**spamTrapper 02.76** Standing, Stopping and Parking in the US

[Wilson Gray]

I've always enjoyed this pair:

Saint Louis:   NO THROUGH STREET

Los Angeles: STREET NOT THROUGH

They both mean "DEAD END," of course.

As a child, I was totally confused by Saint Louis's NO PARKING HERE TO
CORNER street signs, which I understood to mean NO PARKING HERE [IN
ORDER] TO CORNER. For years, I wondered exactly what it is that one
does, when one "corners." I was also impressed by the efficacy of this
traffic law, since I never saw so much as a single car park in such a
space and then follow that act by cornering.

-Wilson Gray

On May 23, 2005, at 10:47 AM, Sally O. Donlon wrote:

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> My favorite traffic sign in New Orleans reads: LEFT TURN PERMITTED ON
> GREEN. It perplexed me for months because I wondered when else one
> would turn.
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> sally donlon
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