{"id":512,"date":"2007-03-09T11:26:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T19:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2007-03-09T11:26:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T19:26:21","slug":"malfunction-junctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/malfunction-junctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Malfunction Junctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/306-sunspots-the-upstream-edition\">Signal vs Noise<\/a> today referred to the Wikipedia article on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malfunction_Junction\">Malfunction Junctions<\/a> &#8211; confusing and dangerous intersections.  There are some funny photos <a href=\"http:\/\/thrillingwonder.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/incomprehensible-intersections.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The one that immediately came to mind for me is the Route 3\/Drum Hill Road rotary in Lowell, MA.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;q=lowell,+ma&#038;layer=&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;om=1&#038;z=18&#038;ll=42.622422,-71.366624&#038;spn=0.002866,0.007312&#038;t=k&#038;iwloc=addr\">aerial view<\/a> doesn&#8217;t do it full justice, but when you&#8217;re in the car exiting the highway and are immediately put into a four-lane roundabout, it feels far more dysfunctional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post in Signal vs Noise today referred to the Wikipedia article on Malfunction Junctions &#8211; confusing and dangerous intersections. There are some funny photos here. The one that immediately came to mind for me is the Route 3\/Drum Hill Road rotary in Lowell, MA. The aerial view doesn&#8217;t do it full justice, but when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-8g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}