Best cars for Davis-area roads?

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

My car is approaching end-of-life, and I'm wondering if there's a car made that actually feels comfortable to drive on the roads around here. I'm getting a -very- harsh ride on the roads in and out of Davis and its a little embarassing when picking somebody up to visit. Trying to avoid that with the next car.

The OB-Davis content: We all drive on the same unevenly patched roads in and out of Davis, so when somebody says they can drive Mass Ave or Boston Ave and not feel a thing, that's a strong recommendation.

Comments

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

as someone who's driven down Lake Street in rush hour nearly every day for the past 5 years, i can say with some assurance that the two main reasons for the horrific backups in that area are all the "no turn" signs that the oh-so-persnickety folks living in the neighborhoods near Lake Street had installed, and the bike path.

if *all* the traffic that used lake street wasn't forced into this one unnatural channel, then forced to stop every 15 seconds, it would flow a lot faster.

[zmgmeister.livejournal.com]

Wouldnt the "no turn" signs make little difference to traffic passing through, because except for a little street that goes along Spy Pond, everything between the pond and Alewife Brook that crosses the bike path, side streets included, is funneled through one point?

Or did there used to be more crossings in the side streets?

A walk/dont walk signal during rush-hour traffic would improve the situation immensely, provided the pedestrians can be persuaded to wait their turn.