Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/August 2010


 * ...that Zzyzx Road (sign pictured) in California is the inspiration for two different films?
 * ...that Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crash landed on Interstate 94 outside of Detroit Metropolitan Airport in 1987?
 * ...that in the 1950s, four service plazas on the Garden State Parkway had uniformed female employees known as the "Park-ettes" whose duties included providing directions and other information to motorists as well as rendering odd bits of service such as sewing a missing button on a patron's coat?
 * ...that a "token war" between the Connecticut Turnpike and the New York City Subway developed in the 1980s when subway riders discovered that the turnpike's cheaper tokens fit in fare boxes?