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Article #175Re: Motorway Madness
From: Bernie Jones
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 14:36
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 14:36
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In article <C0HFH8.MuD@bailgate.gpsemi.com> jon_w@sn4401.oldham.gpsemi.com (Jonathan Walker) writes: >I know the signs you are on about, I saw a sign lit up saying 50 on the M57 The weird thing about these signs is that although the police (or whoever) seem to cancel the warning signs after the danger is over, they never seem to get rid of the ones that say 'End' Driving along the M6 and M1 a few days ago I went past around 10 signs saying 'End', and not a single warning at all - I would have thought that the little computers that control these things would be more organised (unless it's a cunning low-tech-masquerading- as-high-tech system, and each matrix has a bank of 24x24 ? switches by the side of the road that control the bulbs individually :-] )
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk!bemj1 From: bemj1@cl.cam.ac.uk (Bernie Jones) Newsgroups: uk.transport Subject: Re: Motorway Madness Message-ID: <1993Jan7.143650.23961@infodev.cam.ac.uk> Date: 7 Jan 93 14:36:50 GMT References: <C0Fou8.IJ3@brunel.ac.uk> <C0HFH8.MuD@bailgate.gpsemi.com> Sender: news@infodev.cam.ac.uk (USENET news) Reply-To: Bernie.Jones@cl.cam.ac.uk Distribution: uk Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK Lines: 11 Nntp-Posting-Host: ely.cl.cam.ac.uk