Yah,
Hawaii, has a US Federal 'Interstate' expressway!
(does it read 'Caution, deep water ahead' ?)
Carter Shore
--- James Carruthers <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk> wrote:
> Has anybody heard of this yet? It's in the current
> issue of The Courier (Cop
> Shop section)
>
> There going to change the names of the roads!!! And
> we can't stop them (at
> least I don't think we can! I always thought it was
> very simple: and A road is
> bigger than a B road, and M means motorway. But no,
> obviously no one can work
> this out. Instead we're taking on the "euro" system.
> Which consist of E, N, D
> and P roads:
>
> E is a "euroroute" which crosses many countries
> borders.
> N is a national route which is a "major"" route not
> being a "euroroute"
> D is a department route that starts and finishes in
> the same "member state"
> And theres also a P - which is a "Periphery" route -
> i.e something like the
> M25 which circles a major town.
>
> This may make sense when roads run for many miles
> (sorry km) across entire
> countries - but as far as I know you can't quite yet
> travel from London to
> Paris on a road - non-stop. And don't tell me about
> the chunnel or ferrys and
> such like - they don't count
>
> I know a lot of people travel to europe (are we not
> in europe?!?!) - but I
> don't see how this helps. I don't mind the odd euro
> law - and I've nearly
> talked myself in to the fact that one day I may not
> be able to pay in pounds
> and pence - but surely something that only really
> makes sense for countries
> connected together is crazy! We are an island!!
>
> Plus everybody will have to buy new maps, so there!
>
>
>
>
>
> No more traffic jams on the MMMM25 then,
>
>
>
> James
>
>
> 1977 Pimento Red Spit
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