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minus-squaresangriaferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·21 hours agoHow about a grid system that changes direction at every single avenue?
minus-squareMultiplexer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 hours agoSpeaking 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.
minus-squareNottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 hours agoLooks like everyone started a new road perpendicular to the shore line, and the mess occurred when the roads got long enough to meet.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 hours agoBingo. Allow me to introduce you to the colonial French seigneurial system.
minus-squaresangriaferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 hours agoNo 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.
How about a grid system that changes direction at every single avenue?
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.
Bingo. Allow me to introduce you to the colonial French seigneurial system.
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.