FELLAS, let's have a quick look at the hierarchy of roads in Japan (classifications are improvised, not official)
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Class E is the narrowest road you can fit cars on, may be one-way or off-limits to non-local trafficpic.twitter.com/sXf7VC2qX4
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Finally Class F, for roads which cannot fit cars on them, but can still fit motorbikes, scooters, etcpic.twitter.com/WqvYQB4YGj
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Here's an example of a narrow country road from UK--I used to live near here.pic.twitter.com/HXQsBsoMKD
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What I believe to be the narrowest street in Northampton, MA--still nearly twice as wide as the one from UK in prev tweetpic.twitter.com/m3DdMP7Org
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One of the narrowest streets in Boston--this one is from North End, clearly off-limits to cars (although it doesn't look much narrower than Class E; if not for the poles a car might fit here)pic.twitter.com/8zYT8YuPBr
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best road class imo
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I don't know the term (they look kinda like woonerfs) but yes I fuccs w it
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a chicane is the deliberate narrowing/curving of the vehicular path to reduce speeds, turning wider car-centric streets into woonerf complete streets
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The street in front of our townhouse (next to an olde timey candy store where kids and olds gather) is like this. Challenge in Japan is motorist speed around blind corners.
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