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non-grids can have all of those things as well. American suburban streets are certainly wide enough for street-parking but a lot of them don't allow it for reas
by bobthepanda 4y ago
non-grids can have all of those things as well. American suburban streets are certainly wide enough for street-parking but a lot of them don't allow it for reasons.
America is also a country in which road engineers will spend hundreds of millions of dollars eliminating mere seconds at a single intersection. In that context, a four way stop is "inefficient" or dangerous and as many internal intersections as possible in non-grids are just three way T's.
- bernawil 4y agoGrids have more parking because there's more streets and therefore more curb, it's not a matter of width. Also getting off the arterial road and into the grid neighbourhood looking for parking is more feasible because in a non-grid you have to track back your steps all the distance you traveled back to your destination, while in a grid it's way more likely there's a shorter path back through the grid. > streets are certainly wide enough for street-parking but a lot of them don't allow it for reasons. If I had to guess, because they're hostile to non-residents and they are optimizing for residential property values. Grids with free parking are welcoming to non-residents and optimizing for business revenue.