Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/August 2010

...that Zzyzx Road (sign pictured) in California is the inspiration for two different films?
...that Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crash landed on Interstate 94 outside of Detroit Metropolitan Airport in 1987?
...that in the 1950s, four service plazas on the Garden State Parkway had uniformed female employees known as the "Park-ettes" whose duties included providing directions and other information to motorists as well as rendering odd bits of service such as sewing a missing button on a patron's coat?
...that a "token war" between the Connecticut Turnpike and the New York City Subway developed in the 1980s when subway riders discovered that the turnpike's cheaper tokens fit in fare boxes?