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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
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Subject: Re: Grass
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 20:55:50 EDT
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In article <559@ttidcc.UUCP> hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) writes:
>Not in _my_ end of Southern California you  don't.  The  road  maintenanace
>department  once  tried  to  put astroturf and plastic bushes on the median
>strips here.  The locals protested loudly and finally resorted to vandalism.

In North San Diego county, where I went to high school, they one-upped even
astroturf.  The road medians are first covered with a thin coat of gravel,
and then PAINTED GREEN.  If you don't look close at it, it looks nice.
No maintenence (perhaps they repaint it every few years) and I'll bet
even gasoline doesn't bother it.  I wouldn't want to walk on it, though.