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Good job, you just can't admit it. It is kinda sad, but I'll take it. Definitely have never had an issue with any roads in Georgia, so you can gripe all ya want because now your just digging lol.
too smooth of a road is crappy. Don't like roads you can't get good traction
Good job, you just can't admit it. It is kinda sad, but I'll take it. Definitely have never had an issue with any roads in Georgia, so you can gripe all ya want because now your just digging lol.
Georgia wins with the exception of Houston.
Georgia beats Texas (minus Houston) in Quality. Texas beats Georgia in functionality. Houston beats Texas and Georgia in both.
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I like the way they paint the Interstate Signs on the pavement before a major interchange (although that might be just a Houston thing).
They do this in Louisiana and southern Mississippi also.
Georgia beats Texas (minus Houston) in Quality. Texas beats Georgia in functionality. Houston beats Texas and Georgia in both.
Although I didn't find anything special about SA's roads in the 4 years I loved there, I hear they are good for a metro that size. They have got a series of loops and 35 through SA is not that bad.
WestbankNOLA, why do people in New Orleans call the median the neutral ground?
Long story short.
It goes back to when Americans first really started to settle in New Orleans and were "shocked" that New Orleanians regardless of race lived and more or less got along with each other all in one place. They considered it to be almost the ultimate sin to have whites, blacks, natives, Hispanics and all types of biracial people so socially integrated. The Americans settled above Canal St (the only street wide enough to have a median at the time) and the majority refused to cross the street. The New Orleanians hated the Americans almost just as much, so any peaceful or business related contact between the two took place on "neutral" ground, or in that case the grass inbetween the street.
As a kid I would ask relatives out of town why they said "median".
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Long story short.
It goes back to when Americans first really started to settle in New Orleans and were "shocked" that New Orleanians (a mixture of Europeans, Africans, and Hispanics) lived and more or less got along with each other all in one place. The Americans settled above Canal St (the only street wide enough to have a median at the time) and the majority refused to cross the street. The New Orleanians hated the Americans almost just as much, so any peaceful or business related contact between the two took place on "neutral" ground, or in that case the grass inbetween the street.
As a kid I would ask relatives out of town why they said "median".
That's interesting. Do y'all call the concrete median the neutral ground too?
Anything that can be a median is the same as a neutral ground with the excpetion of raised barriers like on the freeway.
Oh ok. We call the raised concrete barrier the median too.
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