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Subject: Re: NYC Geography
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Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 18:52:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 27 18:52:18 1983
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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.