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• baines@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  and then 14th SE doesnt connect with 14th NE

  thanks portland

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  • Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My city has a street that changes name 4 times as you go down it.

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    • daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Better than Atlanta that names every road Peachtree :)

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      • gramie@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Japan doesn’t even bother with street names, except the largest ones in big cities. If you want to find a house, they are also not necessarily numbered sequentially. Sometimes the houses in a neighborhood are numbered in the order they were built.

        If you want to find a house, you go to the neighborhood map and look there. At least, that’s how it used to be. Now everything is GPS. I was using GPS in a car close to 30 years ago, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the first place in the world to have consumer GPS, simply because they needed it.

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    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you in Austin? Because Austin has that.

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      • protist@retrofed.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Which part of Koenig/2222/Northland/Allandale/Bullick Hollow/290 do you live on?

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lexington, KY? They have several that do that.

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• HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure but you’ll never encounter the magic of a crooked alley snaking its way through a maze of medieval building.

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  • protist@retrofed.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Istanbul blew my naive American mind when I visited

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    • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tunis, Tunisia. The old town was something else.

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  • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not medieval, but, Boston has some good alleys, nooks, and crannies.

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• CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes! I can get up so much speed on those straight roads! Blow through a few stop signs and I can easily drive all the way through a house!

  Easy navigation isn’t relevant in a neighborhood of nothing but houses and play space, roads with curves are incredibly important to slow the flow of traffic

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  • compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a flipside too though. Straight lines aren’t great for suburbs for the speed reason, but once you reach enough density and the roads get narrow enough, grids make planning easier, and navigating easier for pedestrians. Roundabouts are a nice way to slow traffic through straight roads

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    • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ok? So put straight roads in your cities and high density areas. Neighborhoods of just houses aren’t what you’re describing

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      • compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are residential neighborhoods in cities though, where straight roads with roundabouts and other traffic calming makes more sense than a curving a road, for the purposes of lowering driving speeds.

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    • daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Straight roads have little to do with driver speed. It’s how you design the roads. Wide lanes with buildings set back from the road? Higher speeds. That’s why some initiatives put curbs that jut out into the road (not into the lanes of travel) with trees and plants and such, and remove road striping. Combine pedestrians and road traffic on a road that looks more like a parking lot and you get drivers driving slowly. Sounds counter-intuitive, but it works.

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    • Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, pedestrians aren’t really a consideration in this kind of town planning.

      If they were, they would’ve put in sidewalks. Which they didn’t.

      Can’t really have it both ways.

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  • protist@retrofed.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t need curves to slow traffic, there a ton of ways to slow traffic

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• BorgDrone@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Over here in 2026 we have satnav in our cars and on our bikes.

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  • LordMayor@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You have to understand that there are places in the USA where “city planning” is completely unheard of. They seem to let landowners develop however the fuck they want. They end up with grids of identical houses with little thought of connections to services such as shopping, healthcare, recreation, etc.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have you considered maybe it’s easier to navigate and plan a grid pattern?

  With every corner looking the same? What a joke.

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  • compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only from above. When you’re on foot, grid systems feel plenty variable and lively

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