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From: mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: 65 MPH?
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 22:07:31 EST
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> In article <1220@mtx5a.UUCP> mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile) writes:
> ................ missive deletion ................
> >
> >As to highest POSTED speed: the Adirondack Northway used to be posted at
> >90 MPH. I remember riding up that way with Dad a few times.  And the station
> >wagon (with about a 32 gallon gas tank) had no trouble holding that speed.
> >	from Mole End			Mark Terribile
> 
> Can someone check this?!! I have traveled the northway since (slightly
> before) it was opened to the public, and don't ever remember the posting
> being over 65. About ten years ago NY messed with a metric speed limit and
> had 90kph postings in several places, is that what you remember?

Well, It was a while ago ... about '66 or so, I imagine, and I would have
been 9 years old, but I don't think that I could have confused 65 and 90.
I MIGHT have the Northway confused with some other road: two lanes each way,
wide grass median, shoulders not too fancy.  No concession/restaurant type
rest stops, but picnic area type stops.  Lots of trucks -- tandems, I think,
but they may have on been the Thruway leg of the trip.  In '66, I don't think
that they were playing metric with the signs, especially since there was only
the one number.  I recall that we paralleled the NYS Barge Canal (successor
to the Erie of musical fame) for a ways.
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