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- From: jdunning@picasso.Princeton.EDU (John Alan Dunning)
- Subject: Re: re:discrepency in Guide
- Message-ID: <1993Jan19.144254.28745@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 14:42:54 GMT
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- In article <C12AJD.59t@dcs.ed.ac.uk> rmv@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Robin Vickery) writes:
- >for all atlanticly impaired:
- >a zebra crossing is a row of white lines crossing the road, on either side
- >of the road is a pole with a glowing globe in top known as a belisha beacon
- >don't ask me why. Zebra crossings should not be confused with Pelican crossings
- >which are another type of crossing entirely.
- >
- >V. technical diagram of Zebra crossing:
- >
- > | |
- > O | | O
- > | | # # # # # # # | |
- > | | # # # # # # # | |
- > | # # # # # # # |
- > | # # # # # # # |
- > | |
- > | |
- >
- > V_
- > \ /_)
- > ())))))/
- > /\ / \
- ^^^^^^^^^^
- zebra?
-
- > _____ _____ _____
- >| _ \ | | | _ \ Rob Vickery - rmv@uk.ac.ed.dcs |||||
- >| < | X | | _ < ( o o )
- >|__|\__> |_____| |_____/ Murphy was an optimist --ooO--(_)--Ooo--
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-
- What exactly is a pelican crossing? Is that when the stripes run diagonally?
-
- John
-
-
- P.S. All these ASCII diagrams of traffic markings should be
- included in the faq. 8-)
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-