That's where the luck comes in. What makes driving on Cape Cod so interesting and increasingly deadly is its curious blend of old and new. Some of its main roads date back to colonial times and link historic villages one to another. Others follow the serpentine of the coastline and offer some of the loveliest last earthly views to be found anywhere. Old drivers drive new cars.
New drivers drive old cars.
All drive on old roads because there are no new roads here. A new road by Cape standards was laid in the first half of the twentieth century. Sometimes these whimsical changes are hinted at in advance, sometimes not. Like much of New England, the Cape has an uneasy relationship with the automobile. The Cape wants cars to behave like the horse-drawn wagons and buggies for which the roads were designed.