It's interesting how the downtown (the older section, I presume) is canted on an angle (northwest to southeast?) and the outlying areas, outside the ring of interstates, are on a more conventional north-south grid.
That is interesting. I had noticed but never really thought about it before. Maybe the first people to build there just said "okay let's put a street here" and other streets were built around that, then later the surveyors came in figured out the north south east west grid.
Looks almost like an artist's concept from that high up. :)
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DeleteIt's interesting how the downtown (the older section, I presume) is canted on an angle (northwest to southeast?) and the outlying areas, outside the ring of interstates, are on a more conventional north-south grid.
ReplyDeleteArtifact of railroad days, maybe?
That is interesting. I had noticed but never really thought about it before. Maybe the first people to build there just said "okay let's put a street here" and other streets were built around that, then later the surveyors came in figured out the north south east west grid.
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