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I moved from the remote desert southwest to the south bay area/Silicon Valley area and was very surprised to see that making U-turns at major intersections was
by sown 16y ago
I moved from the remote desert southwest to the south bay area/Silicon Valley area and was very surprised to see that making U-turns at major intersections was not only permitted but were announced with signs indicating such.
I still don't make U-turns, though.
So NUTS is not so crazy.
- crystalis 16y agoWhy is NUTS not so crazy? Because you don't make U-turns?
- sown 16y agoThe reason I said that is because it seems like NUTS is every where, across all cultures and continents and I don't think it's a great way to really put this label on one particular country. I.e., most of the US are not so creative either.
- nostrademons 16y agoYeah, I moved from suburban Boston to Silicon Valley and was surprised to see that U-turns were routine and accepted. In Massachusetts, we generally just didn't do them, because the roads weren't suitable. Just try making a U-turn on, say, Rt. 225 in Carlisle: the road isn't wide enough. And you can forget about it in downtown Boston itself, because most of the streets are one-way. Where I grew up, the accepted way of turning around was to turn into some residential development and make a 3-point turn, or just go around the block until you found a street going the opposite direction.