Originally Posted by
The Human Car
The difference between what I road on as a kid (Tempe, AZ) and were I am now, you really have to wonder if the road designers were on drugs.
Yeah I did some burb bashing on another thread a while back and got hacked for it. When comparing any two houses from the same bird's eye view distance, the burb's real time itinerary is much longer. Burbs were designed for motorists who didn't like the efficiency of city streets, so they conceived the burbs in a supposed traffic "pacifying" way. But in fact what pacifies one person is the hellfire of another... I don't like any form of traffic pacifying, because they annoy the cyclist at least as much as the motorist.