In response to a student question about information on driving for pleasure, The Rambler offers a history of driving for pleasure in the United States. The Rambler includes the discomforts of early travel, moving into changing attitudes towards driving with improvements in roads, and a history of scenic roads, scenic road programs, and scenic byways in the United States. The Rambler concludes with a discussion on the psychology of seeing. Several references for further research are included.
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2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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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. ...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Sacagawea was born in a Shoshone tribe about 1790 in what is now Idaho. As a child she was kidnapped by the Hidatsas tribe and sold into slavery to th...
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Ohio plays an important role in the 50th anniversary of our Nation’s Interstate. Harvey Firestone, founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company,...
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a big supporter of toll superhighways, which he saw as a way to create jobs for the unemployed during the Depressi...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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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...
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You're driving along an Interstate, perhaps I-95, minding your own business when suddenly, up ahead, there's a toll booth! And another one after that....
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Fortunately, we rarely hear of traffic accidents involving buses, trains, or other highway public transportation vehicles. However, we sometimes hear ...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Mardis 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 trans...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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National History Day is a year-long education program designed to help students in grades 6 through 12 gain an understanding of historical topics. Stu...
Each month the Department of Transportation releases an Air Travel Consumer Report that includes information about various service quality elements, i...
Each month the Department of Transportation releases an Air Travel Consumer Report that includes information about various service quality elements, i...
Each month the Department of Transportation releases an Air Travel Consumer Report that includes information about various service quality elements, i...
Each month the Department of Transportation releases an Air Travel Consumer Report that includes information about various service quality elements, i...
Each month the Department of Transportation releases an Air Travel Consumer Report that includes information about various service quality elements, i...
Each month the Department of Transportation releases an Air Travel Consumer Report that includes information about various service quality elements, i...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Dear Rambler, I came across the following letter and I'm wondering if it's true... The Rambler Responds: Although the Rambler is no expert on this mat...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Despite this irrational unwillingness to get on a bicycle, the Rambler has to admit the bicycle has sparked several revolutions in transportation sinc...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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In transportation, predictions are a common practice at the project level (such as loading over a 20-year design life, expected noise levels, and envi...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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In July 1988, the FHWA cosponsored a conference called Scenic Byways '88: A National Conference to Map the Future of America's Scenic Roads and Highwa...
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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If you've read an anti-sprawl book, you've read the horror story: the evil Highway Lobby (motto: Let's Pave Over America) tricked Congress in 1956 int...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-01 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Memorandum on key statements made by Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower towards General John S. Bragdon about the Interstate Highway Program on fun...
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