[DMCForum] Re: Traffic.

["therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxxxxx>]

Ahhhh, driving in Chocolate City.... There was like only one gas 
station that we could find within several MILES of DuPont Circle! 
Scared the hell out of my friend when I whipped the car around in 
reverse to beat a cabbie to the ONLY open pump! Not too bad on the 
way back, except I got blocked off by an agressive driver, and missed 
my turn-off, and wound up in Crystal City.

Houston though... Whoever designed the Sam Houston Tollway, they need 
to be shot. You either have to get off a mile ahead of Old Humble 
Road, or overshoot it a mile to make a U-turn to get to DMC. And it's 
like that with almost every single major offramp! I agree it was a 
pain in the ass. And the Tollway wasn't cheap either...

A city with a really cool freeway system is Columbus, Ohio. They have 
a whole bunch of freeways that curve around downtown, and will form a 
loop around all of it. The traffic is light enough, and the 
interchanges are designed for speed, with the ramps spread out and 
banked. So you can easily lap downtown like a giant circle track! Now 
THAT would be a cool place to race! But I wasn't fond of them giving 
major streets highway #'s, instead of names.

-Robert



--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Josh Porter" <joshp1986@xxxx> wrote:
> I heard that the reason it is so hard for outsiders to navigate 
> through DC is the people that planned out the streets did that on 
> purpose. So that people going after the president would have a 
> difficult time getting to the white house. I don't know if that is 
> true but makes sense to me.
> 
> Houston is another hard town for me to get through. Compared to 
where 
> I live they have no signage. I went down to Johnson space center 
> before the open house, I got lost going down there and coming back.
> 
> Josh

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