Bucolic? Well, Sometimes

The New York Times has a nice piece today about driving on Long Island. Despite the nastiness of traffic most days and most times, pleasant afternoon drives can be found.

My first real exposure to Long Island, moving here from Connecticut, was Jericho Turnpike. What a dismal introduction. All those many strip malls, with their endless entrances and exits that slow traffic.

My own neighborhood is getting more difficult to get out of. We're bordered on one site by a very busy county road that leads down to Jericho Turnpike. At the end of the other road, Dix Hills, also leading to Jericho, is a five-way intersection that has become nearly impossible to get through now. I don't know what has happened, other than the resetting of lights because of a relatively new grocery store but that intersection has become a real mess, with drivers making haphazard turns in front and to the side of other cars as they try to enter one of the five roads leading into the intersection.