On this day in 1860, “telegraph service reaches Minneapolis.” The inaugural message simply said “first!” and the second was an ad for a “virility enlargenation elixer.”
Earlier this week, Roadguy risked his life to show you the metro area’s worse ramps. His video is here. We wondered if there wasn’t another type of public infrastructure that presents the same harrowing daily examples of merge-or-die, and confounds the modern user with its outmoded designs. The answer? No. Roadguy pretty much covered it. But there's no law against making a fool of ourselves with a lesser effort, is there? Don't answer that. The result of our investigation can be found below, in handy blocky Jerk-O-Vision. (All will be better after the redesign.) Enjoy – if such a word can be used for the everyday trials you’re about to confront.
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