Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!ntt From: ntt@dciem.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: NYC Geography Message-ID: <255@dciem.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 18:52:18 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.255 Posted: Wed Jul 27 18:52:18 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 28-Jul-83 00:41:36 EDT References: allegra.785 Lines: 36 Title: Road with a wye ("Re: NYC Geography") Another instance of a road with more than two endpoints was provided for years by Ontario's Queen Elizabeth* Way. It ran from the Toronto city limits around the west end of Lake Ontario to a point just outside Niagara Falls, where it divided at a traffic circle into a short eastward route into Niagara Falls and another going south and east to Fort Erie**, something like this: Toronto QQQQQ QQQQQ QQQQQ (1) QQQQQ Hamilton QQQQQ (2) QQQQQ (3) QQQQoQQQ Niagara Falls Q Q (4) QQQQ Fort Erie Because of the sharp variations in overall direction, the conventional labelling by compass directions would be awkward, so the "southbound" direction was labelled "QEW Hamilton" on part 1, "QEW Niagara Falls" on parts 2 and 3, and "QEW Fort Erie" on part 4, and the other direction was labelled "QEW Toronto". However, in recent years the Niagara Falls branch has become highway 420. *The eponymous Queen Elizabeth is the present Queen's mother, Queen by virtue of being married to King George VI. **The place across the border from Buffalo, N.Y.; Ontario destination signs seem to be written as if all that traffic crossing the border was going down a black hole. The "Niagara Falls" no doubt refers to NF, Ontario. Mark Brader, NTT Systems Inc.