"Charles Ellson" wrote in message
...

previous examples exist in the way that previous managements
gave districts of Paris and Moscow numbers in lieu of names

I thought Parisian districts were given numbers because the pre-existing
neighbourhoods and road layout were demolished so thoroughly under Hausmann
that keeping the old names was pointless?

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John Rowland - Spamtrapped
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That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes