Comments on: Doesn’t sound like Germans to me

By: robohara

robohara — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:06:10 +0000

I had no idea there were so many I-270s, but yeah, I was referring to the one that flows into D.C. My favorite signs around the beltway are still there as well: “Aggressive Driver Imaging”. I don’t know how it works but I left my sunglasses on and pulled the sun visor down, just in case.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:04:27 +0000

The one thing I learned in my student days that ultimately proved useful was how to get around Austin without getting on the, um, Interregional Highway. (I didn’t have a car in those days, so I had little choice in the matter.) Then again, this was forty years ago: there was little reason to go north of Braker or south of Oltorf.

By: Dick Stanley

Dick Stanley — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:57:21 +0000

Sounds like I-35 in downtown Austin on any weekday at just about any time.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:41:34 +0000

The segment in Maryland, so far as I can recall, is the only one I’ve never driven — not that I spent that much time bypassing St. Louis or Columbus.

By: Charles Pergiel

Charles Pergiel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:32:29 +0000

For a minute there I thought you were talking about Columbus. Then I went and checked. There are three different Interstate 270′s: Maryland, Columbus, Ohio, and St. Louis, Missouri. Huh.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:58:09 +0000

Yeah. I want to see them enforce a 40 minimum on the way into the Capital Beltway. I have a better chance of, as Denis Leary says, seeing Cindy Crawford naked eating an Eskimo Pie.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:50:42 +0000

There are minimum speed laws too, you know.