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Information Is BeautifulRevealing cross section of a road in England
Mike ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ช๐บ@infobeautiful
I think the designer of that graphic needs to read "Roads Were Not Built For Cars" by Carlton Reid.
https://roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/
Alex Head@infobeautiful not a lot makes me miss England but damn the Bronze Age looks good here
Hugo Mills@infobeautiful A303 See Other Road.
Andrew@infobeautiful I long to return to the squid highways
bookworks ๐@infobeautiful Wow. I can nerd-out on this stuff.
Josh@infobeautiful on a lot of Britain's roads, you can see (and feel) both the modern A road and the bronze age trackways simultaneously!
steeznson@infobeautiful In my home town of Edinburgh sometimes the tarmac wears away and exposes the beautiful cobbled roads that the council just covered because it was cheaper to maintain.
Coding Cottagecore BogwitchWhen I lived in Edinburgh one of my flatmates put up a street map for cyclists on the kitchen wall - it had all the streets that were still cobbled highlighted in red so you could avoid cycling down them
@forestpines @infobeautiful Ah I never considered the cyclist's perspective. Maybe it wasn't just the council being cheap.
Katie@steeznson @infobeautiful @forestpines and my wife just *loves* it when she has to take her wheelchair over cobbles! XD
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@Kestenan @infobeautiful @forestpines I'd honestly not ever considered cyclists or wheelchair users when thinking about this before but it makes complete sense. My natural suspicion of the council took over and assumed they must be trying to take a shortcut to maintenance at the expense of aesthetics.
@forestpines @steeznson @infobeautiful I used to be the same, before the need for a wheelchair, but Iโve learned to love tarmac! Did you know itโs one of the most recycled materials we use? It DOES make road maintenance cheep and easy; scrape it up, melt it, add a little more, and lay it down.
@infobeautiful No pot-holes....
ADHDel-DRAFT-v10-final (2).doc@infobeautiful @X31Andy The A303. Now only for people with Lamborghinis
Raglan Niall 
@del @infobeautiful @X31Andy That's a Jaguar XJ220. Terrible at everything and made a huge loss for Jaguar. It's a classic tale of greed and miss-timing the market.
Paul@infobeautiful the A303 runs past Stonehenge and has pretty much been a road for the entire time since that was constructed :D
joe@infobeautiful
He he, squid way
He he, squid way
viharm@infobeautiful, where is this?
Mike P@infobeautiful The earliest roads were built by giant squid. It was only later that the reindeer developed the technology to resurface them.
Tony Kennick@infobeautiful this is why the cartridge is so large.
Baloo Uriza@infobeautiful Now I have 303 by Blur stuck in my head.
Cluster Fcku@infobeautiful when I see these Earth cross sections my mind thinks that perhaps the next road layer will be built on a substrate of million year old squeezed plastic and ewaste covered by dry compacted erosion dust. Too many people don't quite understand how precious it is what we have here now.
the flexorcist ๐คฎ@infobeautiful in order to educate kids by writing notes on a chalkboard, you have to destroy at least 6 roads first. the message is clear: kids need to stop learning or else all of our roads will be gone forever.
Ophitoxaemia@infobeautiful Is the car on the modern road a Jaguar XJ220? ?
jordan@infobeautiful welp that's pretty cool
Jon GerdesOne day all the Somerset sections of the 303 will get their much needed upgrade to Bronze Age trackway.
Ada Luchthonn ฮธโ@infobeautiful going back to a time when cephalopods ruled over England