Re: [ST] Introduction..

["Mike Bostock" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In your message regarding Re: [ST] Introduction.. dated Mon, 02 Apr 2001
15:20:45 -0500, Darwin Holmstrom said that ...

>DH-  What word do the Brits use to describe paved roads? The oddest sign I've seen concerning road
surfaces was one in northern Minnesota that read: "Bituminous Ends 1/4 mile."

In English 'paved' = covered in concrete slabs of uniform size usually
about 2' by 2'6" ie the pavement where pedestrians walk (just to confuse
the issue some 'pavements' are not paved though).  Roads are just 'roads'
or 'carriageways', surfaced with a bituminous compound of some
description, when they run out of man-made surface they tend to become
'tracks'.  Hence the term 'road-rash' which is the damage caused to a
motorcycle rider who meets the road surface when he is not wearing
protective clothing :-(

- -- 
Mike Bostock
http://www.toothfairy.co.uk/
Wales & SW ST Riders
http://www.sprint-st.org/

'99 Red ST

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