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Article #8440Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights
From: Kenneth Crudup
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:00
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X Metro Man wrote in message <9Y3yN+h7Zxhp8BYLwuVDitKgkz0q@4ax.com>... >>Ever try to get to Cape Cod during the summer? Damned rotaries back >>up traffic for MILES. The reason they're still there is because the >>businesses abutting the rotaries have lots of pull on Beacon Hill. In article <7su8d2$4lo$1@nntp4.atl.mindspring.net>, "Stuart Smith" <stuartsmith1@mindspring.com> says: >This isn't intended to start a flame war, but part of the reason may be that >Americans don't know how to use them correctly. No flame from me- it's the God's honest truth. I used to live in MA, and inevitably *both* people in and people entering would slow/stop, bringing the whole flow down. I tried to make sure I was at "pole position" at the entrance to a rotary, and just wound around the other cars. -Kenny -- Kenneth R. Crudup, Unix Software Consultant, Scott County Consulting Home1: 8051 Newell St. #914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914 (301) 562-1922 Home2: 5355 Farwell Pl. #242 Fremont, CA 94536-7222 (510) 794-8040 Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 447-6654
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,a40312b6223a4ae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,a40312b6223a4ae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,a40312b6223a4ae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public From: kenny@panix.com (Kenneth Crudup) Subject: Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights Date: 1999/09/29 Message-ID: <7su9br$agi$1@panix2.panix.com> X-Deja-AN: 530925705 References: <7sp72a$jgs$1@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <37f860b7.182518588@news.texas.net> <9Y3yN+h7Zxhp8BYLwuVDitKgkz0q@4ax.com> <7su8d2$4lo$1@nntp4.atl.mindspring.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com X-Trace: news.panix.com 938649788 4367 166.84.0.227 (30 Sep 1999 00:03:08 GMT) Organization: Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C. NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Sep 1999 00:03:08 GMT Newsgroups: misc.consumers,rec.autos.driving,ca.driving X-Newsposter: trn 4.0-test55 (26 Feb 97)