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12-01-2005, 08:04 PM,
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Boston is really the only city which has not received major renovations by fire. SF has, NYNY has, Chicago has, etc,... As such, when rebuilt, they got a grid system. When you have a grid system, there are many many options on how to get from A to B. You can turn up one street, and across the next, or the next one or,etc,...
In Boston, the roads are as they have been for the last 200 years. When you don't ahve a gridded system and there is only one way to go from A to B, you get gridlock.

There is this one section of highway (section...maybe 20 miles long). The locals all call it 128, the maps all it 95. In one area, the signs show the following

128 South
95 South
93 North

Here's the kicker...in this section the road is actually heading East-West,......How many ways can we say FUBAR??????

Seriously, I was heading east towards the city one morning and without changing a single lane, I was heading West and away from the city. On top of this nasty Boston Drivers, archane rules (have you seen a rotary with an intersection that goes though covered with both Stop signs and Lights), impossible high speed merges, etc,...
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