Re: What does a viatologist study?

%steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) writes:

> Matthew Russotto <russotto@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> > In article <w9zaaz31nre.fsf@zipcon.net>,
> > Patrick Scheible  <kkt@zipcon.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >Yes, but I bet it's studied like an engineering discipline: how figure
> > >out what their capacity would be, how to make them safer, how to build
> > >them less expensively to last a long time.  Not just pretend they're
> > >some sort of natural phenomenon to take pictures of and leave it at
> > >that.
> >
> > That would be roadgeeking.  But Carl doesn't even make it to that
> > level.
>
> His (lack of) talent is quite astonishing. He had links on his webshite
> to roads that I know well, I don't want to dive into his cesspit again
> or add to his hit count, so I'll not give a blow by blow description.
> However I regularly drive through Switzerland to Central Italy. I do so
> several times a year, all seasons, all conditions using mountain passes,
> tunnels, autoroutes, autostrade, national and local raods.
>
> The routes, all of them, are stunning. Many of them are quite simply
> engineering miracles. Such as this, the road to Chamonix:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yfxve8f
>
> The Ponte del Salinello in Abruzzo:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yfb2rp3
>
> and wandering further afield, the Milau viaduct:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yjf6fyr
>
>
> There is the stunning Stelvio Pass:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yk9fdsu
>
> In fact wherever one looks from Basel to Bari and from Bordeaux to
> Trieste there are roads of exceptional design, breathtaking vistas and
> intriguing constructional techniques.

Thanks for posting the links.  (Why does it seem beautiful road
structures are the rule there and the exception here?  Okay, we have
the Golden Gate Bridge, and the 1930s Highway 1 bridges, but most of
them are boring and utilitarian.)

-- Patrick
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