h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm not exactly sure the point of the researchers review, but as a non-native resident of Tulsa I have to take severe exception to the author's statement that "Tulsa is a poorly laid out city..."

As any sober individual who has visited the city can attest, Tulsa is actually a perfectly laid out one mile grid on it's south, east and north sides. It is similiarly laid out on the west side as well, across the aforementioned river. However, this grid is skewed north/south by one-half mile from the grid in the remainder of the city. In addition, with the exception of the approximately twelve block area that encompasses the downtown area, that grid is further perfectly sub-divided by streets that are both perfectly either alphabetical as you proceed east to west, or numerical as you proceed north to south. Downtown employs its own unique geographical device that is pure Americana: all streets east of Main Street, which divides east and west downtown, are well-known U.S. cities east of the Missippi river (e.g. Boston, Cincinatti, Detroit, etc.) and similiarly all streets west are western U.S. cities. (e.g. Boulder, Cheyenne, Denver, etc.). In addition, the one-mile grid that runs north and south is compressed to a single block grid as oppossed to one mile in dimension, composed of eleventh through first street.

How any one could possible get lost in Tulsa, if you know your A-B-C's and 1-2-3's --if they have retained any hint of sobriety-- is beyond comprehension. I know of no other city in the entire United States of America which exhibits such near perfect symmetry in its thoroughfares. Any stateside resident can pop open the current Rand McNally in their local Wal-mart to attest to this fact. I can only attribute the reviewer's statement to the apparent fact that their basic language and number skills were impaired due to a state of inebriation.

Agreement! Total and unmitigated! As Owasso native Tulsa suburbian I spent a LOT of time driving ythose streets late at night whilst being incredibly bored, I dont do parties or bars leaving me with random latenight coffee houses to crash. numbers north of Pine are sixes, 26th 36th 76th 86th, south of Pine are ones, 11th 31st 51st 71st.
Downtown is slightly baffling to someone used to two way streets, butt it only takes a little driving to figure those out.
The River: the Arkansas river is rather annoying, easy to go across in the southern direction, but i always get lost on that side.
I wish i knew what bank they were talking about, then i could describe the actual area from a sober point of veiw.

Phoenix. I finally sobered up enough to remember my password. Phoenix is where we started, and where I am now, and it is layed out on 1x1 mile grid. On north south layout... so I may be spoiled... all the roads on the 1x1 mile grid are @ mimum four lanes (2 each way) with a center turning lane... it is perfectly flat with no trees or hills or any other obstructions.... so....