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While state transportation departments around the country have been scrambling in anticipation of a potential Highway Trust Fund insolvency, Florida…
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A drive down I-95 is full of dozens, probably hundreds, of tiny design decisions that are ultimately about driver attention. From the lettering on a road…
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Alyce and Neil Robertson were running late to a wedding one day 20 or 30 years ago. Because they were running late, they were arguing in the car, until…
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Brian Rick is on a crusade. As a spokesman for the Florida Department of Transportation he has chewed the ear of dozens, maybe a hundred people --…
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We spend a lot of time together on the road, you (audience) and us (WLRN). If you’re like most of our listeners, we’re with you in the car just about…
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As part of our End of the Road series -- about the final 87 miles of I-95 -- we’ve asked a lot of questions: Why don’t people seem to get in trouble for…
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This story originally ran on February 12, 2014.They write songs about roads: "Route 66," "Highway 61 Revisited"."Dusty, old roads with iconic signage that…
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The maximum possible toll on 95 Express increased from $7 to $10.50 on March 1. Two days later at 5:30 p.m., the cost of using the northbound express…
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NOTE: Author Tony Dokoupil will be speaking at the Miami Book Fair International on Sunday, November 23rd at 5:30.Like many born in the '50s, Interstate…
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Interstate 95 inspires more than just four-letter words, it turns out.Twenty five years ago, poet A.R. Ammons and his wife were driving home from a visit…
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There’s a good chance you’ve seen the work of Elisabeth Hassett and an equally good chance you didn’t really notice it. Hassett is the landscape architect…
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If you wrote a play about road rangers or made a quilt from fallen mattress, or glued together a Fabergé-style egg from pieces of shattered headlights,…