Road sees first traffic for 1,400 years

Havant & W Sussex News ^ | 27 July 2006 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Feet have trodden on a stretch of Roman road for the first time in 1,600 years. A section of the road has been fully uncovered in the final stages of an archaeological excavation on the former Shippams factory site in Chichester city centre... Jo Taylor, of Pre-Construct Archaeology, which has been carrying out the project with Gifford Archaeology, said the road probably dated from the late first century AD. Postholes on the southern side indicated some form of settlement, which was probably domestic. District council archaeological officer James Kenny said it was a privilege to stand on a Roman street. 'It was probably in the region of about AD400 --1,600 years ago – when someone last walked across it,' he said.

[ElkGroveDan]

Road sees first traffic for 1,400 years And we in California think CALTRANS is bad!

Has to be that job down in Santa Ana they've been working on for 1400 years.

[ElkGroveDan]

You've never been to Louisiana have you? I've had people asleep traveling in the car with me and wake up and say, "We're in Louisiana now aren't we?" No kidding.

I used to commute from the LA area to Montana several times each year. My experience was that the highways in Utah were the very worst in the Western US.

[SunkenCiv]

Hopefully FR's arch-punsters will be Trajan themselves in here soon.

[Fred Nerks]

One could start traveling on a Roman road in northwest Africa, travel around the entire Mediterranean sea, end up in Rome and never have left a Roman road.

[BJClinton]

I can't believe you had the Gaul to say that. Cretan.

[Physicist]

I couldn't Scipio post. A Gaius has to have some Nerva to make a pun like that.

[Domestic Church]

"We're in Louisiana now aren't we?" No kidding."

My kids have said similar comments after crossing into PA from Maryland and you see shredded tires on the side of the highways.

[JRios1968]

Either that or the 60-91-215 Interchange in Riverside.

[SunkenCiv]

Otho people seem to think so, too.

[SunkenCiv]

Cisalpine hanging around FR, I've developed plenty of other bad habits as well.

[SunkenCiv]

I'm a little proud of that one.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1673842/posts?page=30#30

[BJClinton]

Wow. That's some pun-ishment there. You get triple points if you can work Vercingetorix into a pun.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks. And for a lot of that route, that remains true. :')

[SunkenCiv]

Vercingetorix... looks pretty easy... let me give that some thought, and get back to you next year sometime...

[ThanhPhero]

The worst highway I ever rode on was an Interstate- I do not remember which one- that I traversed while going from PA into NY State. It was bumper to bumper semis in all 4 lanes (I was driving one in my yearlong foray into driving for a living in '84) at 70 miles an hour and so bumpy that I was trying to scrunch my head into my shoulders to keep from hitting the ceiling so hard.

[Physicist]

Next time there's a thread about stunt planes or air shows, you could write a verse on jet tricks.

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!

[JewishRighter]

Sicily of you to keep this Circus going. Venice this going to stop already? Someone on this thread must be married and his wife will be Gladiator favorite dish before visiting this website. Well don't ask me to Apollogize. Before any of you send me a flaming pun, I've got toga.

[SunkenCiv]

I'd post another one, but Appian the Way.

[JewishRighter]

I'll follow your example and plebe the fifth.