Originally Posted by
Andy_K
There's one very short stretch on my commute where I can move from Main Street to Meadow Lane (actual names), but most of the area between the suburb where I live and the suburb where I work is filled with an uninterrupted maze of cul-de-sacs. Picking a route through there would probably double the distance of my commute.
Originally Posted by
Steely Dan
that's one of the most annoying failures of post-war suburban sprawl. the disconnectivity of it all can be maddening.
This is why I hate suburbs so much, and why I only have 2 viable route options for my commute, with one of them being noticeably less traffic and stressful than the other. We have arterial roads and neighborhood collector roads on roughly a 1x2 mile grid (1 mile between north/south streets, 2 miles between east/west streets), and then tons of one or two ways in/out developments inside those 2 square mile rectangles. Connections that are not major roads are nearly nonexistent.