[WikiEN-l] Categories for deletion/discussion issues
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Thu Jul 27 09:11:41 UTC 2006
Steve Bennett wrote:
>On 7/25/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Limited access highway would probably be understood generically in most
>>of the US, but the term would not normally be used in the context,
>>
>>
>For what it's worth (nothing), I (outside the US) have never heard the
>term "limited access" with respect to a road, ever. Or at least I
>intentionally forgot it for the purpose of making this statement.
>
>Actually that's not true - I've seen some country roads marked
>"limited access", meaning that only park rangers are allowed on them.
>And maybe the term is occasionally used in cities to indicate roads
>that large trucks, or unauthorised people aren't allowed to use.
>
I think these are more correctly "restricted access" instead of "limited
access", and that usage more frequently applies to roads that are not
highways.
Ec
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