Subj : Re: streets To : JOE MACKEY From : NANCY BACKUS Date : Mon Jun 03 2019 11:21:00 -=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Daryl Stout on 05-30-19 08:27 <=- JM> Another thing that has annoyed me are the lack of signage in some JM> states. Its as if one is to be a resident there and know their way JM> around. Routes through cities and towns are the worse. Yup, some are worse than others.... JM> I spent nearly two hours yesterday morning trying to find my way out JM> of Layfatte, IN. I saw more of that town than I cared to see. JM> I'm going down a street, there's a sign reading route whatever then JM> suddenly at a corner is an arrow, pointing to the left and "turn JM> here!" No x distance turn left, so one can move over. At least JM> in a city you can circle the block. I guess they figure that you are able to look way ahead, and plan it out... Baltimore was like that, too... and had a lot of one-way streets that made it hard to circle the block.... but it works out eventually... JM> On Interstates its miles JM> and miles before one can back track. One reason I hate them so. But at least on interstates there generally is a lot more warning for needing to be in a particular lane... ;) (But often more traffic, which doesn't help, admittedly...) JM> With my phone, Apple Maps on the car and finding a hot spot I JM> sometimes use their directions. Those are usually useless. It will be JM> go this distance to that point, then turn, back around, up and down, JM> hither and yon when the street/road I'm looking for is a block away. You are better off having a real map... so that you can just see that what you want is just a block away.... ;) JM> And, stopping in some town asking where something is and the young JM> clerks have to pull out their phone to find the place is nearby. One JM> would think people would have some idea of what is where in their JM> town. And its not some out-of-way place but a major highway. One would think.... Lots of people just don't pay any attention to what's around them, though... JM> I had to stop at an Enterprise place in Jersey City some time ago JM> and asked, among other things, where Route 1/9 (same road, two JM> different numbers) was. The guy printed out Google maps in a very JM> round about area I got dizzy just looking at. It was two blocks away. JM> His directions gave me a tour of Jersey City and its environs. Maybe he thought you needed that tour for your enrichment... (Or his... :0) JM> I like it when people give landmarks where to turn. I always find that knowing what to watch for, if nothing else, gives reassurance that one is at the right place... and might make it easier to find the right turn... ;) It's even better when one can see the landmark in plenty of time.... ;) On a recent trip, my sister gave me directions, complete with landmarks... but I didn't recognize the landmark as what it was until I was past the intersection... did some back-tracking... ;) > Yet nowadays, you have to worry about road rage. JM> Oddly enough I've not run into that, that I;m aware of. Almost JM> everyone has been polite. Of course it be my WV plates and think I'm JM> some dumb hillbilly who has never been at a town of more than 500 JM> people before. :) Maybe... ;) I've not run into road rage either, though, and I've got NY plates.... :) JM> Joe (in Hannibal, MO, will visit the Mark Twain house, etc then JM> west to CO). Moving right along there, you are... ;) ttyl neb .... Tomorrow, I've got to quit procrastinating ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140) .