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Road trip USA : cross-country adventures on America's two-lane highways
This work provides a comprehensive travel guide to the highways that crisscross America, and contains practical information and advice on accommodation, restaurants and attractions.
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LONG ISLAND TOPIC, A narrow issue that could have a big impact
A trio of Long Island landmarks represent this trend-setting role. The first has all but vanished, but serves as a useful history lesson: the 1906 Long Island Motor Parkway, built by railroad heir William K. Vanderbilt as the nation's first dedicated high-speed road, stretching 16-feet-wide from Queens toward Riverhead. Designed for racing and recreation, it proved to be too narrow and by the 1930s had been effectively replaced by the Northern State Parkway, part of Robert Moses' network of roadways that in many ways still define transportation in Nassau County. The issues behind Southold's proposed ban are complicated, but it's safe to say that the town has nothing against quaint roads per se. In fact, the entire North Fork owes a great deal of its charm, and the region's value as a tourist magnet, to the many roads that wind past tumbledown farm stands, vineyards and Victorian homes. The problem then is not aesthetic but one of function. By mandating wider roads, and thus increasing the cost of any new development, such rules would in effect slow down growth and relieve some pressure on the existing infrastructure. However, such a ban would not apply to the top end of the property market, where winding private driveways cross five-acre parcels to reach stately homes the likes of which most of us will never see. As such, it could make the North Fork into ever more of an elite preserve, affordable only by modern-day Gatsbys and Vanderbilts, thereby raising a raft of new concerns.
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California
Presents area-by-area information for travelers to California, including details on the state's history, landscape, sights to see, things to do, lodgings, and restaurants.
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