🚀 go-pugleaf

JOSE SUAREZ (suarez@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:
> When I first drove on the beltway in 1990, HAZMAT threw me for a loop. In a 
> couple of days, however, I figured it out from context (lane limitations). 
> But on the beltway last week, there was a temporary road sign with the 
> electronic, lighted display board, that *really* got me thinking: NO SHLOR.

> Wow, I thought. First HAZMAT, now NO SHLOR. What the hell planet is this? 
> Sounds like dialog from Mork and Mindy.

> (Turns out the upper left pixel on what I thought was the letter "O" was 
> burned out, and that it actually was the letter "D", meaning that it was an 
> abbreviation for "no shoulder". At least I figured this one out just as I 
> passed the sign...) 

They finally fixed the one at the end of I-95 south when heading to 495 
where there are two lanes and a sign on the left says lane ends merge 
right and the sign on the right says lane ends merge left...????
what? are there going to be NO LANES??? or maybe just a shoulder as 
most DC drivers use them like normal lanes anyway...


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