"Peter Cole" wrote in message ...
On 10/19/2010 4:06 AM, Chalo wrote:
Peter Cole wrote:

I'm not sure which is cause and effect. Boston is tough because of
geography (harbor & 3 rivers), colonial street layouts, and one of the
least graceful highway overlays in the 50-60's motoring Great Leap
Forward. In response, Boston developed a driving culture that is
famously no holds barred, and has been awarded the worst cycling booby
prize several times. It's no sun belt metropolis, nor neatly gridded
Gotham. If there was a city that could be a US Amsterdam, it might well
be Boston.

I think that it's a combination of the way the streets are laid out
coupled with the intense work drive that makes everyone in a hurry.

New Orleans, for example, has the same sort of winding streets due
to the crescent of the Mississippi river but the pace there is much slower.
Of course, NOLA's stat of the most bars per capita offers its own problems
with driving and cycling.