It is pretty doggone scary, but a lot of what I meant about "not one United States" is that those kinds of crossings are completely normal in probably most towns that have limited access roads going through them - ALL of them that I'm aware of. And they're often the only way to get from point A to point B, even for those of us who have the time and energy to go two or five miles out of the way, doing that would just put us at another crossing just like it.