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- From: v140pxgt@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Daniel B Case)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: Driving rules not in the DMV manual
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 23:57:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.221318.54545@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, sme3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (SCOTT MATTHEW ESTRIN) writes...
- >ObRec.HumorThing: Near my house, on County route 522 in New Jersey (in case
- >anyone's familiar with it), there's a sign: SPEED LIMIT 40. A short distance
- >later, there's a REDUCED SPEED AHEAD sign, followed by a sign which reads END
- >40 MILE SPEED. About 1/2 mile past that, is SPEED LIMIT 40.
- >
- >I know it's not a joke, but this is rec.HUMOR, and I found that humorous in a
- >dumb sort of way.
- >
- > - Scott
-
- I've never actually been down there, but there are two other places in NJ where
- there are some ridiculous road signs. On this one street in North Caldwell,
- there's a sign that says "VEHICLES AND PEDESTRIANS ONLY". Well, no shit
- Sherlock! I thought until I figured they were trying to keep someone from
- horseback riding there. Also, on the south bound Garden State Parkway, right
- before the Raritan river bridge, there's a sign that stretches across the
- whole roadway, with arrows pointing to all five lanes, and saying simply
- "THRU TRAFFIC". This one I haven't figured out. They usually put these signs
- right around exits to guide the traffic, but this one is at least a half mile
- past the nearest exit. Anyone going past it already knows they're going over
- the bridge and into the tollbooth, so that sign's necessity eludes me, unless
- the NJ Highway Authority needed to give someone some sweetheart business.
-
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