You must log in or # to comment.
Someone followed true north, and someone followed magnetic?
It’s a Moiré!
The kinda shit I do in cities skylines when I get bored
Or cities skylines 2 because the grid system is shit and breaks if you sneezed in the last decade.
Is it still shit?
I was hoping it was going to do a No Man’s Sky.
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
I wish, just check Atlanta - winding stroads as far as the eye can see
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.
As someone who drives through Boston often: it’s the worst-planned city I’ve ever seen. I am fairly convinced that the underground tunnel system is actually creating an eldritch sigil of chaos (a la Good Omens), and it is not uncommon to encounter a seven-way intersection, where two of those ways are train lines, but aren’t marked, so at night, you can accidentally find yourself on train tracks. It’s like if someone bargained with the Fey to make a city.
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.
Lol get fucking rotated
How about a grid system that changes direction at every single avenue?
Still a better system than Boston, having navigated both MANY times. To call Boston’s streets a “system” is an insult to the very concept of order.
Speaking as someone who has been living in towns with rivers for most of my life:
This is the way.
My experience clearly says that you will loose orientation and get confused the moment you go to a district that is not alligned with the riverbank.
Looks like everyone started a new road perpendicular to the shore line, and the mess occurred when the roads got long enough to meet.
No they’re were designed that way. The names remain the same no matter how many times they turn. The street i live on starts off going west, then south, then south west and back to west again on the other side of town.
Is this the most efficient way to store 17 houses?
So much more room for delicious maple syrup.
Waffle.
They probably did it so they could squeeze one more house in when building the track.
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.
Reminds me of this place:
(I remember just walking to school and it felt weird walking on a “slanted” street lol)
Old train tracks?
Sort of… its a subway… built over ground… right over the street… (colored lines are the subway)
Omg this is so nostalgic… just looking at the streetviews…
This was basically what “my world” looked like when my family first immigrated to the US…
At some point that was probably above ground. The reason many cities have these section not aligned is because they were aligned to the train tracks, not to a compass.
So you’re saying that they were on the ground, but then they took it apart and built the little “bridge” thing so now it’s above the street?
Where is this?
Edit: Found it! Jacksonville Beach, FL
30.280765 N 81.393002 W
Reverse image search has mixed results… A few say Florida, but the top one says Wyoming. I’d guess the one that says Jacksonville, Florida is most likely.
See my edit, it’s Jacksonville Beach FL
