roads
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Government Refuses To Name Highway After Melbourne Band (But The Response Is Funny)
In November 2019 Liberal Democrat MP, David Limbrick, formally requested that the Minister for Roads rename Victoria’s ‘Mordialloc Freeway’ to the ‘Mordialloc TISM Freeway’. It looks like it won’t happen. But the response letter is hilarious.
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This 1960s Comic Strip Claimed Nuclear Explosions Were The Future Of Road Construction
Nuclear weapons can wipe out an entire city in the blink of an eye, but what about all the good they can do? That was the pitch from this 1965 comic strip that extolled the virtues of nuclear bombs to build everything from highways to a “second Panama canal.”
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This Is The Coolest Road You’ve Never Heard Of
There are faster roads. There are more famous roads. But I don’t think there are outright cooler roads than this one, the Strada della Forra, so very close to fame.
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Watch A Huge Swarm Of Vehicles Pave A Road In Russia
Video: There are so many dump trucks, pavers and road rollers paving Moscow’s Tverskaya Street in this time lapse that it looks like a massive swarm of machines have taken over Russia. The smaller road rollers look and move a lot like the little planes that launch from the mothership (which, in this case would…