Crazy Roads in Texas

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by balconesfault

. The main difference being that Texas retained its public domain and continued to distribute it. Prior to 1900, Texas was a cash poor state, and used land to secure and pay off debt, reward veterans, encourage economic development, finance public education and even in building the State Capitol.

Yup, the State traded 3,000,000 acres of Panhandle land to a Chicago Syndicate in exchange for building the Capitol. Said land was organized into the famous XIT ranch, the largest in Texas' History.

[Crashj007]

Pennsylvania, Gov Giford Pinchot promised to "get the farmers out of the mud and into market, so the rural roads run from farm house front yard to the next farmhouse yard. Very erratic in direction. This also explains why there are so many old farm house sites right at a bend in the road.
Denver CO has mostly East to West streets except downtown which is at 45* angle.
With a rectangular grid it is not practical to take shortcuts and try to go in a straight line from place to place. Drive like Tron and follow the grid, until you get to a crossways street. GPS is maddening in this system, always making turns every block,
Raleigh NC is like a spider web with circular routes and radial streets at different angles.

[veloman777]

Originally Posted by SMUR

Good summary of New England roads. Poor signage especially can cause quite some grief.

I live New England roads. At least you don't have cars going 60mph+ everywhere. And they actually connect. Most roads/neighborhoods built after the auto era force you to take high speed roads to get anywhere and often make you go far out of the way. F those subdivisions.