Date:         Wed, 10 May 2000 23:49:42 -0400
Reply-To:     "Horace K. Sawyer" <firestream@MINDSPRING.COM>
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From:         "Horace K. Sawyer" <firestream@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      Re: Mile markers: Speedo Accuracy Discussion
Comments: To: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
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<static>   "Rescue One, Rescue One, come in, over."

"Rescue One, we have a Superfluous Urban Vehicle that has swapped its
lateral axis on the flip-flop the parallel of the roadway at mile marker
243,  do you copy, over."

<static>

"Central, say what?"











At 06:27 PM 5/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
>NC has accurate mile markers on I40, I95, and many major NC highways. They
>are they're there to assist highway crews and the NCHP. Our exits are also
>numbered, exit 189 is 189 miles from the border, or where the highway
>begins.
>
>"Roger that...another huge SUV rolled over at mile marker 243...same as
>yesterday, 10-4"
>
>G. Matthew Bulley
>Bulley-Hewlett
>Corporate Communications Counselors
>www.bulley-hewlett.com
>Mount Olive, NC USA
>877.658.1278 tollfree
>
>"I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses
>herein and herein contained, et cetera, et cetera . . . fax mentis
>incendium gloria culpum, et cetera, et cetera . . . memo bis punitor
>delicatum!" It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal!      -Wonka
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:   David Beierl [SMTP:dbeierl@IBM.NET]
>Sent:   Wednesday, May 10, 2000 5:02 PM
>To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject:        Re: Speedo Accuracy Discussion
>
>At 16:25 5/10/2000, Tobin Copley wrote:
>>Find an "odometer test section" (these are the sections on the
>>interstates with the small black signs marking miles off 0, 1, 2,
>>3... usually for 5 or more miles), and time from there.  The sweep
>
>I think we'll have to go to BC for that.  Most I've ever seen in US is a
>single measured mile with no warning ahead of time.
>
>OTOH, some places (New York and New Jersey for example) put a small
>numbered marker *every tenth* of a mile on the interstates -- pretty easy
>to spot a flier with that much data.  Rhode Island has no mile markers that
>I know of -- Massachusetts has them in theory but they don't replace them
>when they go missing.
>
>david
>
>David Beierl - Providence, RI
>  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
>'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
>'85 GL "Poor Relation"