[GTALUG] today's fun fact [was Re: Ubuntu Release Parties [was: Toronto Homebrew Hosting Club on Thursday at 7:30pm]]

[James Knott]

On 04/20/2016 08:25 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> On 2016-04-20 03:34 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> I would guess that few city dwellers know this but it is pretty
>> evident out in the country (wherever that is these days).
> As a concession* to being remotely on topic, an early example of system
> incompatibility can be found along Victoria Park Avenue. Vic Park is
> where the two survey teams met — one from the east, the other from the
> west — and they didn't quite join up. That's why almost every major (or
> older) east-west road has a little wiggle at Vic Park.
>
>

And on the other side, in Peel, the roads are on a different alignment,
I suppose to better line up with the lake in that area.