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Article #1674Re: 710 Freeway suit
From: John R. Grout
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:00
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In article <32692CDD.6D39@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Jeff Bishop <jwbishop@uclink4.berkeley.edu> writes: > Actually, it is an oxymoron. If you charge tolls, it's a turnpike or a > tollway, not a "freeway." Not necessarily a bad idea, mind you, but > don't call it a "freeway." No, it is not an oxymoron... "free" is a reference to the flow of traffic which is optimized by limited access (the legal definition). I will admit that there are lots of ignorant people out there (some of whom even post to Usenet newsgroups) who do not... or choose not... to understand this distinction. -- John R. Grout Center for Supercomputing R & D j-grout@uiuc.edu Coordinated Science Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104eff,a3fa844df4dc0fbd X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,a3fa844df4dc0fbd X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,a3fa844df4dc0fbd X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public X-Google-Thread: f7890,1c921eb16bb9851e X-Google-Attributes: gidf7890,public From: grout@sp55.csrd.uiuc.edu (John R. Grout) Subject: Re: 710 Freeway suit Date: 1996/10/19 Message-ID: <vd6846y73e.fsf@sp55.csrd.uiuc.edu> X-Deja-AN: 190634327 references: <markscha-0110962313000001@ts38-9.wla.ts.ucla.edu> organization: Center for Supercomputing R and D, UIUC newsgroups: la.general,ca.politics,ca.driving,misc.transport.road