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Safety lies in infrastructure and nobody ever needs to learn anything.
I was looking at a magnified view of a tricky intersection on my route home from Fort Wayen next Tuesday, and noticed that the median of the crossing was labeled "Dupont Road Trail". So I opened the sidebar and clicked on "bicycling". Sure enough, the median lit up green. Having already established that all I will be able to do is to grit my teeth and pray that I take the correct left exit to stay on Dupont Road, I followed the trail to the end, which was in the middle of a five-lane road. Noticing that the "trail" on the south side of Dupont continued, I backtracked and followed that one to its end -- at the intersection of two five-lane roads. Then I traced back to its beginning at Woodland Plaza Parkway. Appropriately, there is a funeral home on the corner. There's a weaving term for what Dupont does at the intersection, where the westbound lanes have been lifted up and crossed over the eastbound lanes for a short distance. Ah! I think it's "leno". Nope. The Wikipedia article says leno is worked on weft threads, and what I'm thinking of can be worked only on warp threads. The picture looks similar, but the threads are twisted, not bootlaced. And the picture looks a lot like "twining". Is, perhaps, the Wikip a teeny bit off? Just took another look at Google Maps. The trail on the south side of Dupont does not connect to the trail on the north side. But the one on the north side begins on the south side and crosses over at the tricky intersection. It's rather a pity that I won't be able to spare any attention to look at the MUP. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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