Showing posts with label intersections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intersections. Show all posts

Saturday, June 29, 2019

On the Street Where You Live

There seem to be two kinds of ant jokes - those that start with ant, and those that conclude with ant.  How many jokes could there be with words that start with ant? There are almost 5,000 words. In comparison there are only 533 words that end with ant.  These seem to be the funniest jokes.

The pavement ants seem to have concluded their nest-cleaning activity as there are little bits of ant rubbish on the driveway.  My street is a very quiet one so I can sweep the grass edging without any worries of any cars - careening or even creeping on my street.  


Did you know that the busiest road in the world is Highway 401?  It carries 420,000 vehicles per day.  Remember our Niagara Falls statistics of 13,000,000 million visitors - they might make a contribution to the load.

We can find out the busiest intersections in the world.  Here's the list - look how many US intersections there,  and even 2 in Canada.  I can't imagine this is on someone's bucket list - but it has to be with 7.5 billion people and various bucket lists.
Place Charles de Gaulle- Paris, France
The “Magic Roundabout” - Swindon, UK
Nanpu Bridge Interchange - Shanghai, China
Porta Maggiore - Rome, Italy
Knight St and SE Marine Dr, Vancouver, Canada

“The Plough” - Hemel Hempstead, UK
The “Beijing Intersection” - Beijing, China
Spaghetti Junction - Atlanta, USA
Spaghetti Junction - Birmingham, UK
Armdale Rotary - Halifax
Flamingo Road and Pines Boulevard - Pembroke Pines, US
Gibraltar Airport, Gibraltar
I-95, I-287, NJ 440, and CR 514 Intersection - Edison, US
Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange - Los Angeles, USA
Kathipara Junction - Chennai, India
Times Square - New York, USA
Meskel Square - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Ha Noi Intersection- Hanoi, Vietnam
Shibuya Crossing - Tokyo, Japan
You can see a picture of each intersection HERE.

We're in downtown Toronto today for the flags that oversee the clock tower on Queen Street at City Hall.



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