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Ghost Lanes: Angled “Scarchitecture” Reveals Historic Urban Roads and Railways (99percentinvisible.org)
2 points by Kaibeezy on Sept 28, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Recent spam post here on railroad track gauges set me off looking for the US city where a lazy surveyor cut some blocks in half diagonally, resulting in permanent hypotenuse streets. Thought it was Charleston Or Savannah, but I can find no evidence. Apocryphal?




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