Talk:Ledo Road

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I cleaned up some unbalanced quotes (and a typo) in the last para of the long quotations at the end of the article. But the very last sentence of the quotations (beginning "If it had been left to me, on military grounds...") was marked with three quotes (the opening pair of quotes never having been closed). Since there was no notation of 'emphasis added' or 'emphasis in original', I removed the triple quotes, leaving the entire block in italics. Mwanner 14:34, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Many lives of the Burma Road

The first historical records are about pilgrimage of Chinese monks going to India and back home with biddhist texts, then came the smugglers and pirates. The WWII Burma Road has been made for heavier transportation over this ancient trails, as the Ho Chi Minh Highway is the second life of the Ho Chi Minh trail.

Takima 04:42, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

The travel situation

I've rewritten parts of the article dealing with the travel situation in the area. Yes, people have traveled the road recently. But the situation was different years ago and its still different today for journalists. If you greese the right wheels in the country, make the right assurances about what you will say about the country and have no political ties to groups the government doesn't like, you can go anywhere and do anything. You can also bribe your way in over closed borders and get away with all kinds of stuff. But remember, its usually the local people you come in contact with that are going to be held responsible and punished for whatever you do.

24-zig in Guizhou

http://www.cbiexpeditions.com/html_pages/article2.htm

--77.130.23.187 (talk) 00:06, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Road signs filmed by Gyles Mackrell

I added {{External media}} to link to Gyles Mackrell's film Making the road from Ledo (Stilwell Road); Pangsau Pass linked from [1]. Here is a list of the road signs found:

• at 07:32 sign depicting Bugs Bunny saying: "Listen Doc fun is fun. But Speedin here just isn't done"; and text below: "SPEED LIMIT 25MPH"; a figure resembling Elmer Fudd appears on the left
• at 07:38 a sign depicting a scantily clad woman with text: "HO YOU CAN'T GET THAT ANY MORE! UNLESS YOU DRIVE CAREFULLY AROUND THESE CURVES";
• at 08:08 a sign depicting a short-skirted woman with text (unreadable, start might be "SLOW DOWN")
• at 08:10 a sign depicting a posing seated woman with text starting "YOU MIGHT" (rest very unclear, maybe "USE YOUR HEAD", ends "25 MPH")
• at 08:14 a sign with text starting "MILES/STEEP GRADE WITH SHARP CURVES REDUCE SPEED AND USE LOW GEAR"
• at 08:16 a sign with unreadable text and tower icon below
• at 08:26 a sign with text "STILWELL ROAD LEDO . ASSAM 0.00" flanked by two shields and above two columns of five black bars each with unreadable text; this is possibly the mile sign mentioned in Ledo Road#Construction

I have copied the above from Talk:Gyles Mackrell. -84user (talk) 18:49, 1 November 2010 (UTC)