Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "The Reason Our Streets Switched to Cul-De-Sacs" video.

  1.  @THEHamBot1  You'd be surprised, it can be rather easy to miss a street sign and wind up having to keep driving a couple miles until you hit the next opportunity to turn around. GPS, especially with voice commands, makes it easier, but it's still a much bigger pain in the neck due to the difficulty in figuring out how far you are from your intended turn.
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  2. I suspect in the long run, it will probably be a combination of the two. Here in Seattle, the major streets tend to be roughly 5-10 blocks apart, which would give ample opportunity for cul-de-sac or neighborhoods without through streets without destroying the ability of random citizens to walk or bike about. Having grown up one block off one of the arterials, there was a large amount of traffic that went fast down the narrow street in order to avoid the stop light on the arterial one block over. They'd drive it as if it was an arterial, even though there was barely room for one car between the parked cards
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  3. The Netherlands is also incredibly flat. Which makes bicycles an option. Around here we have steep hills that are sometimes more than 20% grade and even the flatter ones are numerous enough to cause problems. The moral of the story is that you have to consider what kind of landscape you have when making your transportation decisions as what works in one place may make no sense in another.
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  4. Probably not. Having random people coming and going reduces the likelihood of crime as it increases the likelihood that somebody will see that door getting kicked in and increases the ease with which police can randomly cruise down a given street. One of the big things you can do to reduce crime is to increase the likelihood of criminal activities being seen. Dead ends and places which are hard to get to just attract different kinds of crimes.
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  5. IIRC, street addresses in Japan are based upon the age of the building, so two buildings next to each other won't necessarily have sequential addresses.
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  6. You see that kind of mess East of Lake Washington where there were a lot of subdivisions built to house the people displaced from Seattle proper by increasing housing prices. The area is a mess in terms of traffic because there's few options for getting around. The traffic in Seattle is terrible, but there are slightly more options for travel and a lot of the constraints are based upon the topography of the area, rather than artificial constraints. For the most part, the streets themselves are either on a grid or off the grid due to hills and bodies of waters demanding something else.
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  7. LOL, Lake City Center, that's the Oreilly's I use.
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