I mean, you can organise grids to be more or less stroady, and if you have too much of this going - like you have a medieval street plan - you can get the opposite thing where cars are forced through areas only suited to pedestrians, and everyone has to flatten themselves against building walls to make room.
but the point is that by not organizing it into a grid, drivers aren’t going to cut through a low speed local street, keeping those streets less polluted and safer.
That’s true of a tree style layout, but only that, and those have problems of their own. The example about moving aside for a car going through a narrow European street was something I’ve actually experienced.
actually tho, flowing windy streets and roads are so much better.
I wish, just check Atlanta - winding stroads as far as the eye can see
Less intersections where cars can crash into pedestrians or other vehicles
I mean, you can organise grids to be more or less stroady, and if you have too much of this going - like you have a medieval street plan - you can get the opposite thing where cars are forced through areas only suited to pedestrians, and everyone has to flatten themselves against building walls to make room.
but the point is that by not organizing it into a grid, drivers aren’t going to cut through a low speed local street, keeping those streets less polluted and safer.
That’s true of a tree style layout, but only that, and those have problems of their own. The example about moving aside for a car going through a narrow European street was something I’ve actually experienced.