Standing, Stopping and Parking in the US

[David Bowie]

From:    Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM>

> I've always enjoyed this pair:

> Saint Louis:   NO THROUGH STREET

> Los Angeles: STREET NOT THROUGH

> They both mean "DEAD END," of course.

Actually, *technically*, NO THROUGH STREET and DEAD END mean different
things. (DE means the street you're on doesn't have any turns off of it
beyond the sign; NTS means there may be turns off the street you're on,
but they won't lead out of the neighborhood you're in.) This doesn't
mean that they're always used like the book says, of course (and yes,
there really *is* a book--one of the surprises of being married to a
traffic engineer is that you discover such things).

And yes, the book (the "MUTCD", for "Manual on uniform traffic control
devices", available at http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/, along with related
publications) also defines, with mind-numbing detail, standing,
stopping, and parking.

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