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02-10-2004, 10:55 PM | #1 |
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Everything Highways- Project for School
I have to do a project on highways for school, so I was wondering if you could tell me about them, dose anyone here remember what life was like before major highways (they weren't invented untill 1930, so some of you might remember)? If you can, then tell me some of what life was like, how did youi get around, how much longer did it take you est.
Do you anything about Hitler and highways? My teacher told me that Hitler created highways to move tanks and stuff, but I couldn't find any good websights about that. Any help would be appresiated here. What are highways made of? Pavement, of course; but what else? Is there anything else under the pavement? How long dose it take to build a mile of highway, aproxamently, in a mountain area? In the planes? At the beach? In ther desert? Any where else? How much money dose it cost to maintain a mile of highways? In all of the landforms above, or in different weather. Tell me what nollage you have of highways, answer the questions above, or just tell what you know. I also have a survey that I would like you to answer for school. I'll post it below this, so that they don't get mixed up. Please also tell me what country you live in, for extra info.. I need 24 intervews, but it would be neat to have some from outside the US. Thanks alot!!!
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02-10-2004, 10:57 PM | #2 |
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How many times do you use the highway per day?
0-3 4-6 6-9 10 or more Approximately how fast do you go on the highway? 0-30 MPH 31-50 MPH 51-75 MPH Over 75 MPH How old were you when you got your license? I do not have my license 16 17 18 19-21 22 and above How do you get around? Public transportation Parents/Friends Rented or borrowed vehicle Owned vehicle Walking Do you find the your local highways high on traffic? Yes No How far from the closest highway do you live? 0-1 miles 2-5 miles 6-15 miles Over 15 miles How often do you use a back road other then your driveway or street? Daily Every other day Ones a week Ones every other week Less every other month In your opinion, should highways be improved? Yes No Why do you use the highway? (pick as many chouses as you wish) To get to work Go to school Go shopping Get to friends house Other Age group: 10-20 21-40 41-59 60+ Country that you live in:PLEASE help me out by answering this survey!!! PLEASE! I need it for school!
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02-10-2004, 11:58 PM | #3 |
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I hope this helps you!
How many times do you use the highway per day? 0-3 Approximately how fast do you go on the highway? 51-75 MPH How old were you when you got your license? 17 How do you get around? my 1992 piece of crap Buick Skylark(well it's not that bad) Public transportation Parents/Friends Rented or borrowed vehicle Owned vehicle Walking owned vehicle Do you find the your local highways high on traffic? Yes during certain times of the day How far from the closest highway do you live? 0-1 miles How often do you use a back road other then your driveway or street? Country? USA Daily In your opinion, should highways be improved? Yes Why do you use the highway? (pick as many chouses as you wish) To go from one end of town to the other mainly and to go up to the lake Age group: 21-40 Country that I live in: USA Last edited by Arien the Maia : 02-11-2004 at 12:24 AM. |
02-11-2004, 12:05 AM | #4 | |
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Re: Everything Highways- Project for School
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I don't know much about highways, but I will answer your questionnaire. How many times do you use the highway per day? 0-3 Approximately how fast do you go on the highway? 51-75 How old were you when you got your license? 16 How do you get around? owned vehicle Do you find the your local highways high on traffic? No How far from the closest highway do you live? 0-1 miles How often do you use a back road other then your driveway or street? Once a week In your opinion, should highways be improved? Yes Why do you use the highway? Go to school, go shopping, get to friends, other Age group: 10-20 Country that I live in: USA As you can see, I don't get out much. Hope that helped.
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02-11-2004, 12:06 AM | #5 |
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Here is information on some of New Jersey's famous highways.
About the New Jersey Turnpike About teh Garden State Parkway How many times do you use the highway per day? 0-3 Approximately how fast do you go on the highway? Over 75 MPH How old were you when you got your license? 17 How do you get around? Owned vehicle Do you find the your local highways high on traffic? No, but it depends on the time of day and the season. The Parkway is stand still traffic on Friday's during the sumer as people make their way to the shore. How far from the closest highway do you live? 6-15 miles How often do you use a back road other then your driveway or street? Daily In your opinion, should highways be improved? Yes Why do you use the highway? (pick as many chouses as you wish) Get to various places I have to go, Liberty State Park, Atlantic City - I mostly use back roads if I can though. Age group: 21-40 Country that I live in: USA
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02-11-2004, 12:50 AM | #6 |
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How many times do you use the highway per day?
0-3 Approximately how fast do you go on the highway? N/A How old were you when you got your license? I do not have my license How do you get around? Public transportation Walking Do you find the your local highways high on traffic? Yes How far from the closest highway do you live? 0-1 miles How often do you use a back road other than your driveway or street? Every other day In your opinion, should highways be improved? Yes Why do you use the highway? (pick as many chouses as you wish) Other Age group: 21-40 Country that you live in: New Zealand. Incidentally, unlike the US, and perhaps some other countries, our highways (we call 'em motorways) are usually made of asphalt or tar seal rather than the pavement stuff you mention (I'm assuming here that pavement = concrete?), because it is cheaper than concrete.
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02-11-2004, 01:01 AM | #7 | |
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02-11-2004, 01:46 AM | #8 | ||
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How many times do you use the highway per day?
0-3 Approximately how fast do you go on the highway? 51-75 MPH (I assume 100-120 km/h is in this category) How old were you when you got your license? 17 How do you get around? Public transportation and Walking (and Cycling) Do you find the your local highways high on traffic? Yes How far from the closest highway do you live? 6-15 miles How often do you use a back road other then your driveway or street? Less every other month In your opinion, should highways be improved? No (mostly) Why do you use the highway? (pick as many chouses as you wish) To get to work, Other Age group: 10-20 Country that you live in: Canada I don't know how highways specifically are built, but I can tell you about forestry roads. (Your average gravel road usually.) The top layer of the soil (organic) is removed to build the road. The mineral soil below has much better properties for building. (I took a course in this last term and I can't remember most of what I wanted to tell you.) Ballast is one of the construction materials. What kind of things do you need to know about road construction? I could dig out some old notes if they'd be at all helpful.
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02-11-2004, 04:36 AM | #9 |
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Here are some sites I found about Hitler and his autobahn. Don't know if they're very helpful though.
http://www.hitler.org/artifacts/autobahn/ http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/reichs.htm http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/rw00c.htm
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02-11-2004, 06:12 AM | #10 |
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Here ya go, but you need to remember that I am an American stationed in Germany, living in Iraq. None of this stuff is too current (at least a year old.)
How many times do you use the highway per day? 0-3 Approximately how fast do you go on the highway? 50-over 75 (I live in Germany, autobahns rule!) How old were you when you got your license? 15 (I was a farmer, farmers in minnesota get their licenses earlier) How do you get around? Owned Vehicle Do you find the your local highways high on traffic? No How far from the closest highway do you live? 2-5 Miles How often do you use a back road other then your driveway or street? Daily In your opinion, should highways be improved? yes Why do you use the highway? (pick as many chouses as you wish) Other Age group: 21-40 Country that you live in: Germany
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02-11-2004, 08:57 AM | #11 |
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I know that there's no 80-year-olds, but in some places, like where I live, we didn't get any hiqhways in our city untill 1966. We were the last city in America to get highways.
Thanks for your replys! (hopefully) my teacher will enjoy the fact that there's people from out of state and out of country on the survey! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I've gotta go to school now, but I'm gonna show my teacher the replyes I've gotten so far. Thanks
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02-11-2004, 03:32 PM | #12 |
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Thanks Nerdanel, I'm looking at the websites right now! (I'm at school!)
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02-11-2004, 07:14 PM | #13 |
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Hmmm... I know the U.S. interstate highway system was originally developed to be easily used by the military to rapidly and efficiently move eqiupment and troops between major cities ("just in case"). These highways also had (not sure if they still do) a requirement that every few miles, there must be a straight stretch of road--at least a mile long-- to facilitate the landing and take-off of military aircraft.
Not sure if you can use that, but it's interesting nonetheless.
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Yeah, Roman roads were really straight, but they didn't cut into hills. Some highways in England follow where the Roman road was, and most are still in really good shape.
We don't put nearly as much effort into building roads now.
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02-14-2004, 12:05 AM | #16 | |
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Please send in some moreanswers to my questionair. I really nead them for school. Unforchently, for whatever reason, by teacher said that I couldn't use the ones from out of the US in the report, but if you send in enoph replys from other countrys, then I can make a seprate chart. They won't count into the required 24, and I was really (and am really) mad about that, but tis the teacher's falt. Hope you don't fill mad or anything. If you do live in a different country, then send them in anyways and if I get about 10 replys (i've gotten 3 so far) from other countrys, then I'll make an extra chart. Sorry about my teacher. She wasn't in the best mood when I asked her.
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02-14-2004, 01:57 AM | #17 |
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Time to pay it forward, I guess. I posted a survey last semester for school, so I'll fill this one out for ya.
How many times do you use the highway per day? 0-3 Approximately how fast do you go on the highway? Over 75 MPH (really, between 70 and 80) How old were you when you got your license? 17 How do you get around? Public transportation Parents/Friends Walking (all three right now, because my car is in pieces on the garage floor) Do you find the your local highways high on traffic? No How far from the closest highway do you live? 6-15 miles How often do you use a back road other then your driveway or street? Less every other month In your opinion, should highways be improved? Yes Why do you use the highway? (pick as many chouses as you wish) Go to school Get to friends house Age group: 21-40 Country that you live in: USA (Washington STate (but I commute to Canada for school two or three times a week) |
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