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Originally posted by Mike from West Yorkshire:
There was an outcry in the 1980s or 90s, so North Humberside went back to its original name of East Riding.

I can understand that – I’d much rather be an East Ridingian than a North Humbersideian.

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Originally posted by Mike from West Yorkshire:
M62+M61+M6 probably, then A74 (or if more recent, M74) probably.

15 or so years ago. Not sure if that’s considered recent in England – probably not.

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Originally posted by Mike from West Yorkshire:
I only realised recently that there were no roundabouts in USA. Or are there some?

I’ve only seen a few, but then I’m not a road-touring person. I suspect the ones over here are more for show than for practically. The only one that comes to mind is in Vail, but I think that’s more to give the tourist a feeling of Alpine skiing.

It looked like we were going to get a medium-sized one. The city had a billboard at the intersection with a diagram of the roundabout. But, the natives, fearing carnage, repealed the idea. Instead, there’s the typical square intersection with left/right turn lanes and left turn arrows. Say, what happens to the pedestrians in roundabouts, or is it “survival of the fittest”?

Don’t understand why they aren’t popular in the States. It’s not like our first street designers weren’t somewhat influenced by England. The starting and stopping at traffic lights must be a grand waste of fuel, and hard on breaks, transmissions, and fenders from cross traffic accidents. Maybe we have a proclivity to right angles.

I could be way off on this, but I think roundabouts are something one has to be raised with, and not something one can easily adapt to. I believe, that if any terrorists were determined to inflict large-scale casualties to the U.S. civilian population, their best bet would to install roundabouts. Grant it, it would be a long term assault, but effective.

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Originally posted by Mike from West Yorkshire:
We also have the pub just down the road where the Luddites . . .

Are there no bars or nightclubs in England – just pubs?

I had to look up Luddites. Sounds like they thought the Industrial Revolution was the Industrial Riot.

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Originally posted by Mike from West Yorkshire:
. . .and worked at a nearby church - this being the highest one in the county - as a vicar.

Is that in altitude, authority, or hallucinogens? I assume you’re discussing the building and not the
vicar, or the parishioners.