Fishes and : Bumper Stickers

[Carol]

Geoff:

> Pavement=sidewalk
> Roadway=pavement
> Dual carriageway=divided highway?
> Motorway=Interstate
> Level crossing= grade crossing?
> Tramway=street car/trolley car?
> 
> the last refers to a railway/road crossing. I'm not sure if I've 
> got the US versions correct where I've put a question mark. 
> Corrections welcome!


Carol responds:

What is a "level crossing"? "Grade crossing" isn't a term I've heard, either. Maybe you mean "crosswalk" ("pedestrian crossing")?

A streetcar or trolley car or cable car is a train car operated by electricity coming through a wire on the top of the car. It provides cheap, short-distance transportation between fixed points within a city.(Phoenix and Tucson are reviving them; San Francisco is famous for them.)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/art/dict/strtcar.htm

A railroad crossing is just that--railroad crossing. (which reminds me of a silly riddle from my childhood: "Railroad crossing; look out for the cars. Can you spell that without any R's?" Answer: "T-h-a-t.")

Carol, who for some reason thought that trolley cars ran on a single rail but seems to be wrong on that count