Dear Fucktards,
I realize your city is boring beyond belief, but that's no excuse to turn every public space into a laboratory rat maze.
It doesn't make it "interesting".
Best Regards,
Eric In Bako
It isn't just the Byzantine housing developments. It's everything - parking lots, shopping centers, everything. In Bako, the shortest distance between point "A' and point "B" involves looping around to "G", doubling back to "C" and "D" and finally deadending at "F". A simple trip to the market is a ride on a Moebius strip.
After swearing off the Mall of the Dead, I found myself having to go after all for a last minute gift. It was such a complete nightmare I finally gave up. Not by choice. I battled gridlock to the entrance of the parking lot, and after crawling along for 30 minutes, merging, converging and doubling back through pedestrian crossings, one of the helpful parking attendants directed me to... the exit. Suddenly I was back out on the street.
Fuck it. I'm giving gift cards.
And God help you if you need to turn left. Evidently this place is so rightwing they've banned left turns. Every street has a huge concrete median, with few, if any, opportunities to make a left. So you drive down the street, staring longingly at your destination on the left, knowing you have to drive a mile or two down the road in order to double back. If you even can. They don't do U-turns here either, so you usually have to turn into one of the Habitrail neighborhoods and hope you can find a way to turn around and backtrack.
And it's apparently all by design.
Maybe the Planning Department is staffed with people with Tourettes.
Or maybe they know that if they make it easy to find a way out, everyone would.
And leave for good.
