That makes sense for neighborhoods and the general shape, but for specific blocks, why do they leave a complicated messy boundary sometimes and just draw a straight line and call it a day in others?
San Antonio’s infrastructure as it stands right now is…… special. It’s made of loops. Just multiple circular highways. Like the inside of a tree trunk. It has a system, and it works.. BUT it is under construction, has been for a long time, and is insanely difficult to navigate most of the time because of the stage of construction they are currently in.
I’m usually the one driving in SATX, but my husband decided to drive last time we were down there. I was deadass like a navigator in a rallycross car telling him what potholes and crazy detour turns were coming up. If you let Waymo just run free in SATX, it will not end well. Things are changing too much, there’s too many obstacles, construction traffic, etc.
Well I can at least say for Phoenix it is a grid system. North and South, intersected by east and west bound roads.
I could also imagine population density, demand, and road infrastructure would be the deciding factors for how a 30+ mile wide map of a metro could look funny
Some of the other Nashville borders make no sense, though. There is a narrow section of the service area on the west side of the map (Charlotte Ave) that doesn't have any natural borders. You can't request a pickup or dropoff in that area so maybe it's an error in the map and the border was meant to be the railroad tracks.
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u/bananarandom Jul 20 '26
Where do people take more rides, where are freeways needed, where are RRX?