There are freeways that preceded the interstate system.
The Turnpike.
The Hollywood freeway.
Then there are those that were named as they were built as sections of the interstate system before being given numerical id's when connected to interstate travel.
Even more comical, Europeans have come up with a green name for the practice of cutting down a tree and burning it for energy – they call it “biomass.”
It gets even funnier. It’s trees in the United States that are being cut down, then reduced to little wood pellets, then shipped across the Atlantic on petroleum-burning tankers, then burned in European furnaces to produce energy. They call this green and sustainable, even though the carbon emissions from this process dwarf those of nuclear energy and domestically drilled natural gas.
Europe Rethinks Its Reliance on Burning Wood for Electricity [NY Times – 5/17/2022]
In recent years, Europe’s power plants have slashed their use of coal by burning something else instead: Millions of tons of wood, much of it imported from the United States. A controversial European Union policy called the Renewable Energy Directive drove this transition by counting biomass — organic material like wood, burned as fuel — as renewable energy and subsidizing its use. A trans-Atlantic industry developed, logging American forests and processing the material into pellets, which are then shipped to Europe.
I’m gonna need to hear from @collegedoog before I lend any opinion here.
“Street takeovers” are becoming quite common in Los Angeles and big cities. A mob of people and cars, responding to a prompt on social media, show up at an intersection and raise holy hell. Police try to break it up but are usually far too late.
Such was the case on August 15 when a flash mob showed up at Figueroa Street and El Segundo Boulevard. After a few minutes of causing mayhem on the streets, they moved into a 7-Eleven store like a swarm of locusts. They picked it clean of anything of value in a matter of minutes...
Police said they will start confiscating cars of both drivers and spectators at street takeovers in the future. [What a novel idea. I'll hold my breath]
“If they’re going to start doing this kind of stuff, inconveniencing people, locking up freeways and taking over freeways, cars are going to start disappearing real soon,” Moreno said.
People in the area said they have been seeing businesses disappearing lately and fear more investments may go away, if the bad behavior continues.
“We’re losing a lot of stuff and we’re not going to have the resources,” said Compton resident Kevin Hosley. “People are going to pull out of us. A lot of us can’t afford to move to $700,000 homes. We’re stuck. We got to live in it but people don’t want to take care of what we got.”
There’s alot of that in the larger Metropolis’ across our country.
It’s horrible. I’m truly glad that I live in a podunk town.
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But still.
The Turnpike.
The Hollywood freeway.
Then there are those that were named as they were built as sections of the interstate system before being given numerical id's when connected to interstate travel.
The Orange. Aka "the 22"
The Harbor. Aka "the 110"
The Golden State Freeway. Aka "the 5"
It’s horrible. I’m truly glad that I live in a podunk town.