Still a better system than Boston, having navigated both MANY times. To call Boston’s streets a “system” is an insult to the very concept of order.
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sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
How about a grid system that changes direction at every single avenue?
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Speaking as someone who has been living in towns with rivers for most of my life:
This is the way.
My experience clearly says that you will loose orientation and get confused the moment you go to a district that is not alligned with the riverbank.
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Looks like everyone started a new road perpendicular to the shore line, and the mess occurred when the roads got long enough to meet.
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
No they’re were designed that way. The names remain the same no matter how many times they turn. The street i live on starts off going west, then south, then south west and back to west again on the other side of town.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Bingo. Allow me to introduce you to the colonial French seigneurial system.