Your site is realy very interesting. http://www.bignews.com

Hey, I was thinking the same thing about one thing I like about cities like Boston and London – there’s something nice about how a city with winding streets can surprise you. It’s very organic, the way the streets seemed to have evolved.

It’s a love/hate thing. I bitch about the lack of logic in the planning of Boston, and the continued mismanagement– like a four year project in Cambridge to move one rotary 100 feet and encouraging worse traffic than ever… but, well, it is better than a the heartless grids of the Midwest.
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We have a street here in OKC that starts out as Eastern Avenue, turns into Martin Luther King, goes back to Eastern Avenue and finally becomes Boulevard. It’s straight north-south road without any real curves.

Other than that, OKC is built on a north-south east-west grid much like Chicago. Makes it very easy to get around.

Unfortunately, it’s Oklahoma City…so there’s really not a lot worth getting around to.

I think I’d take Boston’s craziness for a little more class and culture.

Karl!!
Only you could come up with such an observation. Just coming back from Chichago, it is very grid like. But of course they do have Oprah….
But it seems very spread out.

Go, Karl. Boston has a history of appreciating and fostering genuine eccentricity. Your post echos and expands on a great copmmentary many years ago on WBZ TV by political analyst Dick Flavin. He did a map of the city showing how West Roxbury is really south of Roxbury, etc. Boston has LOTS of quirks which is what makes it so wonderful–somehow everything is possible here!