Your main route into a city may be clear, but every road feeding into it would be gridlocked.
Besides posting road signs that warn of deer crossings, some state biologists and game officials are expanding the deer-hunting season and setting up off-road feeding stations to discourage animals from crossing highways in search of food.
In ever needy Afghanistan, Al Rashid Trust is one of the biggest doers of good deeds, rebuilding roads, feeding the poor, providing limbs to amputees and supplying sewing machines to widows so they can eke out a living.
One, tweeted minutes earlier, translates via schoolboy French into "tense atmosphere on h.b. [Avenue Habib Bourgiba]." To get there I thread past half a dozen police vans parked up in side streets, around the modern Hotel Africa now shuttered and protected - and groups of men and police gathered on the roads feeding into the Avenue.
In addition, the roads feeding a roundabout intersect the circle at a nearly perpendicular angle, forcing motorists to slow down and yield to circulating traffic.
Poor urban pigeons, they're raised in the slipstream between double decker buses tumbling along ancient, polluted roads, feeding on grains, bread and whatever else is flung their way.
One Cleveland Clinic patient with hypertension, a long-distance truck driver, was able, from the road, to feed his doctor daily results from his blood pressure monitor.
For as long as we've lived here, Molly and her owners drove the half-mile from their house up the highway and onto our gravel road to feed their horses.
I have watched herds of red deer come down to the road to feed less than a mile from hundreds of skiers taking advantage of a late cold snap by making a day trip to the slopes.
Data arriving from a combination of intelligent traffic control cameras and road sensors feed into computers that make decisions about optimal traffic signal patterns.
