“Cars” may spark second thoughts about highway bypasses June 14, 2006
Posted by Ron in Highways, Movies.trackback
Earl Watt, the publisher of the Southwest Daily Times in Liberal, Kan., thinks the movie “Cars” provides “a great lesson for young and old alike.”
U.S. 54 runs through Liberal, and improvements to the road are being built south of town, so there’s not immediate danger.
However, the possibility that a future bypass could make Liberal a shadow of its former self like Radiator Springs did when the interstate bypassed it isn’t lost on Watt.
The whole thing is exemplary. Read it here.
I love this site
I’d rank the US-54 drive as a great one. Liberal, of course, has the Wizard of Oz house and I love how they got the name of Liberal.
I’ve now done 54 from Tucumcari to its eastern terminus in western Illinois near that great town of Pittsfield. That is, we’ve driven it except for a stretch between the Kansas/Missouri line to the Lake of the Ozarks. I’d classify much of it as a mini-interstate.
Keep on Down that Two Lane Highway. –RoadDog