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Hot take: people keep calling the new Roman road find in York a 'highway' and it's driving me nuts (it's a local access road, you can tell by the curb stones)
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wade_clark386mo ago
But isn't a highway just a road that goes a long way? If it connected parts of the city, maybe it was a big deal back then.
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abbyf796mo ago
Oh man, that reminds me of my friend who got lost trying to follow some old "highway" signs in Boston. Turned out it was just a super narrow one-way street now, lol. Guess it was a big deal like 300 years ago.
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the_max5mo ago
My GPS still calls that stretch of road a highway near the old market. You have to ignore the digital maps and just follow the actual street signs there. It's the only way to avoid those weird dead ends.
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kevin_lane6mo ago
Exactly, their main roads were probably just our regular streets, so the word's meaning totally changes.
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