-=> 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... <MG>  (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

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