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My favourite part of suburbs is the grid of street maximally designed to make driving over them less efficient than avoiding them. Intuitively one would think
by acveilleux 12y ago
My favourite part of suburbs is the grid of street maximally designed to make driving over them less efficient than avoiding them.
Intuitively one would think this decreases traffic but instead it turns the neighbourhood into a kind of watershed where all traffic quickly converges to the same few progressively broader street.
The harder the grid planner tried to inhibit through-traffic, the worse the effect.
- jkimmel 12y agoI live in downtown Orlando, FL. We have a perfect (pathetic) example of this phenomenon. Most of the older buildings in the downtown core rest along brickpave streets that are awful to drive on. Horrible for the suspension, tires, the works. I believe the insistence on keeping them is an attempt to limit through traffic from a nearby East/West interchange with the notorious Interstate-4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_4#Orlando_area http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_4#Orlando_area). Through traffic is still a huge issue, and in addition, the poor brickpave road is constantly riddled with pot holes from the heavy trucks and sheer number of vehicles that detour through. I can't imagine what the maintenance must cost relative to regular asphalt.
- BrainInAJar 12y agoit also makes them much more dangerous, because corners & de-normalizing seeing people walking on/near the streets