pahighways.com - 1/27/2009
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Ground Breaking Ceremonies Ground breaking ceremonies on October 27, 1938. Walter Jones, the commission chairman turns the first spade of dirt. (Pennsylvania State Archives)
greendaily.com - 2/2/2009
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greendaily.com —
I woke up this morning, eagerly awaiting a
groundhog to tell me if this rough winter would...
soon be over! Well, here's the bad news. Punxsutawny Phil has emerged from his Pennsylvania hole bright and early this Groundhog Day morning, and did not see his shadow, predicting six more weeks of ...
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Groundhog Day 2009
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Interstate Redux
Brand Avenue —
... electricity and participate in a
novel give-and-take approach to power. Additionally, Blumenauer
suggests “using the right-of-way for a solar array, which can allow the
electrical needs of the highways to be self-generating.” Now you would
need the highway planners, rail planners, and energy planners sitting
at the same table.
(Above, a few old, naive Pennsylvania Turnpike postcards, via Flickr.) Version 2.0 of the highway ...
Transportation Dump
Landscape+Urbanism —
... , which offers as well some great thoughts, as well as some images from the Pennsylvania Turnpike postcards... the splendor of our linear transportation system, at least as it was sold to people back in the day. ...
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