• Atlusb@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I mean don’t the Americans have a lot of really long streets all full of housing? Also note the one closed permanently being off the line.

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      2 days ago

      None I’m aware of. Certainly not in Chicago, lived there a couple of years. There’s a half-mile straight run of houses in my neighborhood back home, but that’s unusual and only because it was originally an airstrip.

      A long, straight road like that is going to be zoned commercial, no houses at all. Flip that around and a Hobby Lobby can’t be in a residential zone.