7 Apr 2025 2:18 pm
*Huey » 39 minutes ago » wrote: ↑TwoIfByTea » 54 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Im watching "Modern Marvels" on "Story TV"..
Talking about the history of traffic control.
The Silk Road was first modern trans-continental trade route its time.
The Roman Empire invented Mile Markers but they were carved in stone.
Traffic Lights the moder percursor was just a cop who watched and gave hand signals but was no uniformity .
Germany built the first Freeways as we know them the "Auto-Bahn" 1930s.
The first actuall stretch of Freeway i America was built in Detroit Michigan the "Davison Freeway" on State Route #8 thru Highland Park past Hamntramck.
In 1956 under the Dwight Eisenhower administration we embarked on the Interstate Highways project arguably the largest infrastructure project in history.
Its original plan & design was to be completed by 1984 actually 1992.
Since then our population has nearly Doubled.
In 1980 the population was about 175/80 million people
Todays population is pushing 360 million people that means double the traffic and goods moving thru infratructure designed nearly 3/4s a Century ago
I was driving a 79 cab over western star in Fl in 87 or 88 when they opened the i95 missing link so you could drive to Miami. I was on leave helping out my father-in-law.
Wow a "Cabover" ya really "Old School".Two » wrote:I-90 thru Wallace Idaho the most famous missing link.*Huey » 39 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ I was driving a 79 cab over western star in Fl in 87 or 88 when they opened the i95 missing link so you could drive to Miami. I was on leave helping out my father-in-law.
Just a small town beautiful scenery but could not build the road thru town resisted fought tooth and nails and sued, and sued in court.
Eventually 1991/1992 a compromise was made.
For such a tiny town its very odd see a giant "Flyover" freeway bridge around like a big city but that was the final completion of Interstate 90 from Boston to Seattle as a complete "Cross Country" Route
I drove only two Cabovers I can remember one was a 1985 Kentworth a 13 speed for the meat plant shagging a "Reefer" behind me that hadda Big "CAT" too i mean like 4/500 hundred horsepower too got oh maybe 4/5 miles a gallon the way I ran it but fuel was "Cheap" back then like oh 85 cents a buck a gallon..
Hadda tiny "Sleeper Bunk" though I mean like I put my jeans back on sitting down and no shelves or drawers but ya could flip the the bed up store stuff underneath.
Oh getting in out that sucker ya hadda hold on and watch ya step too..
The other was a beater Peterbuilt at the Grain Elevators but that was a "Day-Job" I went Home everyday slept in my own bed.
Tell ya what I love "Conventionals" and a Double Bunk Sleeper I can actually stand up in and put my pants back on