So was Boston. This type of comment is idiotic when it comes to cars vs other forms of transport. Especially talking about a city on the East Coast where they utilize public transport more then anything else.

planned out

The New York Street grid was completed by a commission consisting of a C tier Founding Father, a rich landlord, and a surveyor who seemed to hate New York City so much that he kept his time spent there at a minimum.

They were given 4 years and pretty much unprecendented power, yet procrastinated until the very end and ended up copying a map someone else made 10 years before.

The three man Commission was formed in 1807 and a deadline of 4 years to deliver a plan. In return, they were given exclusive authoritative powers, they didn’t need to consult existing landowners or produce interim reports of any kind - any plan they came up with, the City would implement.

Even so, the three men didn’t live close to one another and hated commuting in, so didn’t seem to do much of anything for three years. There is scant evidence of anything such as meeting minutes.

The Plan they did finally produce made very little sense with even the slightest of scrutiny. The Avenues are not spaced at regular intervals, fifteen streets are randomly wider, there is nearly no green space at all (Central Park didn’t exist yet), and the grid pattern violates any and all natural features of Manhattan.

The official reason this Plan was chosen was because it “attended with the least convenience.” The more likely reason is because they copied Casimir Goerck’s grid produced for the Common Ground (much of what would become Central Park). If you overlay Goerck’s grid, you will see that it is a perfect match for the final Plan, irregularly spaced avenues and streets and all.

The traffic is shit. The roads are easy.

Oof, no. It’s best in the US maybe.

Bro, I was on the green 4 mother ago. Best in the world 🤣

You need to travel lololol.