Question

List 8 facts for each transportation type discussed.

Answer 1

HIGHWAY
1. A drive to Utopia gave us green
interstate highway signs .
2. Spilled milk gave us center lines on the road .
3. Stop lights were invented by cops who were tired of almost being run over.
4. Stop signs are diamonds with the points chopped off.
5. The yellow light solved a Jarring problem.
6. The first Yew York city subway was Illegal.
7. Jersey barriers are not from New Jersey.
8. Potholes are a redundancy.

AIRPORTS
1. Often sell lost luggage.
2. Landing slots are a huge business.
3. Airports are designed to stop you from getting lost.
4. Airports can make Airlines look punctual.
5. Air traffic controller towers are a peaceful place.
6. Airport operators deliberately keep queues longer.
7. The letter X in airport codes don’t mean anything.
8. Cash exchange rates at Airports are terrible .

RAILROADS
1. The term “horsepower” originated as a marketing tool.
2. Americans first steam locomotive lost a race to a horse.
3. Trains helped the north win the American Civil War.
4. Abraham Lincoln‘s assassination helped publicize train travel.
5. The worlds first travel agency got its start thanks to a train trip.
6. The railroads also gave us standardized time zones.
7. The miles of railroad track in the United States reaches its peak in 1916.
8. Today’s bullet train can top 300 mph.

PORTS
1. Its the backbone of the global economy.
2. Ukraine,India,China, Philippines,Indonesia, and The Russian federation provide majority of the manpower.
3. 5174 the number of the ship and it stays in the water more then any other ship.
4.In a year the container ship travels 75% of the distance to the moon and back.
5. Three of the top five ports are in China .
6.Shipping Industry was the first to follow International safety standards.
7. A container ship can carry 15,000 TEUs filled with bananas.
8. Los Angeles has the largest US port.