On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:23:30 +0000, Bruce
wrote:

Goedjn wrote:
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:53:33 +0000, Bruce
wrote:

Keith Willcocks wrote:
A few years ago we took a train trip across Canada and fell in with a group
of Americans. By the end of the trip I had them calling the railroad: the
railway, switches: points and ties: sleepers. Oh and the engineer was the
engine driver.
And Americans drive on the parkway whereas we park on the driveway.


Except on the Garden State Parkway, where you're actually
parked, just wishing you were driving.

Sounds very much like the M25 around London - often referred to as
largest car park in the UK

Is that the one with the interchange described in
the book _good_omens_ as "a prayer wheel to satan"?
(or maybe that was _sympathy_for_the_devil_..)