They probably did it so they could squeeze one more house in when building the track.
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actually 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
Boston looks much easier to navigate though. Much clearer road hierarchy, meaning better flowing traffic, and less traffic near houses and shops.
Disclaimer: above statement is based on the image posted here, not on knowledge on the actual situation.
Welcome to everywhere else in the world that's not a fucking grid lol.
This isnt a computer where traces are made in 90 and 45° angles.
Lol get fucking rotated
There has to be some interesting history here.
A few other examples have been posted, but this is easily the wildest. It's not even the same aspect ratio of grid, or at a normal angle to the rest, or over a very significant area. (And they've still managed to tie it in reasonably well)
To me what's wild about it is that it's completely filled with houses, and the houses seem to all respect the orientation of the nearest street.
You'd think that they'd say "Ok, well in this section we have these two roads coming at a narrow angle, let's just make this a park", or something to make the places where the two grids join a little less ugly.
How about a grid system that changes direction at every single avenue?
Looks like everyone started a new road perpendicular to the shore line, and the mess occurred when the roads got long enough to meet.
I kinda like it. It's just neat enough.
A lot of old city plats follow the exact pattern of that square, so I'd be curious what the sequence of development was.
It's tough to look at, but I bet it's amazing for traffic calming.
Came here to say the same. This design (or accident) forces north/south traffic to use the arterials on either side of the neighbourhood instead of going through the neighbourhood.
Is this the most efficient way to store 17 houses?
Waffle.
So much more room for delicious maple syrup.
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If anything a perfect grid would be mildly infuriating, it's more interesting this way
Indianapolis built the central mile square of streets aligned with magnetic north, but then the rest of downtown aligned with true north. It’s almost aligned, which causes problems at that border.
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Reminds me of this place:
(I remember just walking to school and it felt weird walking on a "slanted" street lol)
Here's another one:
Missoula, MT
Inb4 Hank Green does a video about this.
It's actually a good story, too. I'm on mobile and not really qualified to tell it, however.
It was a golf course. A sex golf course. For ghosts!
Two lawyers got in a pissing contest on developing the land they owned.
My great-grandfather apparently had a story about it. It involved lots of booze, a prostitute, and a horse. Then again most of his stories had the same theme so the truthfulness of the story is up for debate.
Missoula is a bit odd on a few things. I attended Hellgate elementary - yes that's the name of the school.
Downtown Denver:
My favorite is how 15th St just boings off of Colfax (15th ave)
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Where is this?
Edit: Found it! Jacksonville Beach, FL
30.280765 N 81.393002 W
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