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Re: One of the Mindfest pics
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Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:47:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Eric Kingsley writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Frank Filz writes:
One of the more interesting events in Massachusetts sign history happend about
15 to 18 years ago when they decided to reverse all the signs in Rotaries (For
those that don't know what a Rotaries is.  Rotaries are the same Round-Abouts

Up here in Canada, we quite sensibly call them traffic circles. :)

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/



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  Re: One of the Mindfest pics
 
James Brown wrote in message ... (...) about (...) (For (...) Round-Abouts (...) Selçuk (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: One of the Mindfest pics
 
(...) I have also heard them called "Massachusetts Death Circles" (MA is the only state in the US I am aware of which has a significant number of traffic circles, though I think DC has a bunch, and down south there is probably one for every other (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) The Yellow+Red is very confusing. My wife who grew up in Massachusetts saw it while we were stopped at an intersection and she asked me "What is up with that" and I had to expain it to her. It is a very odd thing and I don't even know if it (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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