#interstates

[eopederson2]

Highways: I-5 in Oregon, 1969.

By the time I moved from Seattle to Berkeley in 1966 I-5 in Oregon was complete from the Columbia River to the California state line, the first of the three West Coast states to complete the highway. There were still significant stretches of I-5 in California and Washington which had not been built or upgraded to Interstate highway standards.

[xxxovulacion]

[sangcounty]

mennonite funded billboards and falling in love with every 18 wheeler on i-55

[everydaygothic]

interstate gothic

The car speedometer says you are going 80mph, but the dotted white lines at the edges of your lane are crawling by. The scenery around you is as distinguishable as if you were standing still. And the music on the radio is garbled, as if you were listening to it at half speed. The mountains in the distance have not gotten any closer.

[notwearingknickers]

The interstates are in numerical order.

[atlurbanist]

The joy of randomly seeing my urbanism images being used

This is the kind of thing that brings me life-sustaining joy. On Twitter, an ultra conservative author at Forbes links to her awful article warning the U.S. to not adopt good urban designs from Europe that de-center cars and benefit pedestrians/cyclists. Diana Furchtgott-Roth served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. DOT under Trump.

The first commenter on the tweet writes a wonderful smack down of the article, and uses an image I made years ago for this Tumblr blog to illustrate it. I don’t know this person; they live in California apparently. But they’ve brought me happiness by using my stuff to shame a Trump-administration conservative who apparently loves car-oriented cities. 

That image, BTW, shows the exact same section of Atlanta before and after the freeways were built, and the neighborhoods that were destroyed. (I-75/85 and I-20 interchange.)

Sometimes people request permission to use my stuff for various non-profit purposes like class projects or blog posts or slide shows and the answer is always yes (attribution is appreciated). Please share.

[bdubsstar]

ah I-75…. my old nemesis