Building roads is an adventure and it can make for great stories. Take Orlando's Southern Connector now better known as FL-417 or the southern portion of the Central Florida Greeneway. Located on the southern fringe of the developed area it was a dicey finance back in the late 1980s when it was planned... MORE
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An IBTTA meeting a millenium back wouldn't have many attendees in suits and ties. It would have had big bunches of clergymen and military officers. In medieval England at least the church heavily into tolling. And the military? London on the Thames (pron 'Tems') River has had a bridge since soon after the Romans founded the city near where estuarial saltwater meets...MORE
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