<VV> Headlamps

[Hugo Miller]

It was a long time ago and I might be mistaken abut the road number. It 
might indeed have been a turn off from a smaller road going towards I-95 
- the road that goes down through Yeehaw Junction down past Lake 
Okechobee perhaps? But the road layout is exactly as I described it. I 
could not believe what I was seeing.
Also, there is no standardisation on US road junctions. each seems to 
be made up as they went along. So you get things like making a right 
turn onto a side road and immediately hitting a stop sign when you would 
expect an open road in front of you. In Europe everything is 
standardised. In Florida, I keep getting taken by surprise. It is just 
one of the quirks that makes Florida interesting - like the cunty 
linemarker - a stone obelisk onto which somebody has lovingly chiselled 
the names of both counties. But they wrote Citurs County instead of 
Citrus County!

On 2020-04-04 22:25, Jim Becker wrote:
> I thought I-95 though that part of Florida was all limited access
> divided with no median crossing.  There shouldn't be any left arrows.
> You have a pointer to that spot on google earth?  I'd like to look at
> it.
>
> Jim Becker
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs
> Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2020 3:12 PM
> To: Joel McGregor
> Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re:  Headlamps
>
> Yes - every damn map I've ever seen in the US! Find me one that is
> anything like as good as the British A to Z and I will pay you
> handsomely for it! I think it's the intersections that are most
> misleading. In England we have Major Roads and Minor Roads, and on 
> the
> map it's easy to see which is which and how they intersect, so you 
> can
> just follow your nose. But in Florida they all seem to be somehow
> mis-aligned, or many of them are.
> Signposting in Florida is like going back fifty years also, except 
> it's
> worse than anything I've seen elsewhere in the world! You see some
> really stupid things, like the sign on I95 heading south to Miami, 
> where
> there is an arrow pointing left to the Turnpike, which runs parallel.
> Just before you commit to making the turn by crossing the median, you
> will, if you're lucky, see in front of you a sign reading "Wrong 
> Way".
> The arrow is pointing right at the oncoming traffic on the northbound
> on-ramp! Maybe it's easier during the day, but it damn near caught me
> out one dark night. And all nights are dark on the Florida roads,
> compared to the UK, where we have vastly better street lighting. I
> accept that Florida is much less densely populated than Britain, so
> that's just how it is, but it sometimes feels very lonely out there 
> at
> night. Not even the signposts are lit up, which I find strange.
>
> On 2020-04-04 20:23, Joel McGregor wrote:
>> I've never seen a real map that had "spidery lines which don't
>> correspond to the actualt roads they represent".
>> That would be worthless. Do you have any examples?
>>
>> Joel McGregor
>
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