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Re:City street orientations around the world by Zaskoda on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:02PM (#17525211)
I live in Seattle. There's a famous story about how we ended up with half of our streets running along one grid that was N,S,E,W and another grid that was aligned with the water front. As they built the city, these two patterns merged to create a total fuster cluck.

I am extremely confident that the graph for Seattle is incorrect.

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Re:City street orientations around the world by imaoreo on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:11PM (#17526276)
Washington too, a good chunk of our streets are diagonal.
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