A road is a linear way for the conveyance of traffic that typically has an improved surface for use by vehicles and pedestrians. Unlike streets, the primary function of roads is transportation.[1]
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Roads are part of a general discussion in the documentary. Firstly discussed in 1 year after people, roads see one of the first physical effects in the absence of people according to John Hadidian. Ray Coppinger stated that any place where sunlight hits start getting some plant growth especially in the cracks and so forth, causing the plants to creep.
The documentary produces stating that weeds like dandelions would infiltrate every crack in the pavement, and as they die, their remnants combine with moss and lichen create a new layer of topsoil, this begins to cover the roads of San Telmo.
By 5 years after people, the show stated that roads begins to disappear beneath the green map of the earth as plant life is onslaught against the roads where humans once built.
It was feature again in 25 years after people, that roads usually hunt the animals before stating that three million miles of paved road in the United States alone and many of them cut right through the paths of animals. Scott Creel stated that when a landscape is good for animal movement, it also is easy for an engineer to build a road, causing to cut off much of major migration in North America. One of the animals is the grizzly bear, their habitat have been carved up roads forcing them to confined in isolated pockets, cutting them off from food sources and potential mates. But in a Life After People, the roads are no longer barriers for the grizzly as the pathways are now trails to lead them back into the heart of their former range, and a grizzly crossed the Golden Gate Bridge.
Armed and Defenseless[]
In Armed & Defenseless, the roads were specifically commented on in Oahu in 50 years after people, where the roads leading from Honolulu to Pearl Harbor are overtaken by jungle. Sam 'Ohu Gon explains that in order to imagine that the roads of Honolulu would look like, one must visit the old Pali road, closed in 1960 is a vestige of the center line, and the vegetation from the mountain has encroached all the way to that point. He continues that further down, it encroaches from both sides until just a narrow winding path between.
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