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Colonel Ebenezer Zane, beginning with Zane's Trace, played a major role in the social and economic development of Ohio, placing it on the path to statehood.
The Georgia Department of Transportation ITS4US Deployment project, Safe Trips in a Connected Transportation Network (ST-CTN), is leveraging innovative solutions, existing deployments, and collaboration to make a positive impact using transportation technology to support safety, mobility, sustainability, and accessibility. The ST-CTN concept is com
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A new kind of camping has been sweeping America for decades and becomes more and more popular each year. It is referred to as RVing (Recreational Vehicle-ing). Often fueled by married couples earning double incomes, these comfortable motor homes, exclusive travel trailers, convenient and compact cab-over campers, converted vans and pop-ups, and elo
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In good times and bad, the Rambler can safely say State and local governments never have enough money for their highway needs. It has always been so. In recent years, the Federal Highway Administration has spearheaded "innovative financing" techniques that can help meet needs. There's even a website about it: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ipd/finance/ H
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More than 155 years ago one of the worst tragedies in American travel occurred during the westward migration. The 1840s wagon train journey to California usually began at Independence, Missouri, around the first of May. Taken into consideration were rainfalls that could wash out roads and flood riverbanks, immature grass to feed livestock, or grass
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When the Joint Board on Interstate Highways issued its report, the proposed U.S. highway network included U.S. 52: From Newport News, Virginia, to Richmond, Burkeville, Lynchburg, Lexington, Covington, Lewisburg, West Virginia, Charleston, Huntington, Ironton, Ohio, Portsmouth, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Indiana, LaFayette, Fowler. [Bold added. All
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When the Joint Board on Interstate Highways issued its report in October 1925, the U.S. numbered highway system included U.S. 22: From Elizabeth, New Jersey, Phillipsburg, Reading, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Clarks Ferry, Bellefonte, Dubois, New Castle, Youngstown, Ohio, Cleveland. A portion of this road east of Clarks Ferry coincided with the Willi
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Mardi Gras? Fats Domino? Gris-gris? The Rambler couldn't care less. As far as The Rambler is concerned, the only point about New Orleans is its transportation history. So, anyone looking for a travel guide to the best bars in New Orleans-look elsewhere!
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From 1926 to 1929, when the United States Highways were designated with numbers, U.S. Route 52 in North Carolina was not one of them. Highway 52 is a two-lane mountain road entering the state at a 3,000-foot elevation from the north at the mountainous Fancy Gap, Virginia. Route 52 later becomes a four-lane roadway where it flows into the more level
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I-76 goes through Philadelphia, where the Founding Fathers crafted and signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Surely it's no coincidence that I-76 happens to go through the city where the United States was born. It's a nice thought. The Rambler thought so, too, and then he did some research.
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A look at a road atlas from the early 1920's would reveal a complete network of named trails crisscrossing the country. The Lincoln Highway, from New York City to San Francisco, was the best known road of its day. Other well-known routes included the: Dixie Highway (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, to Miami, Florida), Meridian Highway (Winnipeg, Canada,
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The transporting of letters and postcards by mail has been going on for years. Stamps required for this activity have pictured every conceivable topic imaginable-overing the unique heritage of America. Narrowing the subject to highways and bridges points up a pictorial view of history. In a postage stamp there is a particular kind of art-a small-si
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