Suburb full of one-way streets

[NE2]

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.897866,-93.409967&spn=0.012327,0.028346&gl=us&t=m&z=16
Looks like a fun place to get lost. Is there anywhere else like this?

[Dr Frankenstein]

Someone tried really hard to discourage through traffic, I guess.

[NE2]

Someone tried really hard to discourage through traffic, I guess.

If they wanted to do that they wouldn't have multi-lane roads without stops, grade separated from pathways. This is an expansion of the roundabout idea where you want to keep traffic flowing.

[Alps]

Here's a section of Bloomfield, NJ that succumbed: http://goo.gl/maps/7YseZ

[getemngo]

Looks like a fun place to get lost. Is there anywhere else like this?

I really like the drive-on-the-left divided road that results.

[sammi]

My ex-boyfriend's city has the downtown area where he lives composed almost entirely of one-way streets. I hear they're converting some of them to two-way now, but the project is stalled for some reason. I've never been to the suburbs, so I wouldn't know.

EDIT: At the risk of being called out as off-topic , I want to clarify. Whether or not Hamilton counts as a suburb of Toronto, I do not know.

[hotdogPi]

This part of Boston, including MA 2.

http://goo.gl/maps/myTV9

[NE2]

This part of Boston, including MA 2.

http://goo.gl/maps/myTV9

Suburbs in name only don't count.

[hotdogPi]

This part of Boston, including MA 2.

http://goo.gl/maps/myTV9

Suburbs in name only don't count.

Didn't realize this thread was about suburbs only. Sorry.

[NE2]

This part of Boston, including MA 2.

http://goo.gl/maps/myTV9

Suburbs in name only don't count.

Didn't realize this thread was about suburbs only. Sorry.

Most large cities are full of one-way streets. Salt Lake City is a rare outlier (thanks, Joseph Smith!).

[Alex4897]

Missing your turn would suck there.

[Jardine]

Might be a germ of an idea for a Stephen King horror novel here.

All the streets are one way . . .


. . . .dead ends.

[Alps]

Might be a germ of an idea for a Stephen King horror novel here.

All the streets are one way . . .


. . . .dead ends.

I think I will be kept awake tonight just thanks to this one post. One of my deepest-rooted fears.

[Brandon]

This part of Boston, including MA 2.

http://goo.gl/maps/myTV9

Suburbs in name only don't count.

Didn't realize this thread was about suburbs only. Sorry.

Most large cities are full of one-way streets. Salt Lake City is a rare outlier (thanks, Joseph Smith!).

I think you mean Brigham Young.  Joseph Smith was long dead before the trek to the Salt Lake area.

[NE2]

I think you mean Brigham Young.  Joseph Smith was long dead before the trek to the Salt Lake area.

Actually it was Joseph Smith, but that's just luck on my part. Mormon cities generally followed this plan: http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/smith.htm

In 1832 Smith visited Independence again to meet with some 300 of his followers. The following June Smith sent from Kirtland a plat of the City of Zion that was to be located near Independence. That drawing included written specifications for the city and was accompanied by a letter with a further explanation of the design. The notes on the drawing specified that all streets were to [sic] 132 feet wide.

[cpzilliacus]

An unincorporated and close-in suburb of Baltimore [City], Maryland - Dundalk, Baltimore County, Maryland has many narrow one-way streets (I don't think any of them end in dead-ends).

[1995hoo]

In some older suburbs I'd be happier if they had more one-way streets. I can think of a number of two-way streets that are busy enough to have traffic lights yet do not have either dedicated left-turn lanes (TWLTL or otherwise) or green arrow signals, meaning someone turning left holds up the traffic big-time. It's often easier just to go around the block instead, of course, but for some reason this idea doesn't occur to people.

I remember back in 2001 prior to buying the house I live in now I had looked at another house that was on a one-way loop street about halfway around the loop. One major reason for not considering that house was that I felt I'd get very tired of going around that loop every time I went in or out. (See map here: http://goo.gl/maps/T0qUS  The house for sale was on Norham Drive roughly where the second arrow is, the one pointing to the map-viewer's right.) There were other factors that made me rule that place out, but the one-way street definitely factored into the decision too.

[KEVIN_224]

My ex-boyfriend's city has the downtown area where he lives composed almost entirely of one-way streets. I hear they're converting some of them to two-way now, but the project is stalled for some reason. I've never been to the suburbs, so I wouldn't know.

EDIT: At the risk of being called out as off-topic , I want to clarify. Whether or not Hamilton counts as a suburb of Toronto, I do not know.

It's 38 mi/61 km from Toronto, if you drew a straight line. I've never been there, just that I know it's part of the "Golden Triangle".

[sammi]

Whether or not Hamilton counts as a suburb of Toronto, I do not know.

It's 38 mi/61 km from Toronto, if you drew a straight line. I've never been there, just that I know it's part of the "Golden Triangle Horseshoe".

But I don't know whether or not the entire area still counts as the suburbs of Toronto. I know my city does.

[KEVIN_224]

Horseshoe? Ugh! You're right! Told ya I've never been in that region! 

[hotdogPi]

Camden, NJ

[Zeffy]

Camden's a suburb now? I feel like many cities are full of one-way streets - I've seen plenty in Trenton for example.

[NE2]

What I was really looking for is typical suburban development where the collectors and arterials are one-way. Not a typical street grid or slight modification with one-way streets.

The new town of Redditch, England has a bit of this: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.307232,-1.939838&spn=0.01064,0.028346&t=m&z=16
Though the Redditch Ringway is really almost a freeway in US terms.

[vtk]

Camden's a suburb now?

I recently read that all of NJ is a suburb.

[Alps]

Camden's a suburb now?

I recently read that all of NJ is a suburb.

That's cute. I recently read all of Ohio sucks. But I've been there, so I know it's just a particular area within Columbus.