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Finding New Life on an Old Road
wired news ^ | Oct. 27, 2003 | Michelle Delio

Posted on 10/27/2003 3:40:28 PM PST by freepatriot32

Edited on 06/29/2004 7:10:06 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

YORK -- Richard Weingroff really loves roads, as long as he doesn't have to travel too far on them.

Weingroff, information liaison specialist for the Federal Highway Administration and the FHA's unofficial historian, doesn't have anything against roads -- he just doesn't like to travel much. But when he does hit the road, he sticks to the new interstates and steers clear of the older secondary highways.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Florida; US: Maine; US: Massachusetts; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: an; finding; highways; life; new; old; on; road

1 posted on 10/27/2003 3:40:28 PM PST by freepatriot32
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To: freepatriot32
Sounds like a trip I would love to take. Several times in my 20s, I just took a week off work, jumped in the car, and racked up 2000 miles in 8 days, wandering all over the Southeast just for the hell of it. The America that's off the Interstates and out of the cities is, I think, the best part of the whole country.

(And they'll be driving about a half-mile from my apartment, just off US 1 in the very un-scenic northeastern suburbs of Columbia, SC!)

}:-)4
2 posted on 10/27/2003 3:57:20 PM PST by Moose4 (What America needs is less "law" and more common sense.)
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To: Moose4
And driving smack through the middle of my town, Aiken, the prettiest town in SC.
3 posted on 10/27/2003 4:10:32 PM PST by upchuck (Encourage HAMAS to pre-test their explosive devices. A dud always spoils everything.)
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To: Coop
The temptation to chime in here is almost...overwhelming.
4 posted on 10/27/2003 4:19:52 PM PST by patton (I wish we could all look at the evil of abortion with the pure, honest heart of a child.)
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To: freepatriot32
Route 1 is indeed the ugliest major highway in the country.
5 posted on 10/27/2003 4:37:23 PM PST by expatpat
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To: freepatriot32
Unfortunately Route 1 in New Jersey is not a Colonial Road in most spots. Portions of Rt 1 in Trenton are very old but the main portion of the road was laid out in the early 1800s. In central NJ, the King's Highway (Rt 27) which runs a mile or two west of Route 1 is the much older road with great Colonial/Revolutionary War history. Ben Franklin, George Washington, Cornwallis etc. etc. would have traveled the King's Highway not the then non-existant Route 1.
6 posted on 10/27/2003 4:47:52 PM PST by XRdsRev
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To: freepatriot32
The correct term is: "Road Geek"
7 posted on 10/27/2003 9:44:51 PM PST by GreenLanternCorps ("Vietnam was, in truth, a noble cause." - Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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