Re: OT: Place name constituents

On 5/21/06, Dana Nutter <sasxsek@...> wrote:
> A lot of cities have a "loop" that basically circles the
> city/metropolitan area.  These are sometimes very confusing because
> different sections are designated "North", "South", "West", "East"
> according to what part you are on.
Compare http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/L/logical.html .

I seem to recall reading that there was a bit of road somewhere in the
Eastern US (around Boston?) that was simultaneously I-xx North and
I-yy South, for some numbers xx and yy; however, I can't track that
down at the moment.

http://www.ihoz.com/viol.html mentions something similar for I-77 and
I-81 in Virginia, though I think that's not what I read about.

Maybe it was I-93 and I-95 near Boston?

Ah! I think I found it: I was probably thinking of the bit that was
simultaneously I-93 North and MA Route 128 South. And apparently the
general term is "wrong-way concurrency":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrong-way_concurrency .

...and it appears that I *had* read about it in the Jargon File entry
on "logical"; an earlier version (still visible e.g. at
http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/l/logical.html ) has this sentence:

"(If you went logical south along the entire length of route 128, you
would start out going northwest, curve around to the south, and finish
headed due east, passing along one infamous stretch of pavement that
is simultaneously route 128 south and Interstate 93 north, and is
signed as such!)"

Glad to know I wasn't imagining things; that bit must've got edited
out of the current version.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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