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"Cul-de-sacs are effectively a rich person's solution to "Main Street is too fast and dangerous" Good grief... not true. Suburban subdivisions use these, as w
by SirFatty 1y ago
"Cul-de-sacs are effectively a rich person's solution to "Main Street is too fast and dangerous"
Good grief... not true. Suburban subdivisions use these, as well as curved roads as pushback against the grid system of city planning.
- neutronicus 1y agoI think cul-de-sacs are pretty obviously about preventing through traffic...
- alistairSH 1y agoAnd why do they use them in the suburbs? And why do people express disdain for interconnected roads? Because nobody wants hundreds of cars going 40mph+ buzzing past their house every day. And instead of taking the time/money to fix the root cause, people who can afford to do so build culdesac neighborhoods. Edit - and to be clear, I don't blame any individuals for making that choice. We're kind of stuck with what we have for now - any change/progress will be slow and incremental. None of which means we shouldn't design better/safer neighborhoods/roads.
- QuercusMax 1y ago...and why did they want to push back against the grid system? Because "the wrong" kind of people might wander through your neighborhood, so you better make it confusing and difficult!