Used to be a test section on US 30 near Marshalltown Iowa.  Damn that was a
long time ago.

DM&FS
-----Original Message-----
From: David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: Speedo Accuracy Discussion

>At 16:25 5/10/2000, Tobin Copley wrote:
>>Find an "odometer test section" (these are the sections on the
>>interstates with the small black signs marking miles off 0, 1, 2,
>>3... usually for 5 or more miles), and time from there.  The sweep
>
>I think we'll have to go to BC for that.  Most I've ever seen in US is a
>single measured mile with no warning ahead of time.
>
>OTOH, some places (New York and New Jersey for example) put a small
>numbered marker *every tenth* of a mile on the interstates -- pretty easy
>to spot a flier with that much data.  Rhode Island has no mile markers that
>I know of -- Massachusetts has them in theory but they don't replace them
>when they go missing.
>
>david
>
>David Beierl - Providence, RI
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