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From: preece@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Boston Driving Returns! - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 25-Oct-83 21:48:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 25 21:48:46 1983
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uicsl!preece    Oct 25 12:25:00 1983

I was in Boston recently and managed to get from the airport to 93
and back agin with only one minor error that I managed to catch
before it was beyond repair.  I think it's just experience, though,
things seemed sort of familiar this time and I guessed right more often.

When I was in college (about 1969, before I-93 went all the way into
the city) I once managed to cross the Mystic River Bridge three times,
all in the same direction, while trying to find Logan.  In four years
I went to the airport (coming down from New Hampshire) about a dozen
times; I'm reasonably sure I never went exactly the same way twice.
On the other hand, I love the place and I certainly wouldn't want
them to make Lauren's changes.  Maybe if they just banned traffic in
the whole North End and wired the highways together so Logan was the only
exit inside 128...

The right-on-red laws, by the way, are required of any state wanting
to get Federal highway funds.  When Massachussetts yielded to the
Federal pressure they openly said they were going to post most of
the intersections for the benefit of pedestrians and the avoidance
of chaos (or increasing chaos, perhaps).  Right on red is permitted
fairly commonly, though, outside Boston.

scott preece
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