>>I found a lot of unnecessary driving was caused by the roads being in a rectangular grid, with no hypotenuses if you wanted to go from corner to diag. opposite corner.
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>You Brits do have some fancy talk! Here we would call them diagonal streets (if we had them). LOL

Ah, but how do you know WHAT they would have been called - if you'd had them?

I used the word hypotenuse to illustrate the distance saving, from Pythagorus,if they existed.

Practically EVERYTHING to do with transport is different between our countries:

Off-ramp - exit
on-ramp - slip road
intersection - junction
median - central reserve
shoulder - hard shoulder (to cry on! :-)
pavement - road surface
sidewalk - pavement
krrrrrrrrb - kerb :-)

et al