Comment on It hurts.

• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Less intersections where cars can crash into pedestrians or other vehicles

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• lps2@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I wish, just check Atlanta - winding stroads as far as the eye can see

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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