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Welcome to Fairfax Underground, a project site designed to improve communication among residents of Fairfax County, VA. Feel free to post anything Northern Virginia residents would find interesting.
Why do so many area roads dead end (courts, cul-de-sacs)?
Posted by:
Super Why?
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Date: March 18, 2018 01:53PM
Why is that?
Re: Why do so many area roads dead end (courts, cul-de-sacs)?
Posted by:
Super Que?
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Date: March 18, 2018 02:02PM
Why are you such a faggot?
Re: Why do so many area roads dead end (courts, cul-de-sacs)?
Posted by:
curious driver 82
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Date: March 18, 2018 06:56PM
Super Why? Wrote:
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> Why is that?
There is some history you have to understand, here. The cul-de-sac was created in France just after the 100 years war to prevent the French peasants from rising up and driving straight through to the royal residence. This was brought to colonial America when the French came to help fight the British in the Revolutionary War. The tradition of having dead-end roads continues to this day. So we can thank our French brethren for not only helping defeat the British, but for giving us glorious circular dead ends to many of our roads.
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> Why is that?
There is some history you have to understand, here. The cul-de-sac was created in France just after the 100 years war to prevent the French peasants from rising up and driving straight through to the royal residence. This was brought to colonial America when the French came to help fight the British in the Revolutionary War. The tradition of having dead-end roads continues to this day. So we can thank our French brethren for not only helping defeat the British, but for giving us glorious circular dead ends to many of our roads.
Re: Why do so many area roads dead end (courts, cul-de-sacs)?
Posted by:
STFU Stan
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Date: March 18, 2018 07:13PM
Shut the fuck up about the roads.
Re: Why do so many area roads dead end (courts, cul-de-sacs)?
Posted by:
I like roads
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Date: March 18, 2018 07:42PM
Doesn't everyone?
Re: Why do so many area roads dead end (courts, cul-de-sacs)?
Posted by:
street user 48
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Date: March 18, 2018 07:46PM
The road posts are informative. We need to understand our road system since we use it every day to get to work and school and the dairy. I really enjoy learning about roads.
Here's a question - Why does Miller Rd. in Oakton have that 90 degree bend? I think it needs to be straightened.
Here's a question - Why does Miller Rd. in Oakton have that 90 degree bend? I think it needs to be straightened.
Re: Why do so many area roads dead end (courts, cul-de-sacs)?
Posted by:
Ranarfon
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Date: March 21, 2018 10:23AM
Curb are cool too.
Re: Why do so many area roads dead end (courts, cul-de-sacs)?
Posted by:
Hecdt
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Date: March 21, 2018 10:50AM
Did the Arthur Treacher pussy change to roads now?
It just about as annoying.
It just about as annoying.
Re: Why do so many area roads dead end (courts, cul-de-sacs)?
Posted by:
Cleverness
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Date: March 21, 2018 01:34PM
Cul-de-sacs serve the needs of local residents while frustrating the desires of far-flung commuters to plow through our neighborhoods at break-neck speeds twice a day. Hah-hah, hah-hah!
Re: Why do so many area roads dead end (courts, cul-de-sacs)?
Posted by:
ain't that the truth
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Date: March 21, 2018 01:49PM
Cleverness Wrote:
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> Cul-de-sacs serve the needs of local residents
> while frustrating the desires of far-flung
> commuters to plow through our neighborhoods at
> break-neck speeds twice a day. Hah-hah, hah-hah!
There was an accident in my neighborhood so I had to take a different way to my house. Turned tight off main road (with the accident), made a left, a right, a left, another left, a right and finally a left onto our court. The entire time a woman was following me thinking I was going to lead her past the accident and to the exit of the neighborhood. I was laughing my ass off when she turned around at the end of the court, drove back up to the entrance and just sat there. I'm sure she was like 'where the fuck am I and how do I get out of here'.
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> Cul-de-sacs serve the needs of local residents
> while frustrating the desires of far-flung
> commuters to plow through our neighborhoods at
> break-neck speeds twice a day. Hah-hah, hah-hah!
There was an accident in my neighborhood so I had to take a different way to my house. Turned tight off main road (with the accident), made a left, a right, a left, another left, a right and finally a left onto our court. The entire time a woman was following me thinking I was going to lead her past the accident and to the exit of the neighborhood. I was laughing my ass off when she turned around at the end of the court, drove back up to the entrance and just sat there. I'm sure she was like 'where the fuck am I and how do I get out of here'.