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If I were a city planner or a developer...
I'd make a city with the following street layout:
- streets run east-west and have the following names: Sain Street, Kent Street, Florina Street, Wil Street, Dorcas Street, Serra Street, Erk Street, etc.
- avenues run north-south and have the following names: Seth Avenue, Franz Avenue, Gilliam Avenue, Vanessa Avenue, Moulder Avenue, Ross Avenue, Garcia Avenue, etc.
- boulevards run diagonally. There are three NW-SE boulevards, named Lyn Boulevard, Eliwood Boulevard, and Hector Boulevard. There are two SW-NE boulevards, named Eirika Boulevard and Ephraim Boulevard.
If I were developing residential communities I'd be sure to use the following street names:
- Green Hill Place
- Marble Way
- Spring Yard Terrace
- Labyrinth Drive
- Star Light Road
- Scrap Brain Court
Post your silly ideas (geeky or otherwise) here.
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Lay out the city on a grid, and arrange it like Tetris. "This L-block can be a residential area, this square block would make a nice park..."
No highways at all.
I always thought it would be interesting to replace the numbered streets with something more memorable. Instead of First Avenue, Second Avenue, etc., have something like January Avenue, February Avenue, March Avenue, and so on. The problem with this, though, is that unlike numbers, you would have a limited number of available street names.
I always wanted to do one-way streets with matching names: Simon Avenue/Garfunkel Avenue, Hoefler Street/Frere-Jones Avenue, Marshall Avenue/Fields Street, or something like that.
Finally: A street that dead ends in less than a block, proudly bearing the name "Really Long Road".
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Sorry, CA, but I have to agree with this. I hate highway driving.
I'm fine with expressways, but I don't like certain things about them:
* complicated interchanges, such as combined exits or left exits
* what I call "lane exchange" exits/onramps (i.e. there's that extra lane created by an exit that almost immediately gets sucked up by the onramp)
The only problems with highway driving is merging and traffic jams, what the hell are you guys getting your panties in a bunch about?
I hate getting lost on backroads more.
Would be nice to make sure that the expressways (i.e. controlled-access highways, or what I think you mean by "highways") are away from the city center. It would be nice if you could give people a park-and-ride station at the outskirts of the city, and have public transportation to the city center.
This is such a common problem that there's a technical term for it: weaving. Weaving is one of the inherent flaws of the basic cloverleaf, which is why that design has long been considered deprecated.
Left exits are considered deprecated as well, because, as you've observed, they go against a driver's normal expectation that exits in the US are on the right-hand side.
Modern highway design is actually pretty good, honestly; usually when you see poorly-designed highways it's stuff that was built 50 years ago before we knew these things were problematic.
If I was a city planner,
I would have an elevated motorway running through the middle of the city but then I would also a subway system in place as well so people could get from one side to the other.
^^ YOU'RE DEPRECATED lolololol
And yeah, the cloverleaf sucks. Turning 270 degrees when I could just turn 90 degrees to the left?
Does the saved stoplight maintenance and electricity justify building all that extra length of road and ramp supports?
Merging and traffic jams.
Okay, fine, one single highway to connect it to the rest of our godforsaken public highway system. I would still add in a great emphasis on public transport, such as subways and trams.
Probably not. Generally if a cloverleaf is used it's not because of cost, but because it allows traffic on both roads to flow freely, without having signal-controlled intersections like a basic diamond interchange.
At least, that was the thinking 50 years ago, when cloverleafs were still being built. Nowadays it's actually fairly common to see older cloverleafs being replaced with signal-controlled diamond or parclo interchanges--doing so does reduce the capacity of the interchange, but usually greatly improves safety because the weaving is eliminated.