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I just moved here, so it's pretty unorganized to me. If your not familar with Houston than it can be pretty complicated.
Well that can go for any major city usa or even world. But it won't take long to get use to the gridded system of inner Houston. But Houston doesn't have jack on some of the other cities. DC, Boston, and Atlanta are much more confusing because they do not follow a direct system. Especially Atlanta and Boston.
Well that can go for any major city usa or even world. But it won't take long to get use to the gridded system of inner Houston. But Houston doesn't have jack on some of the other cities. DC, Boston, and Atlanta are much more confusing because they do not follow a direct system. Especially Atlanta and Boston.
Anyone would tell you that Houston has a confusing street system. Random stop signs in the middle of the street, dead ends without warnings, two way streets turning into one way streets, narrow streets, streets turning into highways,etc. I'm not the only one who thinks Houston has a confusing street system.
Some cities have such an organized street-grid that it actually becomes confusing. One example is Minneapolis. They have a 3rd Street E, 3rd Street W, 3rd Street S, and a 3rd Street N. If it was just 3rd, I could handle it but it seems that all the streets there are like that. Everytime I have gone there, I became lost.
So true. This is the case in New Orleans. There is a huge street grid that covers almost all of the city, but the grid follows the curvature of the Mississippi River, so when you look at a map of the entire city, most of the grid forms a giant "S". Then as you get farther away from the river, the blocks begin to get narrower, until finally some vertical streets on the grid meet one another, forming extremely awkward acute angles in many cases. It is extremely easy to get turned around in New Orleans. In uptown you can follow the same street for its entire length, and start out going south, then gradually turning west, then gradually ending up going north. Then it doesn't help that locals do not give directions in terms of North/South, but in terms of upriver and downriver. You could be going upriver, and going south at the same time because of the Mississippi River curves.
Anyone would tell you that Houston has a confusing street system. Random stop signs in the middle of the street, dead ends without warnings, two way streets turning into one way streets, narrow streets, streets turning into highways,etc. I'm not the only one who thinks Houston has a confusing street system.
You are describing every place in America. Random stop signs, dead ends w/o warning, two way streets turning into one way streets, narrow streets, all that you just said is nothing different than what you will find in every other city in the country. But look at these maps.
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Boston
Atlanta
Washington DC
Houston
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Houston is a breeze compared to these cities. Especially compared to Atlanta and Boston.
New York was also a mess but they tore it down a few times and go it straightened out. Philadelphia was planned from the start, as were all subsequent cities, afaik. (Although perhaps not all planned well!)
You are describing every place in America. Random stop signs, dead ends w/o warning, two way streets turning into one way streets, narrow streets, all that you just said is nothing different than what you will find in every other city in the country. But look at these maps.
All images from imageshack.
Boston
Atlanta
Washington DC
Houston
Houston is a breeze compared to these cities. Especially compared to Atlanta and Boston.
On the Houston map, you can clearly see that the streets are organized in little squares. This even includes the highways surrounding the city.
For the maps of Boston, Washington, and Atlanta, there isn't a single part of the city from these maps that follows that pattern.
Ok thats fine, but can i just have my opinion?? You people just don't give it a rest. The streets are unorganized to me.
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