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

[sixtyfourbeets]

> 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.

No big deal, just learn to adapt real quick, I grew up here and drove
into Manhattan
many times at various parts of the day.  This was before drivers
became courteous due to
the price of gas.
There is a certain resilient skill set a person picks up being
subjected to a stressful environment
like driving in Manhattan during rush hour.

> My biggest problem with travelling by any surface vehicle in the US is the
> fact that your signs are just awful. Crap in fact.

Thats pure baloney, I've driven across the US numerous times into
destinations I have never been to
and the signs are actually far more straightforward than I gave them credit for.
Very often I gave the signs more credit than they deserved in terms of
being complicated and as
a result got lost because I thought I knew better than the sign.

> 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...

Why drive into Manhattan anyway.

Steve M