Dear Olathe,
You always manage to find new ways to make your city unbearable to drive. Your street system is easily the worst out of all the cities in the Kansas City metro.
I wanted to treat myself to a showing of The Dark Knight on AMC 30’s IMAX screen. Google Maps puts the theater at 15 minutes from my house. An hour after I left for the movie, I returned home without seeing it or leaving my car.
The clusterfrack at 119th and I-35 would be acceptable if you had some kind of forewarning that the city’s most congested area would lose a lane. The intersection was in gridlock the entire time. I bet one percent of the people who wanted to turn left onto 119th actually ended up doing so.
Traffic signs are your friend. Maybe you should invest in one or two.
I haven’t been this pissed in awhile. I don’t know how Olathe residents physically function with this perpetual mess.
Get your shit together,
Matt
I live through this issue on a daily basis working in Olathe at the courthouse. Easily the most poorly designed city. At least they finally “Raised the Rail” and built a bridge for the train to go over the street close to I-35. That used to be a bigger mess.
That area has been awful for 15 years, and that’s not exaggerating. They keep building more and more crap out there, and the infrastructure just can’t keep up.
Preach on preacha-man … sadly, I think Missouri is just as bad at keeping up. The Paseo bridge, and everything within 5 miles of it, has been a joke for years now (at least they are finally doing something about that).
It seems like cities have finally figured out that a nice street system is quite beneficial. I can’t believe they solved that riddle so quickly.