[nylug-talk] OT - city wide GPS question???

[Ajai Khattri]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:

> I really don't understand this conversation.  I'm from Los Angeles and 
> live in Jersey and have never had a problem navigating in Manhattan or 
> Brooklyn.  In Manhattan, the streets are numbered.  In Brooklyn they're 
> either numbered (yeah, on incompatible grids) or sort of alphabetical, 
> with the odd road with some silly historical or gratuitious name (who 
> actually calls "Avenue of the Americas" that?).

For the most part I agree but somewhere south of Houston that nice scheme 
breaks down. Also, what about streets that are one-way but change to 
two-way for part of the time? (3rd Avenue springs to mind). If you're 
driving that's a real pain to deal with.

And Brooklyn is a different country as far as Im concerned :-)

My biggest problem with travelling by any surface vehicle in the US is the 
fact that your signs are just awful. Crap in fact. Directions are not 
clear (or non-existent in a lot of cases). Also, knowing that there's a 
street fair several blocks ahead of time would be bloody useful - instead 
you just hit a road block where the entire traffic flow is trying to make 
a detour down a street not designed to carry that many lanes of traffic...



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Aj. (ajai at bitblit.net)