>>1970177the concept of a "straight" road is a convenient fiction. in reality there is almost no such thing as a straight road. we simply choose to handwave away the curves and corners that most roads experience, by describing them either as "experimentation during the construction phase" or by positing a completely separate category we call "cloverleafs" or "interchanges" whose distinctness from "straight roads" is another convenient fiction. and god forbid you point out the transitional areas where it's not quite a "straight road" but it isn't quite a "cloverleaf" either, you'll see all kinds of mental gymnastics about how it's really a "cloverleaf pretending to be a road", or it's a "road that needs to pick a side", or hey look there's a traffic signal there so that makes it actually a road because it's "unnatural" for a cloverleaf to have a light because it said so in some shitty obsolete fiction book pushed by the department of transportation
