Random (but not really)

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Up and Down and All Around

If you’ve only seen WV on a map, you may wonder why it takes so long to get from one place to another. After all, in DC and other urban settings you have to contend with traffic. But this is WV, and we don’t have hour long traffic jams (even football game Saturdays in Morgantown aren’t that bad.)

But what we do have are roads that follow the contour of the land. Here is Interstate 79, which runs pretty much the length of WV.

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Don’t get my wrong, I far prefer this to the alternatives. But it is why distances that seem so short on a map are far longer than you’d expect in situ.

Also, for those who fly a lot, here’s the end of the runway for Yeager Airport in Charleston as seen from I79.

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