The thing that peeves me the most about our road design is when a road that they had no problems building a huge shoulder/parking lane all of a sudden narrows to become a single lane, shoulderless, sidewalkless blind curve. It is the most dangerous part of the road yet has the least accommodations for anything but a car. This is an example of what I'm talking about:

http://maps.google.com/?ll=38.78827,...,247.3,,0,3.32

If you had made the turn, a car coming up behind you may not see you until they also make the turn and after they do so, may not be expecting someone only going 15 mph. How do cyclists deal with situations like this? Why do they build roads like this? They obviously had the equipment out there at one time to clear the way and pave the road; how much trouble is it to do 3 more feet on each side?