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New Orleans Freeway Looks Like A Winter Wonderland As Southern Drivers Wisely Stay Home

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New Orleans Freeway Looks Like A Winter Wonderland As Southern Drivers Wisely Stay Home Ten inches of snow fell on New Orleans earlier this week, a staggering total for a city on the Gulf Coast. The last time the Big Easy received this much snow was 1895. Yes, the same year Babe Ruth, J. Edgar Hoover and Buster Keaton were born. A winter storm passing through a city without snowplows created a landscape… Read more…

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Oscar Meyer Wienermobile Rolls Over On Freeway, Police Grill Drivers Involved

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Oscar Meyer Wienermobile Rolls Over On Freeway, Police Grill Drivers Involved We hate to be the ones to break it to you, but America’s only national treasure, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, was involved in a roll over accident (note that is roll over and not roller like where you usually find wieners at 7-Eleven.) The deliciously shaped vehicle struck a car before rolling over on I-294 in… Read more…

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LA Freeway Reopens Ahead Of Schedule But Still Looks Sketchy

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LA Freeway Reopens Ahead Of Schedule But Still Looks Sketchy The charred stretch of 10 freeway in Downtown LA was initially slated to be closed for three to five weeks, but following extensive CalTrans investigation and excavators working around the clock, the freeway opened significantly ahead of projections at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday evening. NBC News Los Angeles reported: Read more…

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When Freeway Removal Goes Wrong

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When Freeway Removal Goes Wrong The removal of the shortest freeway in the U.S., the I-375 interstate in Detroit, was lauded as a step in the right direction in terms of both honoring historical racial justice and digging out a useless, polluting, alienating piece of infrastructure. But instead of green space and quiet streets, Detroiters will… Read more…

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