• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    There was a time when taxi drivers knew all the streets of their city by heart.

    And I’m not talking about silly US style names like 1st street and 2nd avenue here.

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        3 months ago

        What? Properly thought out city grids are amazing. Take an address 1234 5th street sw. The address is in the southwest quadrant, five streets west and twelve avenues south from city center. It isn’t perfect but it’s way easier than the town I moved to where George street turns into Jefferson and suddenly George street reappears as a completely different road.

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        3 months ago

        Could be worse. In the southern US, lots of streets are named “Lee” or “Jackson”. Sometimes, multiples of each in the same town. I’d take “intersection of 13rd and 11st” any day over that.

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      3 months ago

      That time is right now, the taxis are London’s black cabs, and the drivers call it “the knowledge”