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Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon)
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 3 Dec 1998 02:08:01 GMT
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:14:15 GMT, wvw@earthlink.net (De Bengel) wrote:
> In a town in Holland (Zoetermeer), they made a new part where all the
> roads are color-coded. You have a blue quadrant, a red quadrant, etc.
> So the road between the blue and red is called the 'blue-red street'.
> And within the green quadrant you have the (I made these up, for I
> don't know the english equivalents) moss-green street, the basil-green
> street, etc. I never knew there were so many names for different
> shades of red/blue/yellow/green. Not all that practical, but I'm sure
> it looked cute on the proposal.
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> The street I really like is in Utrecht, the one that the university is
> on, called (loose translation) 'The road to wisdom'
Yeah. Weg naar de Wetenschap. Main arterial road between the
university complex and the freeways and the city.
Always liked that one, myself.
Jasper
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| (...) <snip> (...) In a town in Holland (Zoetermeer), they made a new part where all the roads are color-coded. You have a blue quadrant, a red quadrant, etc. So the road between the blue and red is called the 'blue-red street'. And within the green (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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