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UER Forum > Archived Rookie Forum > difference between underpass and drain (Viewed 405 times) cateyes221981  Location: Kingston, Ontario  |  difference between underpass and drain < on 4/6/2008 10:27 PM >   is there one? or are the basically the samething? piplnr65656  Location: World Wide Gender: Male  |  Re: difference between underpass and drain <Reply # 1 on 4/6/2008 11:42 PM >   An underpass is when a secondary road goes under a major road/interstate. It was in September, we saw their silhouettes fade away, outlined on the horizon against the rays of the setting sun. metawaffle  King of Puns Location: Brisbane! Gender: Male Purveyor of Fine Lampshades  |  |  Re: difference between underpass and drain <Reply # 2 on 4/6/2008 11:47 PM >   You might also be thinking of a culvert: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culvert http://www.longexposure.net Orofein  Location: Ia Gender: Male We were never in this together.  |  Re: difference between underpass and drain <Reply # 3 on 4/7/2008 12:19 AM >   Drains can go on for miles, whereas underpasses are just typically under the road. Also, you can't spend hours on end in an underpass. Unless you're...well, different 50 stars to blind your eyes, 13 stripes to hypnotize Sestet  Location: Hyde Park, New York Gender: Female A long time ago, I saw a child playing with a tangerine, the size of a tangerine.  |  Re: difference between underpass and drain <Reply # 4 on 4/7/2008 2:26 AM >   Posted by Orofein Drains can go on for miles, whereas underpasses are just typically under the road. Also, you can't spend hours on end in an underpass. Unless you're...well, different We are all beautiful and unique snowflakes, Orofein, despite what Brad Pitt says. But yes, underpasses (in fact I've never heard them called "under"passes, even though it makes more sense than "over"passes) are generally -extremely- boring; the only excitement you're bound to find is a flaming garbage can and a hastily constructed shanty town that the inhabitants were able to construct with their amazing, economy-saving tax cut checks from George Bush. *Cough* Edit: Though since you're from Canada, you're bound to not even find that. But consider the lack of shanty towns more of a plus than a negative, please. [last edit 4/7/2008 2:27 AM by Sestet - edited 1 times] Oh, I'm sick of doing Japanese things. In jail they made us be in this dumb Kabuki play about the Forty Seven Ronin, and I wanted to be Oshi, but they made me Ori! dsankt  Location: live and in the fresh  |  |  |  Re: difference between underpass and drain <Reply # 5 on 4/7/2008 8:25 AM >   GO IN CULVERTS - GO IN DRAINS - GO IN SEWERS What manner of culvertry is this? sleepycity.net: watch out for the third rail baby, that shit is high voltage. urbex and urban exploration photography cateyes221981  Location: Kingston, Ontario  |  Re: difference between underpass and drain <Reply # 6 on 4/8/2008 12:02 AM >   ok but CULVERTS and drains are the same thing correct? I just thought culverts were to small to walk in? lol metawaffle  King of Puns Location: Brisbane! Gender: Male Purveyor of Fine Lampshades  |  |  Re: difference between underpass and drain <Reply # 7 on 4/8/2008 12:46 AM >   There's definitely a difference between the two. Thinking out loud: * A culvert allows flowing water to pass through/under something. * A drain carries surface water from a built environment to be discharged elsewhere. * A culvert isn't necessarily a drain - it could be a conduit to allow a creek to run under a road, for example. * A drain isn't necessarily a culvert - an open drain, for example, is most certainly not. I hope that clears the issue up. NB: Mr. Dsankt, who chimed in earlier, has used the terms in a non-interchangeable manner, and can no doubt post a concise and useful definition. [last edit 4/8/2008 12:48 AM by metawaffle - edited 1 times] http://www.longexposure.net kowalski   |  Re: difference between underpass and drain <Reply # 8 on 4/11/2008 6:39 PM >   A culvert is basically a road or rail underpass. It could also be an underpass for crossing beneath anything else of comparatively narrow area, up to about the size of a large highway or medium-sized parking lot. A drain is anything more extensive. If you want a more technical definition, you could say a drain is anything that takes inputs from multiple sources (upstream creek, catchbasins, smaller sewer lines). A culvert just delivers a ditch or creek from one side of a surface obstacle to the other with no additional inputs. Even then, you might occasionally see a few little, insignificant inputs. In terms of larger spaces, a drain typically feels underground, a culvert doesn't. In a culvert you can usually see both ends. That doesn't preclude drains from doing that either though. A drain typically transfers water down a more significant incline (as metawaffle says, it literally *drains* something). So there are lots of ways of defining things, and I'd argue that there are "degrees" of "culvertness" (Culvertry? -- I think I argued awhile ago that that term should be used as a pejorative). What it comes down to is that once you've been doing this for awhile, and you've experienced some *real* drains, you'll know a culvert when you see one. You'll certainly know it when you get to the other end. UER Forum > Archived Rookie Forum > difference between underpass and drain (Viewed 405 times) All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 125 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 740862269 pages have been generated.