I lived in a part of town that was in the process of infill so a lot of people “knew” it without really knowing it.
It was practically a given that the first time someone visited they would arrive 15-20 minutes later than they estimated. It seemed like an area without a lot of traffic but it was in that uncanny valley where there’s enough traffic where you catch a lot of lights, and you aren’t turning right on red because there are people in front of you, and you may or may not make the left turn light on the first cycle.
Also the whole city is so tuned for one direction of traffic that it takes longer to go across the narrow dimension than the long one.
There was a movie theater that I found I could reliably get to faster on a Friday evening if I drove five blocks past it and doubled back, the lights were that screwed up. 15 blocks faster than 5.
It was practically a given that the first time someone visited they would arrive 15-20 minutes later than they estimated. It seemed like an area without a lot of traffic but it was in that uncanny valley where there’s enough traffic where you catch a lot of lights, and you aren’t turning right on red because there are people in front of you, and you may or may not make the left turn light on the first cycle.
Also the whole city is so tuned for one direction of traffic that it takes longer to go across the narrow dimension than the long one.
There was a movie theater that I found I could reliably get to faster on a Friday evening if I drove five blocks past it and doubled back, the lights were that screwed up. 15 blocks faster than 5.