highway
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Future Highways Don’t Have to Divide Neighbourhoods or Nature
Highway expansion is seemingly a fact of life. More people want to be able to travel and, in a country with an aversion to functional public transport, making more highways always seems to be the go-to option to turn that into a reality. Building an eight-lane highway cuts a barrier through the countryside and communities,…
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Dashcam Video Shows Imperial TIE Fighter Crashed On A Highway
Video: German TV channel Dein Sky Film just posted this cool dashcam video showing a TIE fighter crashed on a highway. I don’t know if this is a viral ad for the new Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens or what, but whatever this is, it’s really cool.
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How A Mass Whale Graveyard Ended Up Beneath A Highway
Connecting Alaska to Argentina, the Pan-American Highway runs some 48,000km north to south. Construction to widen the highway briefly stopped, however, to make way for dead whales back in 2010, when workers digging through a remote stretch of the Chilean desert found a huge trove of bones millions of years old. Now, scientists think they…