Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 12:27:14 -0600

From: Joan Houston Hall jdhall[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU

Subject: Re: gapers' block



In message Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:52:03 -0500,

Allan Metcalf AAllan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM writes:



In Chicago, a traffic slowdown caused by drivers slowing to look at an

accident in the opposite lane, or some other sight (currently a portrait

of Dennis Rodman of the Chicago Bulls, changing hair color as Rodman

does) - is called a "gapers' block."



Is that term used elsewhere? If not, what?



Thanks - Allan Metcalf



In the Philadelphia area, newscasters say "There's a gaper delay at 6th and

Market."

Joan Hall