What are the worst ever city street layouts? (U.S. perspective) Charlottesville VA and Lexington KY

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Phoenix IMO.

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I understand Phoenix is not great for locals. It is great from a truck driver perspective. In Phoenix I always knew exactly where I was in relation to the highway. I could read a Phoenix address and understand it. I want to avoid the entire state because of a young woman named Renee and also it is lowkey horrible

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  • disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yeah I actually think they did a really bad job out west. in earlier city development, they brought over the experience of European city design. as they started expanding out, nobody knew what they were doing, but they still had to design cities around the geography. but once you get past the mountains to the flats, where there’s no there’s nothing constraining your design but common sense…you see the results of American exceptionalism.

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  • tomselleck@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I joke that driving around Surprise is like the twilight zone since every intersection looks so similar.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s the best brief description.

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• birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most of Houston is parking spots. Unwalkable and unbicycleable, little greenery. Gets scorching hot.

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sorry I forgot Houston, dfw, … What is going on down there

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• unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lexington is long notorious for how the street names change despite that you’re still on the same street. I will look that up though, not everyone there is insane

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• just2look@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can’t weigh in on a lot of the cities people have mentioned. I will say the Charlottesville is impressively terrible for making it miserable to drive, bike, walk, or use public transit. You would think they would get at least one mode of transportation to be ok, but nope.

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Charlottesville struck me back in the day for a variety of stupid. I was briefly in charge of the snack stand at a fully bullshit private swim club

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m putting in a vote for Pittsburgh!

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  • watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can’t get there from here

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You maybe have ever met my sibling

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• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Charlottesville mentioned, “the hottest thing to come out of that stinking little town” engaged:

  lackeydie.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    !

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• Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Manhattan south of 14th Street just gave up

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Merced, CA has some of the most fucked up on-ramps to the freeway I have ever seen, as well as incredibly dumb roundabouts and poorly labeled 1-way streets.

  I absolutely hate driving around there. Even just going down to Fresno on 99 sucks ass once you get to Merced because the freeway is split there.

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• lichengeese@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Interested to understand why Lexington is bad. I’ve never seen it, but there was a recent CityNerd episode praising its urban design.

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