Maps, the challenge: share any worse than this

[MerlintheMad]

If you can share anywhere on Earth that has a more screwed up intersection and/or streets designation than this one (that ambushed me Saturday), have at it:



My son and I were on our way to Pace's diner (seen in the upper left of the first pic and upper center-right of the third pic, on 500 W). I was on 1800 South (moving up from the bottom of the middle pic to that intersection), heading for 500 West; but being distracted by conversation I turned right too soon and lost my way. Notice how in the first and second pic there are three, count 'em, THREE designations for this one street that I took: "S Main St", "500 W" and "S 400 W" (and it never does become "Main St"; in the top pic you can see the real Main Street a block to the right, running almost parallel to this misattributed "Main St": so that Google Maps designation is a FUBAR: there can't be anywhere in the world where two parallel "Main Sts" exist in the same township?); the true "500 W" is seen in the upper pic, diagonally pointing to the upper left corner; and at the top in the middle and third pics, a block away. I ended up taking the roundabout (worthy of the most intricate in Europe, I am sure) onto true Main Street, at which point I gave up and let my son direct me to a Crown Burgers in Layton, twenty minutes away, heh!

 

[P22Tyler]

I grew up just down the street from there, back when Five Points Mall was in that big empty lot. It used to be a bunch of stop signs at that 5 way intersection, now that was interesting.

 

[MerlintheMad]

I grew up just down the street from there, back when Five Points Mall was in that big empty lot. It used to be a bunch of stop signs at that 5 way intersection, now that was interesting.

Yeah, I wondered when the roundabout was put in: probably about the time that accidents started happening because of increased traffic. What a freaking mess those parallel diagonal roads make: whose idea was that?

 

[P22Tyler]

Yeah, I wondered when the roundabout was put in: probably about the time that accidents started happening because of increased traffic. What a freaking mess those parallel diagonal roads make: whose idea was that?

I'm not sure honestly haha, I haven't seen another area like it in Utah. But thanks for the trip down memory lane, good times growing up in that area. When I was really little, before we moved to that area in Bountiful, we actually lived in the apartment complex right next to Pace's Dairy Ann, used to walk up there with my dad and get ice cream. I'm glad it's still going strong.