Colorado Springs is the poster child for poor city master planning. The traffic is completely obnoxious for a city of its size. A single interstate, if that is an appropriate name, runs through the city from north to south. The rest is surface streets. Streets, that during morning and evening rush, become packed. Streets that are full of cars. Streets that become overwhelmed to the point that even the traffic signals cannot control the flow. I cannot count the number of times that I have been stuck staring at a green light. Why was I stuck? There are ten cars just siting in the intersection. Why are they sitting there? Either they are real dumb, often times the answer, or they just happened to end up there, because a half mile down the road, someone else is stuck in an intersection.
The poster child for suburban sprawl, a city that cannot keep up with its own good fortune. That is beautiful Colorado Springs.