TRANSPORTATION PAGE

Modes of transportation:

• Aviation:
  • Franklin County, Virginia
• Bicycles:
  • helmet safety
  • Chesapeake Bay tour
  • World Naked Bike Ride
• 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
    • 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
  • 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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