Why the rural road grid doesn’t follow straight lines →

This is a fascinating explanation of why you sometimes need to make dogleg turns on otherwise straight rural roads:

De Ruijter soon learned that these kinks and deviations were more than local design quirks. They are grid corrections, as he refers to them in a new photographic project: places where North American roads deviate from their otherwise logical grid lines in order to account for the curvature of the Earth.

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