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#182503 - 09/18/09 02:21 AM Re: How is your city laid out? [Re: UncleGoo]
ki4buc Old Hand Registered: 11/10/03 Posts: 710 Loc: Augusta, GA	Originally Posted By: UncleGoo Remember the old "Road Legally Closed" signs that were used at constuction sites? If I remember correctly, the Danbury newspaper did a story on them, saying that, at that time, it was impossible to get from Danbury to Brookfield(the neighboring town to the north) without having to drive on one of those "closed" roads... Haven't been here that long to see that. @Susan: Yeah, they practically stop for rain. What is ironic is they'll go tearin' through town when there is snow. Coming from Florida, snow is more like really slippery rain. Luckily though in this area, you pretty much just stay home one day and the next day it's all cleaned up. Now, I've just jinxed myself for this winter. Oh, and there are still ferries that transport cars across the Connecticut River (that's the big one that goes near Hartford ). There are about 7 rivers going across the state. Kind of forces everything into distinct areas that way.
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#182506 - 09/18/09 02:29 AM Re: How is your city laid out? [Re: ki4buc]
scafool Pooh-Bah Registered: 12/18/08 Posts: 1534 Loc: Muskoka	This has been good. It seems the problems are well known. So what would you look at first if you were heading into a new area? What kind of things would you guys focus on at your first glance at an area map, and in which order? _________________________ May set off to explore without any sense of direction or how to return.
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#182509 - 09/18/09 04:14 AM Re: How is your city laid out? [Re: scafool]
CANOEDOGS Pooh-Bah Registered: 02/03/07 Posts: 1853 Loc: MINNESOTA	side roads in and out..i just got back from a trip to Chicago with a SUV full of stuff for my Daughter. i have only been there once before and that was passing thru on the way south on the tollway.a trip i said i would never do again.Minneapolis can get busy but its nothing next to Chicago traffic..this trip i had to get into Evanston.i'll just leave the ride down Touhy ave at nite out of this..on the way out a few days later i thought 41 to Milwaukee might be a good escape route--wrong--while sitting in traffic i went over the map looking at side roads to places like Vernon Hills and maybe 14 to Big Foot..i would be happy to drive a side road twice the miles and keep moving than stay on a jamed up freeway.
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#182553 - 09/18/09 05:52 PM Re: How is your city laid out? [Re: CANOEDOGS]
ki4buc Old Hand Registered: 11/10/03 Posts: 710 Loc: Augusta, GA	Originally Posted By: CANOEDOGS i would be happy to drive a side road twice the miles and keep moving than stay on a jamed up freeway. I cannot stand sitting still for no apparent reason. I "blindly" followed some Google Maps directions that gave me one route. Turns out going another way was 15 minutes faster. Straighter road, no lights, higher speed limit, less traffic. Oh well. Lessons learned. Physical Map in the car. Still have not yet purchased a GPS. Trying to train myself to be "situationally aware".
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#182560 - 09/18/09 07:24 PM Re: How is your city laid out? [Re: Desperado]
Andy Enthusiast Registered: 09/13/07 Posts: 378 Loc: SE PA	Originally Posted By: Desperado The entire state of PA does not count. It was obviously pre-planned to be a disaster from the start. My own town in PA is one square mile laid out in a grid. You'd think that after 60 years in one place I'd know my way around. Well, I do but only by landmarks as I just never got around memorizing street names. My wife is always telling me to go somewhere on 'this' street using its name. I have to ask, 'you mean on the other side of the Wawa? or up by the water tower next to the park?' (There's also a water tower next to the high school, too.) Strange fact. On the east side of Union Street it's East Sickle on the west side it's West Sickles. And apparently no one in local govertment can explain why.
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#182561 - 09/18/09 07:38 PM Re: How is your city laid out? [Re: scafool]
Wheels Journeyman Registered: 12/19/08 Posts: 55 Loc: Central Virginia	I grew up in extreme southern New Jersey. Around 1942 they cut the end of NJ off by building a canal - to provide protection for ships going up and down the East Coast so they wouldn't have to go into the Atlantic. Anyway, all the roads were simply cut through. Now, there are two of each north-south road with no indication which is which (except the house numbers, of course). You get to the end of Shunpike at the canal and you can see where it continues on the other side but you would need to backtrack and get to one of two bridges to get to the island and make your way back to Shunpike to complete its length. Townships and towns were sliced as well. Locals don't even think about it but it must be confusing as all get out to the hoards of vacationers visiting each summer.
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#182582 - 09/18/09 11:05 PM Re: How is your city laid out? [Re: CAP613]
Desperado Veteran Registered: 11/01/08 Posts: 1530 Loc: DFW, Texas	Originally Posted By: CAP613 We have stairways that are marked on the map as a road. I've had my in car GPS tell me to drive down at least two of them, and across a bridge that is not only not there but never was there( but the road on both sides is the same name.) Look at downtown Pittsburgh, it has two grids that start from the rivers that come together at the point, and if you want to go above Grant Street for get it. As we say "If you want to get from here to there the road will be under construction or one way the wrong way. No matter which way you want to go. Outside the city we use to joke that the road crew would follow a cow and where ever the cow went is where the road would go. I had someone give me directions to turn at the Hays barn, It burnt down in 1969. The road that I had to turn on is a new road built in the last two years. Yep, that's the Pennsylvania I was talking about. The GPS in our rental was so far off as to be comical, but my iPhone was dead on. _________________________ I do the things that I must, and really regret, are unfortunately necessary. RIP OBG
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