At the Trenton Battle Monument, the road reaches an intersection with the southern terminus of Route 31 and US 206 turns northeast onto another one-way pairing that follows Brunswick Avenue northbound and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard southbound, with each road being two-way but only carrying one direction of US 206.
They did not want the traffic or congestion that would come with greater visibility, and they worried that the government would block access to local residents who largely used the monument's roads as a shortcut between town and their homes on the other side.
If you visit: Aztec Ruins National Monument 725 Ruins Road Aztec, NM 87410 (505) 334-6174.
This was perhaps a new monument, I thought; roads long ago replaced the river as the main artery of commerce.
The zek engineers and builders who made the hand-constructed bridges should be recognized and their photographs placed on monuments beside the road, and the whole Topolinskaya Highway, for all its hundred and eighty-nine kilometres, should be declared a historic district, and the graves, of which there may be many, should be found and marked and given requiem.
Various other books have been devoted to the aesthetics of monument inscriptions or antique road and store signs, yet this is the most instructive comparative study I've read in connecting form to function.
Mr. Levy described how Mikhail Beketov dared to write about how local officials in the Moscow suburb of Khimki had demolished a Soviet war monument to widen a road and the local government's plans to plow a major highway through a forest.
Muir Woods National Monument, 1 Muir Woods Road, Mill Valley; (415) 388-2595, http://www.nps.gov/muwo.
The road through the monument connects with Wupatki National Monument, which has the remains of pueblos built by several ancient peoples.
