Fishes and : Bumper Stickers

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> 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")?

Geoff:
I confused the issue because I wrote my last sentence and then added 
the tramway line as an afterthought.

I think you may have answered my question anyway because a level 
crossing in Britain is a road/railway crossing - on the level, hence its 
name. I thought I had heard the phrase grade crossing used but was
 obviously wrong.

Carol:
> 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.)

Geoff:
Again, I was being unclear. I know what a streetcar is; its your word for 
our tram. I was querying "trolley car". 

The word tram has come back into fashion here because where we have 
a light rail system which includes street running, they tend to be referred 
to as modern tramways.