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OP - I'm a Londoner and I agree with all of this, although I'm surprised you found it cleaner that NYC haha and omg good point about the signs on the ground. Are there hardly any one way streets in the US then? You just always look both ways? (I guess this isn't THAT relevant for Matt but would still make it a little confusing/disorientating. Foggy would probably trip up over it as well). Thanks a million!

*wiggly hand motion* eehhhhhh

(california: one-way streets in the downtown of big cities - there's a lot of one way streets in sacramento and san francisco/berkley - actually, now that i think about it, up in eureka there's a bunch of gross unmanageable one-way streets too? but i think that might be an...older method of urban planning, because i don't see them in newer neighborhoods, it's all two-way streets. damnit, now i'm curious.)

I'm a sighted person and I found all the one-way streets to be confusing. Like, it's already grippy because you have to look for traffic in the opposite direction you normally would because the traffic drives on the opposite side than in NA, but then they throw in random one-way streets and all of a sudden the traffic is coming from the opposite direction you were anticipating (I almost got run over by a lot of bicycles and motorcycles lol)

*trippy

ALSO, I seem to recall finding it difficult to anticipate when traffic lights would change. Like, they did it in a different pattern than I was used to. Not sure if that was a UK thing or just something unique to that particular city, but I can see Matt having trouble with something like that. Like, accidentally stepping out into traffic.

Although I think a lot of the pedestrian traffic lights have the audio signals in the UK now.

Unless I am completely misremembering, most Manhattan streets (east-west roads) are one-way. There's a bigger two-way street every... five or so? Avenues (north-south roads) are always two-way. So one-way streets are not going to be weird.

The complete irregularity of London roads, on the other hand, would probably take time to get used to. Aside from the colonial squiggly bits down near Wall Street, New York -- like most post-colonial American cities -- is very regularly laid out. It's a planned community, you see, rather than a collection of villages that grew together over a millennium or so.

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