I wish, just check Atlanta - winding stroads as far as the eye can see
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mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 week agoactually tho, flowing windy streets and roads are so much better.
- more interesting
- less of a drag track
- not depressing stroadie strips
- keeps people on main roads rather than just trying to cut through residential streets
- naturally manages driver attention
lps2@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Zink@programming.dev 1 week ago
Yes to all, especially the driver attention one.
I have two options when driving to work. One is shorter and takes straight level roads through the newest part of town.
The other way is slightly longer but it’s a twisty hilly road through the countryside.
I take the longer route every single day unless it is actively snowing or something. And now that hybrid WFH is a common thing, I don’t often drive in the snow.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
I mean, you can organise grids to be more or less stroady, and if you have too much of this going - like you have a medieval street plan - you can get the opposite thing where cars are forced through areas only suited to pedestrians, and everyone has to flatten themselves against building walls to make room.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
but the point is that by not organizing it into a grid, drivers aren’t going to cut through a low speed local street, keeping those streets less polluted and safer.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
That’s true of a tree style layout, but only that, and those have problems of their own. The example about moving aside for a car going through a narrow European street was something I’ve actually experienced.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Less intersections where cars can crash into pedestrians or other vehicles