street work

[Marc Velasco]

My first reading was 'eastbound' street.

then, upon second reading, only the 'east' side (northbound) side made
sense.

I have no prior knowledge of Philly geography.

The decision to use 'east' side in a context where streets (and especially
lanes) are often referred to as _X-bound_ seems inane, and almost
purposefully confusing.

But... is 34th a one way, southbound street?



On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Doug Harris <cats22 at frontiernet.net> wrote:

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> And this should serve as a word of caution, that one addressing 'normal
> work week' workers at a seven-day-a-week operation as 'You M-Fers more
> than likely will override whatever point you intended to make.
> dh
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> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: street work
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> At 7:35 PM -0400 7/17/08, Doug Harris wrote:
> >Regardless of traffic flow, disruptions of same and all that, the
> >hyphenated rude comment at the end -- albeit abbreviated -- was NOT
> >called for, IMHO.
> >dh
> >
> >>  If you wouldn't mind, please read this paragraph and then answer the
> >>  question below.
> >>
> >>  ----
> >>  JPC construction will be doing work at a manhole location on 34th
> >>  Street just north of Spruce Street. Therefore, the east traffic lane
> >>  will be closed for approximately 4 weeks during the hours of 7:00am -
> >>  3:30 pm M-F.
> >  > ----
> Heh heh; multiple homonymy in those abbreviations.  Reminds me of my
> sometime reading of the technical term "M-F transsexuals" as
> referring to those who revert to their birth sex on the weekends.
>
> LH
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