Re: Re :OT: 80 Miles Per Hour

2003-10-22 Thread mike wilson
Hi, Alin Flaider wrote: > > mishka wrote: > > m> and saw the signs "speed limit strictly enforced", i realized new > m> york cops do have a sense of hunor. > > You meant honour, right!? > ;o) > Coming from a country struggling to rebuild its infrastructure, I > shouldn't have been too s

Re: Re :OT: 80 Miles Per Hour

2003-10-22 Thread Alin Flaider
mishka wrote: m> and saw the signs "speed limit strictly enforced", i realized new m> york cops do have a sense of hunor. You meant honour, right!? ;o) Coming from a country struggling to rebuild its infrastructure, I shouldn't have been too shocked by the state of NYC roads. Yet it oft

Re :OT: 80 Miles Per Hour

2003-10-21 Thread mishka
the way i heard it, the cops dig them at night to make sure no one is speeding. the first time i went from jfk on van-vyck expwy (crawling at 5mph), and saw the signs "speed limit strictly enforced", i realized new york cops do have a sense of hunor. mishka There are lots of potholes in NYC. They

Re: OT: 80 Miles Per Hour

2003-10-21 Thread Bob Walkden
Hi, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 11:13:30 PM, you wrote: > There is always money for a new highway. Never any for repairs. Political fact > of life in the US. I found myself in Zanzibar a few years ago, being driven out to the East coast. Eventually the tarmac ran out and the road became a track.

Re :OT: 80 Miles Per Hour

2003-10-21 Thread Larry Levy
Cotty wrote: Frankly I was appalled at the state of some of the highways, especially in NYC! Ni wonder there are so many SUVs - needed to traverse the potholes. REPLY There are lots of potholes in NYC. They are engineered into to roads to give them character. In early spring you might see people

Re: OT: 80 Miles Per Hour

2003-10-21 Thread graywolf
There is always money for a new highway. Never any for repairs. Political fact of life in the US. Cotty wrote: On 21/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: My brother was an engineer who worked on the US Interstate System. He's told me that the roads were truly designed for an optimum speed of 80

Re: OT: 80 Miles Per Hour

2003-10-21 Thread Eactivist
>Frankly I was appalled at the state of some of the highways, especially in NYC! Ni wonder there are so many SUVs - needed to traverse the potholes. >Cheers, Cotty A lot of California roads are not in great shape, because of lack of money. It's a state by state thing in the US, generally (alt

Re: OT: 80 Miles Per Hour

2003-10-21 Thread Larry Levy
Mishka wrote: I'll quote this to the judge at my ticket hearing in a couple of weeks -- 80 mph: "Yor Hono(u)r, but this is what this has been design for, dammit!". If it works and he lets me off the hook (not to mention the $200 ticket), I'll even agree with the "low-cost option" part. REPLY: M