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5 Terrible U.S. Road and Highway Designs: Lessons Learned Lesson No. 1 ||| Don't Bulldoze Houses for Roads (L-R) The Cross-Bronx Expressway, New York City; The Alaskan Way Viaduct, Seattle The Offenders: The Cross-Bronx Expressway, New York City; The Alaskan Way Viaduct, Seattle To the 21st-century American, the idea of razing homes to make room for more roads may seem inconceivable, or at least dated. Our metropolises might be strangled with congestion, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a traffic engineer or highway designer who thinks more urban expressways are the solution. That wasn't always the case. In the immediate post-war years, massive highway projects reshaped vast sections of the urban landscape. In New York, whole neighborhoods disappeared, and more than 5000 families were forced to move when master builder Robert Moses ran the 8.3-mile Cross-Bronx Expressway, a vital link in his vision for a massive network of urban expressways, ...

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Pee to help make your garden grow Head Gardener Philip Whaites says using the bale also saves using water for toilets Gardeners at a National Trust property in Cambridgeshire are urging people to relieve themselves outdoors to help gardens grow greener. A three-metre long "pee bale" has been installed at Wimpole Hall. Head gardener Philip Whaites is urging his male colleagues to pee on the straw bale to activate the composting process on the estate's compost heap. He said the "pee bale" is only in use out of visitor hours, since "we don't want to scare the public". He said: "For eight weeks now, male members of our garden and estate teams have been using the outdoor straw bale when nature calls. "The pee bale is excellent matter to add to our compost heap to stimulate the composting process; and with over 400 acres of gardens and parkland to utilise compost, we need all the help we can get. "There are obvious logistical benefits to ...

No Tea at Altino! Right now I am in a hotel operated by the government of Goa known as the "Circuit House", on the hill of Altino in Goa . Originally meant for touring government officials (to 'circuit' is to 'tour'),.............................. Kamat's Potpourri: Amma's Column - No Tea at Altino!

I just returned from office and decided that today I should start my first real blog. Although I tried my hand at this earlier on lycos it never really took off beyond the initial two postings. So here I am writing about life in Goa and how things have changed since my childhood. What we all thought Goa should always be and where is it today. I will set my thoughts in here for everyone to comment and in the hope that we will all be working to keep our place the beautiful innocent Goa that it has always been. Thats all I have to say tonight. I shall be writing again soon. Guru