Comment on Why don't urban/suburban streets and roads use a center storm channel?
stoy@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
That would drastically increase the frequency of aquaplaning, the convention is to drain the water from the road surface, not collect it on the road.
Central draining would also cause more floods as the drain would need to be cleaned more often, as any clog would immediately result in a flood covering the entire road surface.
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Why would a single clog immediately flood the entire road surface? Sure, the water might accumulate spanwise, but no street is perfectly flat, so water also flows longitudinally along the road. Water would pool until the next drain, no different than a side gutter being clogged. And at least there’s the possible benefit of unclogging the drain by driving directly over the drain.