In light of Boston's Olympic bid: navigation

[Recursion]

[petronius]

1. What do ya wanna go there for?

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[panader0]

2. I just heard about this and that was the first thing I thought too.

Where would they build all of the facilities?

[hack89]

3. Their plan centered on using existing facilities. nt

[Fearless]

4. The events wouldn't actually be "in" Boston but rather in the suburbs

Allegedly in preexisting structures. If chosen, it's still going to be a clusterf*ck for locals though. I can't wait.

[mythology]

5. As somebody who lives in the Boston area

I really hope that the bid fails. There's just not space for the Olympics here.

And yes, somebody does need to pick up Boston, move it, set down new roads and then put back the buildings. It is utterly infuriating trying to get from point A to point B. Recently I had to remain cognizant enough after major surgery to navigate for my mom who lives in Maine and can't deal with Boston roads.

[Recursion]

6. I used to live on the east side of Mission Hill, by Heath Street

Mission Hill / Roxbury is IMO the worst section of Boston navigationally, which is probably why they chose it for this.

[Yavin4]

7. Getting to a venue should be an event unto itself

You should be awarded medals if you can get from point a to b within a limited number of moves.

[Little Star]

8. Bingo

[hunter]

9. Can't be worse than London.

Before the age of GPS I've been despairingly lost in both those cities, especially when I've wandered into neighborhoods where nobody speaks any sort of English I understand.

[surrealAmerican]

10. ... and to think ...

... New York is hard to navigate compared to Chicago. Chicago is probably the easiest city in the country.

[adirondacker]

11. I would nominate Salt Lake for the easiest. Simple grid with sequential numerical names and .

direction...
"Salt Lake’s unique street numbering system is almost identical in concept to that of longitude and latitude. Think of the point at which the Equator intersects the Greenwich Meridian – in other words, 0 degrees longitude and 0 degrees latitude. On the globe, that zero-point is just south of Ghana off the West African Coast. In Salt Lake City, it’s at Temple Square. Salt Lake is laid out on a simple grid system. Virtually every address in the city has a set of two coordinates telling how far east or west and how far north or south it is from Temple Square (or the corner of Main and South Temple Streets to be exact). Although an address such as 682 East 400 South may look strange to you, just remember that it simply describes a location on the grid. Consequently, both “halves” of the address (“682 East” and “400 South”) are equally significant, the second half being the street name and the first half being a specific point on that street. Even streets with names (Harvard Avenue, for instance) also have a numbered “coordinate.” If you were looking for Harvard Avenue, it would be helpful for you to know that its coordinate is 1175 south."

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g60922-c11305/Salt-Lake-City:Utah:Finding.Your.Way.Around.Salt.Lake.City.html

Never got lost in that city driving.

[Xipe Totec]

13. Come to the Rio Grande Valley

Where you can drive in a straight line for 50 miles or more, through several towns, and still be on the same street.

[adirondacker]

14. Yup the surveyors and planners figured out grid logic about the time they settled the West.

The East is primarily squirrel trail routes

[Xipe Totec]

12. Boston's motto: If you don't know where you are, you don't belong here. nt