Road Policing Unit

Community Development and Planning graduate class, we discussed the importance of understanding physical and symbolic boundaries (i.e. edges) of a space, as a way to comprehend a location. A road can be both a physical edge as well as a symbolic one, as is the intersection of Downing Street and Florence Street. The road is an obvious edge, or boundary for both cars and pedestrians but also a symbolic one because it is the edge of Clark's campus and the beginning of the Worcester community. At…

that have a little to no backyard to play in. Sidewalks also provide a place for kids and adults to walk without walking on the roads where it is unsafe. In fact,the website Distraction.gov, says that in the year 2014, 3,179 people have died in crashes involving distracted drivers on the roads. Sidewalks also give bike riders space to ride safely without biking on the roads and colliding with…

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…

I have spent twenty six days walking alongside this wagon, and let me tell you, we could not have reached Fort Kearny fast enough. I am both mentally and physically exhausted from walking all day. My feet have terrible blisters from my impractical shoes, and my mind goes numb while all I do is walk, ALL. DAY. The only time my brain is jolted from it’s zombie like state is when we meet an Indian. Luckily, all of them have been friendly so far, and have offered tips on how to cross rivers, which…

he didn’t get mad at me, he didn’t get mad at the situation and he didn’t throw a fit about how I lost his phone into the water. I didn’t have to pay for the phone or the bill. I was walking down a road. It was almost the end of summer , by the looks of it, it looked like no one had driven on this road for 2 years maybe or more possible. I saw that other person who phone i lost . By the way ,his name was Karl. Karl was into video gaming and simulators and he also had two vr headsets. So he did…

Two Roads of Great Opportunity People come face to face with decisions every day. Some of these decisions are simplistic, like which shoes to wear or how to fashion one’s hair. On the other hand, some decisions seem impossible to make. In the year of 2018, I was faced with one of those impossible decisions of where I should go to college. Both the colleges had great opportunities waiting for me and I felt much like the traveler in The Road not Taken by Robert Frost. The traveler and I were…

What do you think melts ice fastest? What makes black ice melt the fastest? This question is very important, because it best asks how to melt ice fast. It is important to melt ice fast because 60% of car crashes are caused by black ice, so it is important people melt this black ice. Based on research, the heater will melt ice the fastest. The three topics being researched in this essay are, What is the freezing point of water? What is the temperature of your hand? Is ice dense or light? Why…

As the morning sun breaks through the tree line, a middle age farmer climbs into his convertible Cadillac to head down to the market. Exhilarated by the acceleration and glad to be alive, he breathes in the fresh morning air as he passes the many rows of grain and corn. Across the country and far away from the farm, a family of five packs up its car to spend a week at a rental cabin in the mountains. Both groups use cars to travel; however, without a car the farmer could not easily leave his…

With the music blasting Jake, Dante and I all have a good time. The wind comes in through the window and just riding in the car on the open road feels refreshing.The music stops playing and I look over to admire a huge mountain. I ask my friend Jake about the mountain. I ask him because he comes up to Jackson Hole all the time with his family. I learn that the mountain called The Sleeping Indian stood at 11,000 feet above sea level. I ask how it got the name. My friend Jake responded saying…

Then there was the time cheesecake gave us all free tickets to the reds game. Well I still have a rental. So I drive us being the DD. We stop and get whiskey on the way and start taking shots every time we stop in traffic. I hardly remember parking. Apparently I passed out eating a hot dog while tailgating with everyone. Holly and (I forgot her name but she was amazing (lesbian and she picked me up from the hospital when I fell off the bluff on my birthday at the bar)) Put me in my backseat.…