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I always preferred "Dead End", but "Cul-de-sac" seems to have taken over with the road sign planning departments since the 70s.
by dfawcus 3y ago
I always preferred "Dead End", but "Cul-de-sac" seems to have taken over with the road sign planning departments since the 70s.
- dragonwriter 3y agoI've seen both, with an apparent fairly-consistent consistent semantic distinction: a “cul-de-sac” has a rounded turnaround at the end which is convenient for reversing direction without entering any driveway off the road, a “dead end” has a straight end which doesn't provide that affordance.