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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- Subject: sidebar re 401
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- Organization: York University
- References: <1992Jul28.010451.911@zooid.guild.org> <2A754DBB.3A7B@telly.on.ca> <KIM.92Jul29083734@kim.Software.Mitel.COM> <1992Jul30.221452.16900@zooid.guild.org> <KIM.92Jul31084618@kim.Software.Mitel.COM>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:08:59 GMT
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- || kim@Software.Mitel.COM (Kim Letkeman) writes:
- || >The 401 is designed for high volume traffic going at high speeds. It
- || >can easily carry hundreds or thousands of vehicles per hour at 120kmh
- || >without posing any significant risk to the motorists. It does this
- || >every day.
-
- It should: the design speed for the 401 in south-western ontario was 70mph
- back before our american cousins lowered our genberal seepd limit to 50
- mph from 60 and pulled the 401 down to 60 thereby (:-)).
-
- I'm not sure that this is necessarily true of recent additions in the
- Toront area, though...
-
- --dave
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