05-22-2020, 12:16 PM
(05-22-2020, 11:33 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(05-22-2020, 09:45 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: They don’t help with navigation. With normal numbering, they start somewhere and go up until they reach somewhere else, with odd on one side and even on the other. These ones just zigzag back and forth through the complex in a way that has no relation to how one would travel to reach one of them. By naming the pieces one can have more reasonable directions.
Naming won't help with navigation either, what you need is signage. And given that it's an enclosed area, I don't see navigation as the main point, so much as you need identification.
Again, I'm not saying that it couldn't be better, just that I don't really see the need for what you are discussing.
I have an unnatural hatred for bad numbering systems. It would have only taken 5-10 minutes on a multi-million dollar project to come up with good design, but they couldn't be bothered. All it would take really would be to start counting at the entrance to the site, rather than an arbitrary point in the top left corner. And, more annoyingly, this is the sort of thing that can more or less be expected to never, ever, be fixed, because once they're sold, it's pretty a massive inconvenience to disrupt everybody like that.
I would have also preferred real street names in the development, I'm not sure why they could do that at Victoria Commons, but not here.
In the grand scheme its not a big deal, but a buildup of minor annoyances does stack together. It's more annoying that it would have taken pretty much nothing to do this right, but they couldn't be bothered, even though they're making millions off of this. I guess that's really what bugs me.