re: Anyone been to Dothan AL? City looks laid out well.

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I have to agree with you. Loop. Bisected highways. Boulevards at diagonals and a strong grid.

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The strongest grid in Dothan is the power grid required to keep all those traffic lights on the circle working.
Worst part about the lights is that they are all on timers rather than having a sensor register whether there is an automobile at an intersection. The red lights are excruciatingly long!

My mother lives next door to my brother's family there. The town and the people are very nice and downhome.

Dothan has produced a few good LSU players. Josh Williford being the most recent I can think of.
And, prior to Netflix and Amazon wrecking the movie rental business, Movie Gallery was headquartered in Dothan.

It's a decent town. Population around 60k. No real industry to speak of since apart from a nearby nuclear power plant it mostly peanuts and soy beans with cotton making a comeback after being devastated by the Boll Weevil. Peanuts turned out to be much pore profitable than cotton and the folks in Enterprise erected a golden boll weevil statue because of the boon to their economy.

Dothan hosts the National Peanut Festival in October/November each year. Instead of worshiping idols of boll weevils, Dothan has erected numerous idols of peanuts through he city.

I used to hate the place, but after living in the Atlanta metro area for twenty years I kind of enjoy driving four hours to spend a weekend with my side of the family that lives there. It sure beats the hell out of where we were raised in Ashland, Kentucky!

Dobb's BBQ still there on Southside.

What sort of doc are you?

It's a shite city to live in. Gangs, crime, traffic, terrible public schools.

It has a big commuter geographical area. All of Southeast Alabama, extreme southwest Georgia and a few counties in Florida it is the closest real city of any size.
It serves that function very well, all the business on the circle.

Living in a small town or the country 30-60 minutes away and you commute, go there regularly or occasionally, then it's a good city.

The traffic is out of proportion for its size and what the city offers. The whole business, retail, entertainment etc is almost all on a few big highways connected the circle, 231, 84. Nothing but congested strip malls everywhere. High speed limit, traffic lights every 5 seconds, a million people weaving through every which way. It has been one of the most accident prone and deadliest stretches in the country and it sucks to drive on. And it's where everything is.

did they have their hazard lights on?

Shreveport/Bossier has a class A layout 49 north to south, 20 east to west, 220 loop, and river parkways and both sides of river.

King’s Appliance, home of the talking twenty dollar bill, on the circle in Dothan.

Played a jr high football game there once. The smell of baking bread filled the air. Undoubtedly, a bakery was close by.

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Shreveport/Bossier has a class A layout

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Yes it does. With Mogadishu caliber maintenance. Pretty sure they’d need to replace the entire suspension on my rental when I brought it back.

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Well it’s not an interstate so yea it has red lights

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Ah didnt really look at Photo long enough to see if they were interstate roads.