My Experience with the Grid System

When my family moved to Salt Lake City, I remember my mom being relieved at the ease of navigating around Salt Lake. She grew up in Watervliet, New York which is a little city just outside of Albany. The streets in Watervliet do not have order in their naming nor where they lead.

In Salt Lake City, the roads are laid out in a grid system centered around Temple Square downtown. When I learned to drive, navigating came with ease. The only aspect I found difficult was keeping straight which interstate was which, but even that became natural after on-hand experience. The lucky thing for new drivers or new drivers to Salt Lake City is that if you gets lost or confused about the fastest way to reach a location in the city, you always have a back up of driving through the grid to the coordinates of your destination.