tim Kaine regarding the need for transportation reform 17 December 2005
to the Virginia Department of Transportation regarding reconstruction of Buck Mountain Road in Clearbrook: meeting 17 March 2005
to the Virginia Department of Transportation regarding improvements: meetings 4-6 January 2005
to Virginia's Commonwealth Transportation Board regarding capital planning: meetings 30 March 1998
to the Fifth Planning District regarding transportation improvements in Virginia: meeting 28 August 1997
to the Virginia Department of Transportation regarding the routing of Interstate 73: meetings 12-14 May 1998
with the Federal Highway Administration regarding the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge

Discussion of plans for Downtown Roanoke.

Administrative boundaries based on transportation routes.

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