Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jav Just because someone is more intelligent than you is no reason to assume that he collects trivia. He has a very retentive mind, as I have discovered over the years. Jerry Javier Perez wrote: > Marc > Do you have some sort of grand universal trivia > library at home? Where do you get this stuff? > Javier > > --- Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net> wrote: > > At 05:49 PM 3/9/03 -0800, Martin Howard wrote: > > > > > >I think these are both German inventions, with the > > advent of the first > > >Autobahn. The separation of traffic flows via a > > median, an overtake > > >lane (a concept lost on most US drivers), and on > > and off ramps are all > > >Autobahn firsts, AFAIK, although in the US, the > > concept was extended > > >upon (particularly through spaghetti interchanges) > > when the Interstate > > >system was built. > > > > Martin > > > > The Pennsylvania Turnpike was the first divided-lane > > high-speed road ever > > built, dating from a decade before the Autobahns > > were conceived. This road > > came equipped was all of the attributes you discuss. > > By the time the first > > Autobahn was constructed, there were probably 25,000 > > miles of such roads in > > the US. > > > > Marc > > > > msmall@infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 > > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html