[DMCForum] Re: Traffic.

["Josh Porter" <joshp1986@xxxxxxxxx>]

Robert,

I took highway 59 and 45. I'm a cheepskate so even if the toll was 
$.25 I would go out of the way. I'm a product of my enviroment. Did I 
spell that e word right? It looks funny to me.

Josh

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxx> 
wrote:
> 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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