citynoise.org
What is Citynoise?..... Today's posts..... This month..... Recent Comments..... Contact..... RSS Feed.... Post your own Citynoise.....
http://www.citynoise.org  

browse by city

5Brooklyn, NY (848)
New York, NY (803)
Toronto, ON (769)
Montreal, QC (398)
London, UK (299)
complete city list

popular articles

Society 2000
from: Peter
Old Harlem, New Harlem
from: Peter
Even the Trains Are Crooked in Brownsville
from: Peter
Riverside Gantry
from: Peter
Happy New Year
from: TCL
what's hot this month?

recent articles

Lines and Shadows
from: Peter
Tombstones
from: Peter
Frozen Forty
from: Peter
Vanishing Point
from: Peter
No Longer Hidden
from: Tyfoid Kid
Apex Airtronics, Inc.
from: Peter
The Mississippi Sleeps
from: Tyfoid Kid
Cloudy and Clear
from: jack
Little Wing
from: Peter
Rise Of The Afternoon Moon
from: groovehouse
read all today's articles

browse by author

Peter (857)
joey (285)
EvilGentleman (270)
jack (254)
hool (247)
complete author list

hot topics

Justo Gallego
graffiti
JA One
sane smith
graf trux
wheat paste
sixy
nyc
Top 10 largest cities in canada
harlem
banksy
new york
parkour
زب
brooklyn

Comments about highways

There are 30 comments about "highways"

river otters21 girl: It is a darn shame to see hear what happened to Kensington. Oh, I agree with YourOwnFault 100% except that this cancer known as white flight took place more recently than the 50s and......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

EvilGentleman: dirana1, thank you for commenting. I can respect your opinions and your insight into the prison is a welcome bit of education for the rest of us. I am certain you know a lot more......

in response to: Kingston Penitentiary by EvilGentleman

JBone f.b.w.: i started writing back in 91,and remember ja was the king of the A line,he killed all the train stations and roof tops in far rockaway,him and eu,at the beggining i tought he was local,then......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

Rob Patten: Just to add there are photos of the refurbished train on the Cadishead Way bypass on the Salford web site: [[http://www.salford.gov.uk/business/design/engineering/highways/cadisheadway-stage-2/cws2-photos.htm]] Under 'Photographs 2005' the second and third links show it in its new paint. There is also......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

EvilGentleman: Ah yes, I know this run well. Journeyed from Nunavut to Winnipeg by plane, then to Montreal and back by Greyhound. With my son, who was age six at the time. And that was all......

in response to: Greyhound Stops Along the 17 by walkhere

EvilGentleman: We were lucky here. Our IKEA is located in a commercial/industrial area wedged between two highways and the airport. Exactly where it belongs....

in response to: Ikea\'s Watery Shadow by CartLegger

EvilGentleman: Wow! Just wow! Great post, TK. As far as the "20/20 hindsight" inspections of other structures **after** the collapse goes, we have the same thing happening here. After the overpass collapse that killed 5 people in September......

in response to: Bridge Removal by Tyfoid Kid

EvilGentleman: The art/vandalism debate will go on forever, because both sides are correct. Many graffiti pieces are unquestionably artistic masterpieces. I have seen many pieces that are absolutely mind-boggling, provoke intelligent thought and debate, and are just......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

EvilGentleman: Perhaps someone should post a series on "America's Most Boring Interstate Highways"...

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 1 by Scott Sargent

gingha: i used to live in oklahoma city. the thing the makes norman, and the greater oklahoma city area seem lackluster is because of its relative regional proximity to the dallas/ft. worth area, and also because......

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 1 by Scott Sargent

EvilGentleman: That pic I took, I actually got out of the car, had a cigarette, took a picture, read a little bit, then hopped back into the car. Nobody had moved yet. jack - maybe it should......

in response to: Traffic by CE

EvilGentleman: LOL, fair enough, since you encounter Decarie daily and I encounter Cote-de-Liesse daily. In all honesty, I usually hate the Decarie Expressway more, but today was special. At one point, I moved 3 metres in......

in response to: Traffic by CE

ea: lightning strikes and missing you heat dreams of animals wounding one another with human tools palms rattling my sense of being coagulating risk the risk arterial fist thump bumping keep roll hum drumming over highways time slides sideways and when I wake......

in response to: Hotel Detail by ea

EvilGentleman: Actually, on the road map of Quebec, Highway 132 follows the south coast of the Saint Lawrence River, then curves around the Gaspe peninsula until it intersects itself at Mont-Joli. I have no idea how......

in response to: Confused? by jeeff

Elicar: I agree with Get out of your car, buddy! Toronto is one of the top 10 best cities to live in the whole world. Suburbanites, here's something for you to ponder about. Have YOU ever......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Get out of your car, buddy.: Toronto must be a tale of two cities. If you live in the inner city, it fits like a comfortable old shoe. There are few places in the world that can boast such......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

jenna: I live in Toronto and I have been fortunate to travel a fair bit. I have to say that desipte my love of Toronto ... the urban planning here is horrible. We have nice cityscape.........

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

EvilGentleman: Ahhh, driver education. I remember my first time behind the wheel. Everything was fine, till I reached the end of the block. I managed to do a 140 degree right turn into an empty lot......

in response to: You Have Failed by torontofreelance

GGP: On cold days, the smoke from smokestacks looks even more potent and portentious than usual. Here is one of my poems about smokestacks. INDUSTRIAL TRINITY Three squat smokestacks cinched a little at the waist will always evoke Three Mile......

in response to: Milorganite(tm) by Bleeagh

jack: the old williamsburg bank. i went there many times in the fifties with my aunt. as i pass thru the highways around brooklyn i often see that tower and realize it may now......

in response to: Regional by GGP

Mugs: One thing I find hilarious is you people from the city, crying bloody murder when it comes to littering, while your garbage is trucked by the tonne down rural highways into the states. How nice......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

NO ONE DESERVES TO GET BEATEN: It's disappointing to read and see what transpired between Leah and the motorist, involving, and endangering the lives of themselves and those around them. It is even more disappointing to read the comments here endorsing......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Kevin: HEY FAT ASS!-What do you mean you're not a motorist, what do you do walk everywhere or hitchhike? This asshole would not have had his litter throw back at him, if he had thrown it......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

a: i dont get it keep dallas safe from what, the graffiti writers......?oh i forget the kill people and do other crimes like that!!! i wish they would worry about bigger stuff then some dumb shit......

in response to: Dallas Graffiti Like What! by Tick Tock

Peter: jeeff: why is neckface so notorious? well, how can i put this delicately... he had a few very visible ups in some really hot spots in brooklyn. add a few graf-scenester/williamsburg hipsters who flicked them......

in response to: Fuck Neck Face by sine

Peter: nice. airplanes over highways... i love shots of how incoming/outgoing flight traffic lines up with the rest of the scenery....

in response to: freeway & airport a citynoise intersection by jyk

Peter: i like where you said: ##"...art will happen in spite of industry and flowers will grow up along highways..."##...

in response to: landmark by ea

fuzzytank: for some reason you and my class readings are pretty much in sync.... "The advantage of straight through-streets has been recognized since Aristotle, and a rectilinear street pattern has also been restored to keep under watch......

in response to: police and thieves in the streets, oh yeah by elaine

Peter: the uk has a much better nomenclature system for its motorways than america does. im sure ours made sense way back when, but since teh nationwide interstate highway program in the 1950s, everything got muddled.........

in response to: Motorway Haiku: UK (Part One) by Jamie

Peter: this is a great entry, marc. thanks for showing up on this site... im fascinated by much of what you wrote, and indeed, couldnt have put it any better in regards to hacking-via-transportation... ive often thought......

in response to: Hack the City by Marc

search citynoise.org

recent discussions

Broadway Junction Graf
from: Peter
Somebody's Watching Me
from: Peter
72nd Street Subway Station
from: Peter
My Old Office
from: Peter
Tombstones
from: Peter
Glasgow Subway Pre-and-During Modernisation
from: Gap74
Bayside Acacia Cemetery
from: NWhyC
Nice Penny, Nice People
from: Peter
Italian Women
from: Ilona
Apex Airtronics, Inc.
from: Peter

from the archives

Going Up


People often comment on the fact that Houston is the largest city in the United States without ordinances, musing, "a developer could build a in your if they wanted." No one ever expects it to actually happen. This: Will go...

Going Up

recently viewed

No Questions B4 Nine
from: GGP
More WithTheFriends Graffiti
from: SCAM28
The Top 10 Canadian Skylines
from: CE
View from My Office in Calgary
from: Helen
Mirror 1
from: Selig
Tombstones
from: Peter
Untitled Outfield
from: joey
Tokyo Architecture
from: Chris Jongkind
Calvacade of Lights
from: Michelle
Operation Magic Kingdom
from: Catherine Penfold-Waxman