| Re: Notes from a Flat Land [message #250279] |
Di, 04 April 2006 08:04 |
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Werehatrack said:
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>>6) Extremely bike friendly terrain, compensated for by putting four
>>laned expressways where the British would use single lanes, thus
>>rendering any mode of transport except military grade truck useless.
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> A British single-laned motorway would not, however, carry the same
> number of crazed Florida drivers at the same speed; workdays would all
> have to start a week later.
In Britain, the vast majority of the motorway network (including most
sliproads, or "ramps" as I think the Usanians call them) is at the very
least two-lane, and three is far more common. (Three each way, that is!)
Modulo tiny anomalies that I've never actually met on the road IIRC,
single-lane happens only in two circumstances:
(a) during roadworks (and although roadworks are common, single-lane is very
rare even then - they usually find a way to keep at least two lanes open in
each direction, even if it means half-inching the hard shoulder);
(b) on some sliproads, in places like Thruddleton-on-Thripp or Twiney
Ramdyke - i.e. miles from anywhere with no facilities, because so very few
people can possibly afford to live there that the bandwidth requirements
are almost negligible.
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> Rock concerts are a staple; higher culture is poorly supported.
There is no higher culture than a rock concert. Everyone knows that. Well,
everyone with an opinion worth holding, anyway. And I know I speak for us
all when I add that all those who agree with me 100% (about the cultural
pre-eminence of rock concerts) have opinions worth holding.
--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
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