Why are our streets so wide if they predate cars? |
April 26th, 2012 |
| history, transit |
My residential street is wide enough for cars to drive down it even
when there are cars parked on both sides. This would make sense if
the neighborhood had been planned around the car, but the house is
from around 1895 and the street is even older. Why was it made so
wide?
(One possiblity is that the street was narrower but it was widened at some point. But I don't think historic maps are accurate enough to indicate street width.)
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