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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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James Brown wrote in message ... (...) about (...) (For (...) Round-Abouts (...) Selçuk (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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