Transportation in Music
Originally a rhythm and blues piece that has been subsequently covered by many artists, this American classic song about an American classic road encourages listeners to 'Get their Kicks on _______'
What is Route 66?
Signs of this color indicate construction activity
What is orange?
In the city of Youngstown, Ohio (just over Pennsylvania's western border), it's illegal to run out of this important vehicle fluid.
The largest American commercial airplane manufacturer
What is Boeing?
These are the four free campus services operated by CATA
What are the Blue & White Loops and the Red & Green Links?
This 1973 Motown hit by Gladys Knight and the Pips describes a young couple going home after L.A. proved to be too much for them on a 'Midnight ______ to Georgia'
What is a train?
This is the shape of the Pennsylvania State Route sign.
What is a keystone?
In California, your mom (or any other woman) could be fined for driving you to school in this early morning garment.
What is a housecoat? (Or bathrobe?)
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This is the name of Penn State's bikeshare program, now in its second year.
This song, originally by Tom Cochrane and famously covered by Rascal Flatts for the 2006 animated film Cars, says that 'life is a _______'
What is highway?
In Canada, distances to destinations on guide signs seem so much higher than in the US for this reason.
What is the fact that the signs are in kilometers?
In several US states including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Indiana, and Minnesota, you are not allowed to buy this on Sundays.
What is a car?
What is I-90?
CATA stands for this
Centre Area Transportation Authority
This 2005 song by The Fray includes losing an argument in this transportation vehicle, commonly used to summit mountains.
What is a cable car?
These are the three colors on an Interstate Route Shield.
What are blue, white and red?
In Florida, it is illegal to leave an elephant, goat, or alligator tied to a parking meter unless you do this.
What is pay the parking meter?
The current secretary of the United States Department of Transportation
Who is Elaine Chao?
I-99 north of State College carries these two US Routes concurrently with it
What are US 220 and US 322?
The lyrics of this 1977 Steve Miller Band song hopes that this modern mode of transportation 'won't carry me too far away'.
What is a 'jet airliner'/airplane
Name the three categories of signs according to the MUTCD
What are guide, regulatory, and warning?
In Alabama, it is illegal to drive while ______.
What is blindfolded?
Who is Leslie Richards?
Who is Rob DeMayo?