| 词条 | Roadgeek |
| 释义 |
}}{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2014}} A roadgeek (from road + geek) is an individual involved in "roadgeeking" or "road enthusiasm"—an interest in roads, and especially going on road trips, as a hobby. A person with such an interest is also referred to as a road enthusiast, road buff, roadfan or Roads Scholar, the latter being a play on the term Rhodes Scholar.[1]{{Failed verification|date=January 2014}} InterestRoadgeeks view their interest as an appreciation of engineering and planning feats: {{cquote|We're interested in all the effort that goes into making roads. The railways in this country get an awful lot of press as great engineering achievements. Roads aren't seen in that way, but it wasn't always so. In the 1950s and 1960s they were part of a brave new era. Back then it was something to get excited about. They actually put people on buses and drove up and down them to have a look...|author=Steven Jukes[2]}}However roadgeeks are not necessarily interested in motor vehicles;[2] there may also be an interest in cartography and map design. Enthusiasts may focus on a single activity related to roads, such as driving the full length of the highway system in a specific area, researching the history, planning and quirks of a particular road or national highway system. They occasionally are quoted in the press on topics related to the history of roads.[3] Sometimes, road geeks are called "highway historians" for the knowledge and interests.[4] Even the numbering system can be a subject of deep interest, as Joe Moran describes in his book "On Roads: A Hidden History": {{cquote|On the online discussion forum of SABRE, the Society for All British Road Enthusiasts" (sic), the 1400-odd Sabristi often debate about where the M25 starts and whether it is correctly numbered, or why the motorway from Carlisle to Glasgow is called both the M74 and the A74(M). In road-numbering lore, the absence of pattern—the discovery that there are so many exceptions to rules that the rules might as well not exists—only seems to revivify the search for inner mysteries. Road buffs talk in reverential tones about "David Craig Numbers" - the elegant theory, named after the man who proposed it, that three digit numbers derive from the roads they connect.[5]}} Activity{{refimprove section|date=January 2014}}{{original research|section|date=January 2014}}Example activities include:
OnlineIn 2002, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that road enthusiasm was an Internet phenomenon. There is a Usenet newsgroup, misc.transport.road, where participants discuss all facets of roads and road trips from "construction projects to quirks and inconsistencies in signage".[10] These individuals who anticipated each Rand McNally road atlas release each year found a community of others online who were also interested in roads as a hobby. These communities of people could share photos, swap their thoughts on the highways in their areas and "debate the finer points of interchange design".[9] Yahoo Groups and ForumsThere are several Yahoo Groups dedicated to Roadgeek activities, including the {{cite web|url=https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/roadgeek/info |title=Roadgeek YahooGroup}} group itself and many regional or special interest groups. Web based forums are also popular; the largest is {{cite web|url=http://www.aaroads.com/forum/ |title=AARoads Forum}} SABREStarted in 1999, the Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts (SABRE), originally known as "Study and Appreciation of the British Roads Experience",[10] is one of the larger and most prominent communities of road enthusiasts online.[11] The organization hosts a large collection of articles and histories of particular roads and terminology, online photo galleries, discussion forums,[12] and an application to overlay and compare historical roadmaps.[10] Although SABRE is primarily an online group, members organize group tours to visit sites of interest.[2] Taiwan websitesIn 2006, a board called "Road" ({{zh|公路板}}) in the PTT Bulletin Board System, which is a Taiwanese forum, was established.[13] Because some Taiwanese road enthusiasts didn't know how to use a terminal or BBS reader to access it, the web forum Taiwan Highway Club ({{zh|公路邦}}; literally, "Highway State") was started in 2008;[14] it contains subforums allowing users to discuss road policies, and to add news about, and post pictures of, highways.[15] However, since the online community service by Pixnet was discontinued in 2012, the site moved to http://www.twroad.org/. Relationship with governmentsIn Taiwan, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications' Directorate General of Highways ({{lang|zh|公路總局}}) has held occasional Road Fan Conferences ({{lang|zh|公路迷座談會}}) since 2011 to allow roadfans and highway transportation-related organizations to make suggestions to the government.[16] Roadgeek websites (partial)
See also{{portal|Roads|U.S. Roads|Canada Roads}}
References1. ^{{cite news|last=Wear |first=Ben |url=http://www.houstonfreeways.com/statesman_2004-12-12.htm |title=Road to Future or a Dead End |work=Austin American-Statesman |date=December 12, 2004 |accessdate=January 20, 2007 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060905172529/http://www.houstonfreeways.com/statesman_2004-12-12.htm |archivedate=September 5, 2006 }} 2. ^1 2 {{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/2732679/Never-mind-the-trainspotters.html |title=Never Mind the Trainspotters |last=Gupta |first=Lila Das |date= January 17, 2005 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |accessdate= April 9, 2009}} 3. ^{{cite news |url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1224682/M1-motorway-Watford-Gap-service-station-celebrate-50-years.html |title= M1 and Watford Gap Celebrate 50 Years...with a 6p Cup of Tea |last= Gordon |first= Sarah |date= November 2, 2009 |work= The Daily Mail |location = London |accessdate=June 21, 2011}} 4. ^{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Matthew |title=Looking Back: I-496 Construction, a Complicated Legacy |work=Lansing State Journal |date=February 22, 2009 |pages=1A, 8A}} 5. ^{{cite book |last= Moran |first= Joe |authorlink= Joe_Moran_(social_historian) |title= On Roads: A Hidden History |edition= Hardcover |page= 77 |year= 2009 |publisher= Profile Books |location = London |isbn= 1-84668-052-2}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.triskele.com/highway-heaven/my-clinched-freeways |work=Mike the Actuary's Musings |title=My Clinched Freeways |accessdate= November 16, 2007 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821162737/http://www.triskele.com/highway-heaven/my-clinched-freeways |archivedate= August 21, 2008}} 7. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40612-2005Feb20.html |first=John |last=Kelly |title=A Long Way to Go for a Refund |work=Washington Post |page= C11 |date=February 21, 2005 |accessdate= June 27, 2008}} 8. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.n1en.org/Pages/Roadgeek.aspx |title=Roadgeek Fonts |work=Michael Adams' Blog |accessdate= December 19, 2014}} 9. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/SL/lib00170,0F63781FF9F53473.html |title='Road Geeks' Ramp Up Their Hobby on the Information Superhighway |first=William |last=Lamb |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=September 22, 2002 |page= C1 |accessdate= July 20, 2008}} {{subscription required}} 10. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/|title=Society: About Us |publisher=Society for All British Road Enthusiasts |accessdate= June 21, 2011}} 11. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/round-the-bend-how-we-became-a-nation-of-roadies-755067.html |title=Round the Bend? How We Became a Nation of Roadies |last=Milmo |first=Cahal |date=October 29, 2004 |work=The Independent |location=London |accessdate=April 9, 2009}} 12. ^{{cite web|last=Greenacre |first=Simon |url=http://www.totalvauxhall.co.uk/2008/09/10/society_for_all_british_road_enthusiasts/ |title=Society for All British Road Enthusiasts |work=Total Vauxhall |date=September 10, 2008 |accessdate=June 14, 2011 |location=Gloucester |publisher=A & S Publishing |issn=1474-1393 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110619010858/http://www.totalvauxhall.co.uk/2008/09/10/society_for_all_british_road_enthusiasts |archivedate=June 19, 2011 |df= }} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Road/M.1147757235.A.5C7.html|script-title=zh:公告 公路板開了~ |trans-title=|language= Chinese |publisher=Road board of PTT Bulletin Board System |accessdate= September 30, 2011}} 14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Road/M.1200406345.A.69F.html|script-title=zh:【公路邦】成立 |trans-title=|language= Chinese |publisher=Road board of PTT Bulletin Board System |accessdate= September 30, 2011}}{{zh-tw}} 15. ^{{cite web|url=http://road.club.pixnet.net/forum |title=公路邦 > 討論區首頁 |accessdate=September 30, 2011 |publisher=公路邦 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904021116/http://road.club.pixnet.net/forum |archivedate=September 4, 2011 |df= }} 16. ^{{cite web|url=http://public.thb.gov.tw/epaper/Sites/Page/12?pgid=249|title=官民合作‧大道開闊 公路總局舉辦第二次公路迷座談會|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405094357/http://public.thb.gov.tw/epaper/Sites/Page/12?pgid=249|archivedate=April 5, 2016|df=mdy-all}}{{zh}} 17. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.faqs.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/misc/misc.transport.misc|title=RFD unmoderated group misc.transport.misc|last=Herron|first=Kenneth|date=November 27, 1995|work=Internet FAQ Archives|publisher=Advameg|format=TXT|accessdate=August 16, 2009}} Further reading{{refbegin}}
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