This post submitted by Interested Party.
Maneuvering a refrigerated truck through the streets of Rapid City for three years teaches the driver a few things about traffic flow.
7am to 8:30 is bad. Noon is bad. 4:30pm to 6 is bad.
The train obstructs multiple egress opportunities simultaneously, often moving in the same direction as that restaurant that only allows deliveries during an open window closing in two minutes.
On one exasperating morning thirty years ago, I shouted out of the cab of the truck, "Omaha Street should be one way from West Boulevard to Mountain View and West Main should be one-way all the way to St. Joe!" True story.
Then, it dawned on me that Mountain View should be one-way to Jackson Boulevard and that Jackson Boulevard should be one-way from Mountain View to West Main! Left-hand turn lanes appeared to me in a vision.
Why do people have to die before things get fixed?
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