Saturday, October 08, 2005

U-Turn Pandemonium

I have realized in my short time in California that the legality of U-Turns is not a privilege. U-Turns are a necessity due to poor city planning.


It seems as if roads and intersections are created with any thought to where people would have to turn or what would increase the throughput of the roads. Mere abundance is the goal, not people arriving at their destination easily.

Why would city planners create a division in a barrier that would more effectively allow drivers to turn directly to their destination and lessen traffic congestion when you could more easily just use an unchanged, cookie-cutter road template and have the people take their "free" U-Turn? Sure, these people slow the people that are actually turning, but why should they care? It is a law...

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