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

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Phoenix IMO.

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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  • tomselleck@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      That’s the best brief description.

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  • disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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• unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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• birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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

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• lichengeese@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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