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    Road capacity According to my personal experience, roads of Maroubra beach area can meet the basic needs of people living in surrounding communities. I have already lived here--a house not far away from the beach for over half a year, and the bus that I take every day would always go through Marine Parade, which is the main road just behind the beach. Fortunately, I never have the chance to experience traffic jam on this road even during peak hours. Marine Parade is a north-south road that is…

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    Why People Drive America

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    In this book by tom Vanderbilt he gives an insight into the reasons people drive a certain way and how do those correlate to the amount of traffic people deal with every day. The psychology of the population is one of the biggest reasons that they drive a certain way. Everyone drives differently and they believe they are the best drivers even if their driving record doesn’t agree with them. He uses the help of many different engineers, physicist and psychologist form all around the world, in his…

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    Essay A There is a straight road in my hometown that in one coincidental way or another has shaped my entire life. The road is known as Junction Highway, and every place that has ever been important to me I have gotten to by using this road. On Junction Highway I have driven home from school feeling exhausted from whatever practice that I experienced that day, but still smiling as I rolled the windows down on my 2005 baby blue beetle, and let the fragrant hill country breeze blow my hair in…

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    The TCA, or Transportation Corridor Agencies wants to extend the 241 Toll Road through the center of historical San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano. Extending this toll road would create countless complications for these cities. Although many claim that a toll road would reduce traffic, in actuality, it would jeopardize the health of numerous people and the construction for this massive project would last for a lengthy time. First of all if a new road was to be built, it would increase the…

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    Illinois Route 53 is a road that thousands of people utilize everyday, with so many people commuting on it, there are talks about expansion to help speed up commutes, however, Route 53 should not be extended because the project would be costly for commuters, homeowners, and the general taxpayers. One way that it is costly is simply the cost of the projects. The expansion is projected to cost from 2.2 billion to 2.7 billion dollars of taxpayer money. What this will be used for it to buy the land…

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    202 Freeway Case Study

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    wildlife in the area. Sadly, this perception of South Mountain may not be the same for future Arizonans if the expansion of the 202 Freeway takes place. The expansion of the 202 Freeway should be stopped due to the environmental impacts it would have such as the destruction of natural land and wildlife in that area. Another concern for the expansion of the 202 Freeway would be the impacts it would have on residents who live in the area it would be constructed. Not only would it alter the natural…

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    Freeway Jam Analysis

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    Journal #3 part:1 Freeway Jam was about the abundance of freeways In Los Angeles and the infamous Los Angeles traffic. One person mentioned in the reading was a man named, Reyner Banham who is basiclly the grandfather of freeways in LA. He wrote the book “Los Angeles:The Architecture of Four Ecologies” Reyner even coined the word “autopia.” He stated “as you acquire the special skills involved , the Los Angeles freeway become a special way of being alive.” Banham was a british architectul…

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    Freeway 41 Research Paper

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    Freeway 41, also called SR 41 (which means it is a state route) was constructed in 1933, and was established the state sign route system in 1934. The freeway is approximately 185.6 miles long and starts off by branching off of highway 1 at Murro Bay, from there it heads inland. On route it passes by other freeways and highways, at one point even intermixing with another freeway for a time. it passes through Fresno and enteres Yosemite national park, not stopping till it reaches wowana. Today…

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    In the mural the very first thing that people would see would be the cars themselves, since the mural is relatively tall and is located on the side of a freeway which allows the drivers passing by to relate to the art piece, this in the end evokes the idea that this metropolitan city of Los Angeles is a haven town and should be recognized as a very beautiful city. Cars are a very important way of life here…

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    Chapter 2, "Nobody but a Bunch of Mothers," from Eric Avila's "The Folklore of the Freeway" exposes the harsh impact of the highway on urban communities, highlighting experiences of women during the 1950s and 1960s. The construction of highways under the National Interstate and Defense Highway Act led to the displacement of many people from their homes and communities, which inflicted conflict and harsh discrimination against these predominantly minority groups. The viewpoint of women in this…

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