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Sat Dec-04-04 10:14 PM
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Why are parkways called freeways out west? |
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What the hell is going on with that? In the east we call them parkways and expressways. The wackos out west call them freeways. Why is that?
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:15 PM
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I say tomayto you say tomahto. It's all good.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:16 PM
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4. No, I will not calm myself. |
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:17 PM
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8. What kind of moron would call a road a park? |
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If it were a parkway there wouldn't be cars and asphalt everywhere. There would be trees and squirrels. I'm in the midwest and we call them highways, the interstate, expressway...whatever. We don't pretend our roads are parks. :)
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:16 PM
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2. Yeah? Well, why do you drive on a parkway and park in a driveway? nt |
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:16 PM
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:16 PM
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3. Why are "Pantsways" called the "Beltway" near DC? |
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:17 PM
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:18 PM
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12. If you don't have a beltway, |
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do your pantsways fall down?
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:17 PM
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6. As a former wacko from out West allow me to answer suscinctly |
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You don't have to pay f'ing tolls on roads out West. Hence the term freeway.
Comprende?
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:18 PM
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9. That makes a lot of sense. |
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So it's a west coast hippie thing. hmmm. But still, we don't call them tollways here. Oh well.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:22 PM
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20. From my experience, every road in the Northeast has at least three names |
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There's the name from the Revolutionary days, the name from the 19th century, and the name that everyone and their brother uses for the road which, of course, is never posted or on any map. I prefer the Northeast (which now starts at Fairfax Co., VA by my official designation). But the road thing is wacky. Besides, 'tollways' would be too logical and it would remind us that the roads back East are a giant rip off. They're supposed to lift the tolls when the road is paid itself off. Ever hear of that happening, nooooooooooooo.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:23 PM
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23. Well, when we build a toll road here, we call it a tollway |
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And you east coast elitists do have roads called "turnpikes" which refers to the barriers at the toll booths which have to be turned to let traffic through.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:53 PM
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:18 PM
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I wish I had come up w/ that
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:18 PM
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10. How far west do you consider west? |
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We call them freeways in Minnesota too.
Out here in the actual west (Idaho), when I say "freeway" people to me, "Do you mean the Interstate?" (Yeah, there's all of ONE freeway system here in the Boise area.)
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:18 PM
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11. Out west they call it a freeway because it's paid for.... |
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Edited on Sat Dec-04-04 10:20 PM by Egalitariat
by a bunch of lackies out east.
A free lunch. We drive on it, and we send you NE'ers the bill.
In other words, it's a "free"way.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:19 PM
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14. Y'all call it a "high"way because the cost is high |
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and YOU pay the bills.
We call it a "free"way because the cost is high...
and YOU pay the bills.
THANKS!!!!
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:28 PM
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30. Hmm...actually "high"way might be more appropriate for CA. |
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:19 PM
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:20 PM
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16. As a Masshole living out west i still call them highways |
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Edited on Sat Dec-04-04 10:21 PM by chimpsrsmarter
on edit: not all are called freeways..example-The PCH=the Pacific coast highway
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:21 PM
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17. I was calling them parkways when I was out there. |
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I wonder if people thought I was nuts. There was never an east coast CHiPS.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:27 PM
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29. When i lived in medford mass my address was |
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3920 mystic valley parkway. I never really understood the whole parkway thing but who am i to question city hall? East coast chips....hehe. Just picturing some of Medfords finest out on the "Freeway" like Ponch and John is hilarious.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:32 PM
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33. Ponch and John were HIGHway Patrol :) |
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CHiPs is California Highway Patrol.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:34 PM
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34. thats true, they weren't Cfips |
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:36 PM
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:52 PM
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38. That's OK, we never called them 'CHiP's... |
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Until the TV show, that is. They were always CHiMPs: California Highway Motercycle Patrolman. And a guy in a car was a Chippie.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:21 PM
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18. Lots of Turnpikes around here too. |
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:21 PM
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19. I call it a freeway... |
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...because it was the first word I heard used to describe it, specifically in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, used by Judge Doom.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:23 PM
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22. I watched a lot of CHiPS |
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But I don't call them freeways. Be a leader man.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:24 PM
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24. I was six at the time. |
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"Be a leader"...the only thing I led was my class in reading level. I think I was about grade 4 for reading by that time.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:26 PM
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:36 PM
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I was feigning indignation. Apparently it loses something over the Internets.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:22 PM
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Up Hear-yah in New Angland, we call them neither pahkways ner freeways...
The proper terminology is highway.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:25 PM
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Edited on Sat Dec-04-04 10:33 PM by Bleachers7
That's considered NE too. We also call them highways. It depends on the road. Most are called parkway.
Southern State Northern State Meadowbrook Robert Moses
We also have the LI Expressway and the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expy.
The "Turnpike" is in Northern NYS as well as NJ. MJ also has a parkway.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:32 PM
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32. But there are only 6 NE states... |
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I'd love to have you guys in New Yawk counted as New Angland...
But we still got Maine and Conn. to deal with...
Still. honestly, as a child, I believed there were 7 New England Staes...
Maybe my teachers just taught me wrong?
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:24 PM
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25. What the hell is a parkway??? |
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:25 PM
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27. We have a highway out here that everyone calls |
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The Road to Nowhere. For years it went nowhere, now it finally does but everyone still calls it The Road to Nowhere.
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:29 PM
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31. Why do you hate us Westerners for our freedomways? |
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:43 PM
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37. What's a parkway? Look its simple... |
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Freeway are free and tollways are not... These are highways. Streets are not "high" they are all at "street" level, that's why they are streets. Parkway, or Lane, or Road, or Boulevard is just a quaint name for a street!
Now that is what "quaint" is! Not the word I would use to describe the Geneva Convention's prohibition on torture! Sieg HieL!
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Sat Dec-04-04 10:55 PM
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40. I've lived on the east coast all my life and have never |
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Edited on Sat Dec-04-04 11:15 PM by Zing Zing Zingbah
heard anyone use the term "parkways". I have heard of "freeways". I've always used the word "highways". I grew up in Maine, btw.
Maybe I've heard of freeways from my mom and her family, since she is from Minnesota. I'm not sure what part of the country says parkways. I'm living in Florida right now, and I've never heard that word used around here.
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