expressways
Beauty in interchange ramps - Japan
Posted Thu, 2008-05-22 08:58Afficionados of interchange design and other highway aesthetes mustn't miss this set of magnificent photographs of swirling, interlocking ramps.
"Beauty is in the eye of the interchange!"
Magic.
Pictures from Ken Ohyama.
What Ansel Adams is to Yosemite, Ken Ohyama is to Tokyo's toll expressways.
Tokyo has the world's most extensive network of urban toll expressways, elevated and underground.
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Penn Pike chief says planning to issue concession RFPs for els in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia (ADDITIONS)
Posted Wed, 2008-02-27 21:29
Penn Pike chief Joe Brimmeier is saying the Turnpike Commission is planning to issue Requests for Proposals shortly for toll concessions to build elevated toll express lanes on:
- (1) the Parkway East (I-376) east of Pittsburgh
- (2) the Schuykill Expressway (I-76) northwest of Philadelphia (pronounced 'skookull' with appropriate Dutch/Philly gutterals. REVISED)
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