On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:43:38 -0400, SPUI <drspui(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"Limited access highway" means the same thing
as "limited access road" -
in other words nowhere near the standards of a freeway in general.
In your opinion.
Here, the Highways Agency looks after strategic routes and the local
authorities look after local roads. Highways vs. byways, as it were.
It sounds to me as if you are arguing to keep a problem so you can
solve it in your preferred (and incidentally highly US-centric) way.
Do be aware that, like "auto makers of foo" which grates on the ears
of nationals where the word auto is practically never used to describe
cars, using "freeway" to describe an autobahn, autoroute, autostrada,
motorway etc. is likely to sound like another dollop of cultural
imperialism.
Guy (JzG)
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