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The Great Cul-De-Sac Problem And How To Alleviate It.
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#22Some problems with this argument: For overhead maps 1-4, couldn't you just simply walk over on foot?
no, because people usually fence in their yards, from one, or both sides.
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#23I've lived on a dead-end street (but not a cul-de-sac), and I've lived on a regular traffic street. I definitely preferred the dead-end with the lack of traffic and noise, and ability for kids to play in the street without fear of a car going 50 down it. And people did socialize with neighbors on the dead-end street (although maybe not as much as the regular street).
I've never lived in a cul-de-sac (which btw is french for a dead-end street), but spent my childhood playing outside all the same. Narrow, one-way streets, with plenty of speed bumps. I walked to school. Currently I reside downtown, overlooking rails (the trains go quite slowly and make a noise far more agreeable than that of cars). There's a market under the rails, fruit vegtables and other foodstuffs at daytime, sm…
I will never understand the attraction of suburbs
Low taxes. Lower cost of living. Privacy of a detached house. The lack of 'city' noise. Letting my kids play in the yard, on sidewalks. Letting my kids tear around the cul-de-sac.
I've lived in the country, I've lived in the city, I've lived in the 'burbs. I prefer the latter, now.
Maybe it's just me. I live in a smaller town, my commute is a five minute drive. YMMV.
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#24Can anyone else see the article? I'm getting redirected to http://127.0.0.1/2011/10/the-great-cul-de-sac-problem-and-ho...
He's probably redirected it so he doesn't crash under the load.
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#25Some problems with this argument: For overhead maps 1-4, couldn't you just simply walk over on foot?
It depends. There may be fences and other obstacles in the way and it may involve trespassing. I sometimes find pedestrian-friendly paths cut through and sometimes not.
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#26He fails to understand the main reason that home developers want to build neighborhoods with lots of cul-de-sacs: Homes on cul-de-sacs sell for more money. The more of these you can squeeze into a given neighborhood, the more money you'll make off the development.
I very much doubt it is the main reason.
I'll bet most developers do it for the money, no?
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#27He fails to understand the main reason that home developers want to build neighborhoods with lots of cul-de-sacs: Homes on cul-de-sacs sell for more money. The more of these you can squeeze into a given neighborhood, the more money you'll make off the development.
>Homes on cul-de-sacs sell for more money. //
Presumably if the market is working properly this means that more people want to buy these homes and/or value these homes more highly than others. That is, people want to live on cul-de-sacs.
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#28www.chrisnorstrom.com is redirecting to 127.0.0. ... why?
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#29He fails to understand the main reason that home developers want to build neighborhoods with lots of cul-de-sacs: Homes on cul-de-sacs sell for more money. The more of these you can squeeze into a given neighborhood, the more money you'll make off the development.
Also it uses less road, which means more space for homes.
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#30www.chrisnorstrom.com is redirecting to 127.0.0. ... why?
As stated somewhere else in this thread, I assume he is trying to scale his app due to higher loads and probably forgot to change some config items.