Re: Daily gripe: all the traffic is in the left lane

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From: Vince Young
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 00:00

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QUICK JASON STEWART wrote:

> Well, true, but you'd get quit dizzy driving round and round the island. :)
> 
I don't think any americans who have never been to the UK realise that
it isn't quite as small as they think. It does take some time to get
from the soutwest to the north of Scotland, it isn't just half an hour
and you've run out of land, that would be Cyprus.


> The US isn't 5000 miles from one end to another (more like 3000), but it

More like 2000, it's only 3600 from London to Washington DC by plane !

> wouldn't take too long to accumulate that sort of mileage.  Traveling
> from one coast to another, then up/down the coast would get you
> pretty close to 5000 miles (say, on a route from Seattle-Miami-Boston).
>
But the point was that you can drive this journey in both countries
quite happily, although quite a bit quicker in England.
 
Vince

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From: Vince Young <fsaec@SPAMBLOCK.wmin.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Daily gripe: all the traffic is in the left lane
Date: 1997/04/24
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