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Manayunk in Philadelphia has many streets that only fit 1 car but are 2 way streets. Hopefully there is a spot to pull into if a car is coming the opposite way-otherwise you have to back up out of the street to let the car pass (or force the other car to back down-lol)
There are some really tight streets in Los Angeles in some of the hills where you can only see about 20 feet in one direction before the road bends numerous times before reaching the top and the roads at times are so narrow that you have to pull into a driveway to allow a car to get through! This is particularly poor in the Hollywood Hills.
There are very narrow roads all over rural West Virginia -- so narrow that when encountering oncoming traffic, one has to pull over to the shoulder to let them pass.
There are many roads like this in Virginia also. I lived on a gravel one lane road In the northern portion of the state where one had to pull over to let oncoming traffic through.
There are defintiely narrow roads in the USA. Driving down south once I decided to take the "scenic route" and traveled up something called the Blue Ridge Parkway in NC and VA.
It was w/o doubt the most hair-raising white-knuckled will-I-die-or-will-I-live drive I have ever had. The scenery is beautiful, but the road is incredibly narrow, windy, has no shoulders, and goes through narrow and dark tunnels in the mountains. To make this experience even better, there was a heavy fog as night fell. And mile to go before I could find a turnoff leading back down to the Interstate.
The Blude Ridge Parkway was builit, I understand, as a Depression era project. I guess they were trying to keep the number of hungry down by ensuring that they drove off the side of a mountain!
I've driven the Blueridge Parkway a few times, and it is by no means a narrow road in the sense as the OP described, which is common in the UK and much of Europe. It is pretty much standard width everywhere (though there are not shoulders everywhere) and wide enough for two cars to pass each other without one of them having to drive off the road.
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