The
Montrose,
Akron, Ohio variation of what happens when a Taco Bell or similar low grade chain restaurant appears on empty farmland, immediately followed by dozens of additional chain restaurants and poorly planned strip malls. The result is a traffic clusterfuck on top of a social black hole, on top of an environmental disaster, known in any other place as suburban
sprawl.
In every city I visit, there is at least one
stretch of
highway full of
big box stores and crappy chain restaurants--a sure sign that the Montrose Effect has taken place.