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Subject:Re: Which is the outside lane?
From:Scott Beckstead
Date:Fri, 17 Nov 1995 10:33:42 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, Neil Wigley wrote:

> I'm serious. Given a four-lane freeway, or blvd, the fast lanes are the two
> in the middle. The slow lanes are the ones nearest the border of the
> highway.
> 
> Which are the inside lanes?
> 
> I just had a conversation in the elevator, all of us born in N Amer (3
> Yanks, 2 Canucks), and the vote was 3-2 that the outside lane is the fast
> lane!
> 
> Two of the voters were born and raised here in Windsor and they disagreed.
> 
> So here's a Friday question:
> 
> Which is the outside lane? The fast one? The slow one?
> 
> Neil
> who's terribly perplexed and probably won't sleep tonight
> 
> Neil Wigley
> U of Windsor
> Windsor Ontario
> South of the border, down Canada way
> 
> 
> 
The number 1 lane is the fast one.  Lanes are numbered from the median 
out toward the outside lane!
Scott

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