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- From: a-kevinp@microsoft.com (Kevin Purcell)
- Subject: Re: Yankee behind the wheel.. {HELP!}
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.224239.18819@microsoft.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 22:42:39 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- References: <1992Dec23.113243.3627@fwi.uva.nl> <1992Dec19.033643.28011@news.ysu.edu> <128030004@otter.hpl.hp.com>
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- Blue circle signs are MUST DO.
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- Blue rectangle signs are INFORMATIONAL (look it up in the Highway Code).
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- For example, a white horizontal arrow on a blue circle is "you must go
- down the street this way. The usual one way street sign (white vertical
- arrow on a blue rectangle) is an informational sign, not a command.
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- Motorway exits are CONSISTENTLY signed (see the Design/Psychology of Everyday
- THings for a good explaination of this). Every junction is signed in exactly
- the same way: from a distant large blue sign with exit number town/city names
- and road numbers, to next sign just road numbers, through the coundown signs
- to a blue confirmer sign (with road number) at the exit and a route
- confirmation sign following the exit. Amazingly logical. Completly unlike the
- randome freeway signage used in the US.
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- I drove around Oakland last week because the signage for Sacramento suddenly
- dissapered (on I-580) and I was confronted with a sign saying SF or San Jose.
- I didn't want go to either places especially not across the bridge!
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- The one thing that gets me in Seattle is in the city part of I-5 you can
- enter or exit the freeway on either side of the road. I drive a 1967 SAAB 96
- which accelerates like a slug so entering the "fast" lane is always an
- adventure.
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- Kevin Purcell
- "oh to be in Liverpool now that winter is here"
-