Ya it's something like 4 lanes there, all in one direction--bear in mind there's hardly 40,000 people in this town, and yet it's constantly choked by its own traffic!https://twitter.com/shinjiscup/status/1048283232867893249 …
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Far from facilitating traffic, these wide streets make it inevitable by keeping buildings further apart--and the extensive network of one-way streets ensures that cars will have to put in extra driving distance to get anywhere, too
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Random road design question. What if there were a hexagonal street grid in a town? It would be harder for outsiders to navigate, but presumably most people in the town would be local residents or workers...
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...The Y-shaped intersections would be especially safe, because people on one road could see both intersecting roads within a single field of view...
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...you'd also get rid of the endless grid-pattern sightlines that make American towns feel less organic and homey than European or Asian towns...
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...People would probably drive more slowly and carefully too, since they'd have to make at least a slight turn at every intersection.
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Anyway, I don't know of any place where such a street pattern exists, but I think it would have some advantages.
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Palmanova is a hexagonal planned community dating from the Renaissance, but it doesn't have a hexagonal street grid: https://goo.gl/maps/H3n22GhdpcA2 … I think you're right that it would have some advantages--but I'm more fond of organic street networks than planned ones...
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Having a town inside a Renaissance star fort is an epic win to begin with.
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