Driving round and round and round

Brasilia was built for around 500,000 inhabitants (never mind that there are close to 3 million in the metropolitan area now) and, in the 1960s, was a city of the future. That is to say, a city built with the car in mind. Visionary planners plotted out a city with virtually no stop lights or left turns. Instead, there are looped-de-loops galore with cloverleafs that foil new drivers to the city. Struggling to figure out which lane I need to be transitioning to and when to turn to get turned in the right direction, I am regularly sighted twisting through intersections. On my first trip to work, I impressively missed my exit and looped through an intersection six times before getting set in the right direction. The challenges of a newcomer navigating this city can be well understood.