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	America’s Most Paved Places

Newfman

5-6-2007 7:57 AM

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5-6-2007 6:46 PM

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oh I gotta represent kings county brookyln!

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Along with being the nation’s capital, Washington D.C. leads the country when it comes to pavement: It has the least amount of open space between roads of any U.S. county. 
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By contrast, the study finds that Keweenaw County in Michigan offers the most room between the roads of all U.S. counties. 
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Counties with the least space: 
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	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Washington, D.C</LI>
	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Saint Louis City, Missouri</LI>
	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Kings County (<A href="http://www.livescience.com/othernews/061205_ap_sidewalk_collapse.html">Brooklyn</A>)</LI>
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Counties with the most space: 
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	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Keweenaw County, Michigan</LI>
	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana</LI>
	<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana</LI></UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/othernews/070503_roadless_space.html">
With more than 4 million miles of roads in the United States, the farthest you can venture from a road is 22 miles (unless you’re wandering around Alaska or the swamps of Louisiana)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/othernews/070503_roadless_space.html">The only place you can be 22 miles away from road in the contiguous states is a spot in the southeast corner of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/88CEC9B8-96F9-4BAA-A8CB-CE3CC1FAD0FF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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