that is one of the most confounding aspects of post-war american suburban sprawl. these disconnected tangles of twisty single-use residential streets that all eventually end in cul-de-sacs that stretch across dozens or even hundreds of acres that are designed exclusively for single-point automobile access are really a bane for alternate modes of mobility.

i thank my lucky stars that i live in a city with a fully interconnected street grid with a regular hierarchy of major, minor, and side streets that give me a plethora of options to conveniently avoid the most obnoxiously trafficky sections of the major streets wherever i happen to be riding (except for when there's a stupid freaking cemetery in the way, oh how i hate those gigantic wastes of space).