Via Flickr:
Wildlife biologists and researchers estimate that vehicles may kill as many deer in Utah every year as hunters do.
(During the 2009 hunting season, hunters took about 23,000 deer.)
But it's the part of the population cars take that makes the difference.
Hunters take mostly bucks. But cars mostly kill the deer that are the key to the future growth of Utah's deer herds — does and fawns.
Fortunately, new and innovative road structures are helping reduce the number of deer that are hit and killed by cars in the state.
A proposal to pave a road through the Book Cliffs in eastern Utah is a good example of two things: the effect roads can have on deer, and steps transportation officials and wildlife biologists are taking to help deer out.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Deer-on-the-Road
Los-Angeles-Roads
Via Flickr:
In 1972 the average speed of cars on Los Angeles freeways was 60 miles per hour. Ten years later, the growing traffic problem dropped that number to 17 miles per hour.
The average American will spend two weeks of her life stopped at red lights.
To drive on all of the paved roads in the United States, you would have to drive nonstop at 100 miles per hour for over four years.
The first car insurance policy was issued in Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1897.
1967-Shelby-Mustang-GT-500
Via Flickr:
One of the original 1967 Mustang Shelby GT500 Eleanor that starred in the 2000 action hit movie “Gone in 60 Seconds” starring Nicolas Cage is up for sale on eBay. According to the current owner of the Eleanor, the producers of the film used a total of 11 Mustang GT500s. Of those 8 were shell cars and only 3 were actual running and driving examples and this is one of them.
Cars-in-U_S_A_
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There is about 1.023 cars per person in America. (That's about 1023 cars per every thousand people in America.) In China, there is only 9 cars per 1000 people. In India, 11 cars per 1000 people.