Tag: worst roads

Business
The Highway 69 blues
In Oklahoma, “enjoy the view, if you can concentrate after having your brain slammed around in your cranium.”
June 4, 2014
Lake Eufaula, Okla.
Business
Mastodon in an OK Turnpike pothole
“There are potholes in Oklahoma with potholes inside of them, and inside of the inside potholes are tiny villages, where they grow maize and build sun temples.”
May 3, 2013
How’s this for a tight dock?
Channel 19
‘Where’s the love’ for truckers? Dr. Love has the answer
Or at least he knows where it’s not: I-55 South into Hammond, La., from the No. 46 milemarker about 15 miles to I-12 (much smoother). Dr. Love, or truck driver B.G. Love, takes online viewers on a tour down this road in a video posted in June to the blog for his “Lovology” project, a personal […]
September 12, 2011
Channel 19
How to save fuel: ‘Fix the roads!’ researchers say
We all know the tire makers have done their due in improving truck-tire rolling resistance in recent years to help operators save fuel with tire choices. Two Auburn University researchers say it’s time for the paving industry and the governments that allocate funds for roads to step up to the plate. They located a holy […]
August 1, 2011
Crackedpavement
Channel 19
Popular Mechanics seeks ‘Worst Road’ nominations
Make your voice heard! No, I’m not talking about the proposed mandate of electronic onboard recorders for hours of service compliance (for more about that: comments are open through May 23). Popular Mechanics editors are seeking out the “worst road in the USA,” they say at the magazine’s website. Who better to nominate it than […]
April 27, 2011
Clarfieldcounty
Channel 19
Third time’s the charm? Feds say no to tolling I-80 in Penn.
A development that could mark the end of a long saga (you could make a case that it goes back to the 1980s — heck, even that it begins prior to the establishment of the Interstate Highway System itself) happened yesterday with the third federal rejection of an application by the state of Pennsylvania for authority […]
April 7, 2010
Business
Road poll: The good, the bad, the better
Familiar freeways top the rankings of best, worst and most improved roads in Overdrive survey
February 1, 2010
I-40 in Knoxville, Tenn., reopened in 2009 after being closed for more than a year. The state’s section of I-40 was named Best Road.
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