On Jan 28, 2005, at 1:45 AM, Russell McMahon wrote:
[a bunch of funny stuff.]

>  Modern roads are much wider than they need to be.

FWIW, they're doing road construction near here and they've narrowed all
the lanes of one of the major freeways by "some" to make more room for 
the
actual construction.  I don't know how much narrower the lanes are (this
is one of those 5-lanes per direction, 65mph highways where most people
exceed the speed limit when traffic doesn't make it impossible), but the
narrower section is (for me) noticeably "tenser" to drive on, and it's
even more noticeable when the narrow section ends in a couple miles and
the lanes widen again...

BillW
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