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The kinda shit I do in cities skylines when I get bored
Idk why, but this is oddly satisfying to me.
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
Less intersections where cars can crash into pedestrians or other vehicles
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.
Where I’m from cities like Boston are the norm. When I was in a grid city for the first time, I immediately got lost on the roads because everything just looks the same.
On the other hand, Americans seem to have a more intuitive sense of the cardinal directions than Europeans do from my experience. Which makes sense if you’re used to roads aligned with them.
I am familiar with Boston, and the 2 times I have driven in nyc it was SIGNIFICANTLY easier to navigate than Boston lol. NYC was at least partially thought out, Boston is what you get when your road planner is a 3 year old toddler who threw a hand full of spaghetti on a map and said theres your streets LOL. Possibly the most annoying city I have had the misfortune of navigating lol.
Yeah, Boston is chaos and it is super easy to get lost. And you’ll have two roads converging and splitting and you gotta just hope you’re in the right place!
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.There weren’t computers when NYC’s grid was laid out either.
Well, there were. But back then computers had hair and nails.
Mmm, hot computers. Giggity.
Lol get fucking rotated
They probably did it so they could squeeze one more house in when building the track.
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.
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)
I think that area was built when nothing else was there, without the developer thinking too hard about its orientation.
As time went on, new development started nearby, oriented to a different geographic element, like a shoreline, or a river, etc. eventually that development met the old development, and they were lined up differently, and the municipality stuck with the new grid system orientation and just built around the old one.
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.
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.
Is this the most efficient way to store 17 houses?
Waffle.
So much more room for delicious maple syrup.
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.
It’s called being optimal sweaty.
This is what I immediately thought of. I actually thought it was an AI construction, as a joke.
That’s having a thin layer of liquid perspiration that’s constantly boiling off and evaporating
Sweety.
Optional sweaty is the perfect amount of perspiration to have upon one’s person.
The misuse of the word is intentional and part of the joke. An artifact from reddit.
*Optimal
Optional sweater is when you choose to perspire
*sweaty
Opinionated sweater is when somebody offers to refund the sweater they gave you as a gift
*sweaty
Optional Sweater is when you have the exact correct sweater for the occasion
Optimal. Optical sweaty is the choice of whether or not one would like to be perspiring.
Optional. Optical sweaty is when you are so sad that your eyes start to vacuum tears.
Optimus. Optical sweaty is when you are more than meets the eye.
If anything a perfect grid would be mildly infuriating, it’s more interesting this way
Reminds me of this place:
(I remember just walking to school and it felt weird walking on a “slanted” street lol)
