Look how frequent the streetcars are!
That's pretty crummy urbanism though, streetcars notwithstanding. Is this the 1960s?
The streets are very wide - three lines each way - even though that capacity is apparently not needed. The car lanes are very wide and very straight, making the cars speed from red light to red light. This creates an unpleasant, dangerous space for pedestrians and cyclists. Steal one lane each side from motorists (which they can easily afford) and make a protected bike lane.
Detroit streetcars ended in 1956, so sometime before then. Judging by the cars and the fact that it's a color photo makes me think it can't be too much earlier than that.
see the blue-grey haze? that's car exhaust before emission controls and in time of leaded gasoline
should be a beautiful metropolis by now, but ya know... the cia exists.
Why are the streetcars in the middle of the road?
Shouldn't they be on the sides so people don't have to play frogger to get to them?
How much do you trust drivers street parking to not block the side lane?
You ever see what happens when a car blocks a firetruck?
I'm sure it makes a great dudes rock youtube video but I doubt your grandma wants to routinely ram into cars on her way to the grocery.
The streetcar rails probably predate the dominance of the car. Before cars came along, traffic on most city streets was about 3 MPH, maybe 10 MPH at most. Take a look at the "A Trip Down Market Street" video taken in 1906 SF just before the big earthquake. It looks like chaos but it actually worked fairly well.
Found roughly the same spot today on Google maps You can tell because of St. Paul's cathedral. Looks like most of this area has been taken over by Wayne State University now. There actually is a street car there now, taking up the outside lanes rather than the inside lanes. The Q-line, opened in 2017. It's more or less garbage, but at least it connects downtown to the Amtrak station.
Like shit?
Urbanism is when you have an 8-lane highway running through the city and the more lanes you add the more urbanism it is.
I'm sure Detroit looks orders of magnitudes worse now. I'm sure if you could get it down to one city highway it'd be great for the city, this is still fucking garbage
