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From: Otto Yamamoto on 2 May 2010 16:34 On Sat, 01 May 2010 15:00:15 -0700, Stewart wrote: > Maybe "Previous exit, Smithville". > > > How about "Smithville, that-a-way ->" Or: "Ya Can't Get Theah from Heah' -- Otto Yamamoto
From: Larrybud on 4 May 2010 15:15 larry_scholnick <larry_scholnick(a)yahoo.com> wrote in news:c2887ee2-abce-47cb-b28e-4aba89af496d(a)6g2000prg.googlegroups.co m: > You are driving along a freeway and you see a sign of the > following type: > > Destination > Next Exit (or Next Right) > > You take that next Exit/Right and then the exit splits - East > vs. West, North vs. South, or whatever - and there's no clue as > to whether the previously signed Destination is to Left or to > the Right at the split. > > Someone in the highway department should be shot, or at least > forced to stand out there directing hapless motorists which way > to go to get to the destination. Not quite the same, but off North I-75 in Michigan, you have Exit 81, which is M-24, and a few miles north (Exit 93), you have US 24. Wouldn't want to be the guy who received directions which say "Go north on 75 until you reach 24..."
From: Matthew Russotto on 8 May 2010 17:31 In article <hrfupr$fn4$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Brent <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Autobahn signage shows a little map to give drivers half a clue. It also >uses cities instead of often misleading compass directions. For >instance, in chicago N-S expressways are labeled E-W because they are >E-W across the whole country, but they don't resume their E-W course >until they are out of IL. I'm not sure cities would help there either... directions labeled "New York" and "Los Angeles" are no better than East/West if you're trying to figure out how to go north or south. -- The problem with socialism is there's always someone with less ability and more need.
From: Steve Sobol on 8 May 2010 20:51 In article <84m66rFujqU1(a)mid.individual.net>, lfsheldon(a)gmail.com says... > > I am for both number and city or location that is likely to be a > destination or one that I will recognize as enroute to my destination > ("control city" often fails either or both). Sometimes they make no sense, even when they don't fail both tests. Victorville has a population of over 100,000, Barstow has a population of just 25,000, yet... guess which town is the control city on northbound I-15 in Riverside and San Bernardino counties? Yeah, yeah, the 15/40 junction is in Barstow. So what? -- Steve Sobol, Victorville, California, USA sjsobol(a)JustThe.net
From: Nathan Perry on 8 May 2010 23:32
In article <MPG.264fa6fa632c6fed989917(a)news.justthe.net>, Steve Sobol <sjsobol(a)JustThe.net> wrote: > In article <84m66rFujqU1(a)mid.individual.net>, lfsheldon(a)gmail.com > says... > > > > > > I am for both number and city or location that is likely to be a > > destination or one that I will recognize as enroute to my destination > > ("control city" often fails either or both). > > Sometimes they make no sense, even when they don't fail both tests. > > Victorville has a population of over 100,000, Barstow has a population > of just 25,000, yet... guess which town is the control city on > northbound I-15 in Riverside and San Bernardino counties? > > Yeah, yeah, the 15/40 junction is in Barstow. So what? Well, I don't know if this is why it's the control city or because it is, but I hear Barstow used as a waypoint all the time, and Victorville...well, with all due deference, it's never come up. What's the history of the two towns as waypoints? I know Barstow was talked about in the Route 66 days; how far back does Victorville date? |