tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616919.post3458925817755917546..comments2009-12-21T17:15:23.343-08:00Comments on All Kinds of Crazy: This makes me mad!snerkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12893968313101080129noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616919.post-38711184178049690522009-01-08T19:20:00.000-08:002009-01-08T19:20:00.000-08:00city owning 12 trucks? maybe. but all 12 trucks s...city owning 12 trucks? maybe. but all 12 trucks salting/sanding/plowing? i think not. <BR/><BR/>to believe there are that many trucks out there clearing the streets would be like believing that unicorns, easter bunnies, lephracans, and S____ C____ exist. hmph! <BR/><BR/>re: why sidestreets don't get cleared http://www.francesbula.com/?p=884Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616919.post-52053303074298353962009-01-07T00:14:00.000-08:002009-01-07T00:14:00.000-08:00" Instead it appears one grid was laid down for th...<I>" Instead it appears one grid was laid down for the big roads, then they allowed a child to draw curlicues inside the grid to determine where the small roads would go"</I><BR/><BR/>This is entirely intentional. I guess Richmond's roads were laid out during the period where city planners believed in the "traffic as water" theory. (Aalternatively, it was developers who did it because houses on cul-de-sacs sell better even if collectively they are worse for society at large.) Anyways, the only problem with the "traffic is like water" theory is that people driving from place to place <I>aren't</I> like drops of water at all in that they aren't interchangeable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com