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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | This deviant design given makes the {{w|cloverleaf interchange}} inescapeable. The tangled interchange below gives you zero choice; and the unconventional {{w|roundabout|rotary}} makes all the cars supercollide. | |
− | + | {{w|Boston}} gives the impression of being a (slightly more complicated) prank in itself. A common fiction is that the streets evolved from old cowpaths; but in the 17th century they avoided swamps and marshes and followed shorelines before the original peninsula comprising the city was expanded with landfill in the 19th century. {{w|Transportation in Boston#Road infrastructure|Boston's road infrastructure}} in general lacks a {{w|street grid}}. On top of that, roads change names and lose and add lanes seemingly at random. Prank #12 is [http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=sv&sa=N&tbo=d&rlz=1C1SKPC_enSE376SE390&biw=1241&bih=593&tbm=isch&tbnid=bkozs95jLXWv7M:&imgrefurl=http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/maps/mcintyre.html&docid=iJXb0NBWfgz8HM&imgurl=http://goofy313g.free.fr/calisota_online/maps/mcintyrebig.jpg&w=1028&h=901&ei=Fi3sUO7MLsX54QSFroCoBQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&sig=106516870722152120231&page=1&tbnh=150&tbnw=171&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:0,i:112&tx=107&ty=99 Duckburg.] | |
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:The Zero-Choice Interchange: | :The Zero-Choice Interchange: | ||
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:The Rotary Supercollider: | :The Rotary Supercollider: | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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