left right stuff

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Sep 23 04:25:56 UTC 2005


Perhaps it's only I who would call it a cloverleaf without an over-
or underpass.  Are there any citations where this is used?  Or "half-
or quarter-cloverleaf?  (Apparently not in OED2.)  These would likely
not have over/underpasses.

Joel

At 9/22/2005 11:12 PM, you wrote:
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>On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:04:35 -0400, Joel S. Berson <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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> >I have finally realized that I myself have called both types of turns
> >"jug handles", when to me only one is -- pull off to the right before
> >the intersection, bear left to proceed at right angles to the
> >original direction, and cross the intersection.  The Bedford
> >Rd./Hartwell Rd. and Route 9 intersections are of this type.  The
> >example I gave of Rte 2/Bedford Rd. is of the other type -- proceed
> >past the intersection and make a 270 degree right turn -- is not, and
> >I would call it a clover-leaf exit.
>
>I thought a "cloverleaf" configuration required one road passing over
>another one (and typically involves major highways). That's implied in the
>definitions given by OED, AHD, and RHUD, though not MWCD or Encarta.
>
>
>--Ben Zimmer



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