Yesterday, I riffed on a common driving phenomenon: the premature merge. While I described the phenomenon, I didn’t bother trying to explain it. I spent the last day pondering this—why do we insist on the early merge? One reason it surprises me is that the typical reaction to future-task-that-must-be-done (merging lanes, in this case) is … Continue reading On using the road, Part 2
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On using the road, Part 1
Traffic once seemed to me a natural phenomenon—like the wind or the rain. Traffic simply was; it existed as a thing apart, a force we had no control over. Now I don’t mean the traffic that comes of accidents or construction—I mean the traffic that emerges out of nothing, out of the vehicles and the … Continue reading On using the road, Part 1
On the Federal-Colfax cloverleaf
Denverite recently published a neat little piece on the Federal-Colfax “cloverleaf” interchange. If you have ever lived in the Denver metro, you’ve probably passed over or under this interchange. It’s a rare bit of transit infrastructure: neither Colfax nor Federal are interstates or highways, so the exchange always comes as sort of a surprise. An … Continue reading On the Federal-Colfax cloverleaf
On the pothole on my commute
I had a small moment of celebration driving home the other day. Driving north on Ward Road in the left lane, I crossed 64th Street and braced myself— Huh. I didn’t feel anything. This was odd because for the past two and a half years, there has been a nasty pothole right there. People who … Continue reading On the pothole on my commute
Taylor Coe 