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Superhighway!

The Dig

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The History of Highway Development

Roads are not just one thing because they traverse places. You might be on a surface that seems like it's the same thing for 100 miles, but underneath you, the way it's engineered into the landscape might be radically different as you traverse different. Soils and hydrologies and geologies. The challenge of designing roads that would be able to exist in all weathers, in all extremes of temperature, in all landscapes,. That's a pretty big deal. And they go everywhere, which means that everywhere is affected.

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