In the UK, their prior existence is implied by the Public Health Act 1875 which banned their use in new developments.

BOOK REVIEW: THE END OF THE WORLD IS A CUL DE SAC

Louise Kennedy started writing at the age of forty-seven, and her prose is instilled with a clarity and wisdom born of her own experience. In the United States and other countries, cul-de-sac is often not an exact synonym for dead end and refers to dead ends with a circular end. While all intersection types in general increase the incidence of fatal crashes, four-way intersections, which rarely occur in a network with cul-de-sac or loop streets, increase total and injurious crashes significantly.Increases in pedestrian and bicycle permeability may result in a displacement of local car trips for short-distance destinations [22] and consequently a reduction in neighbourhood vehicle emissions. The use of culs-de-sac reduces the amount of car traffic on residential streets within the subdivision, thus reducing noise, air pollution and the probability of accidents. However, residents on adjacent through roads may resent the potential traffic increase and delay the process. In medicine, the expression is used to refer to the recto-uterine pouch, also known as the Pouch of Douglas, the deepest point of the female peritoneal cavity. Plumbing the depths of intimacy, violence, and redemption, these stories are “dazzling, heartbreaking .

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In New York City, as of 2008, there were 4,659 "dead end" traffic signs, along with 160 "no outlet" signs. While in "Wolf Point" (one of my personal favourites) a father looks after his daughter while his wife is suffering from depression. The increased prevalence of cul-de-sac streets occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, a period of rapid economic and city expansion, when a detached house on a large lot meant an ideal form of habitation. Unwin's applications of the cul-de-sac and the related crescent always included pedestrian paths independent of the road network. Similarly, French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre titled a play about three damned sinners, Huis Clos, translated into English as " No Exit".In New Zealand, dead-end streets are sometimes signposted as "No Exit", but are often not signposted at all. Product or company names, logos, and trademarks referred to on this site belong to their respective owners. In Quebec and Newfoundland, "Cul-de-Sac" is in far more common use, although Quebec is using "Impasse" too.

The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac by Louise Kennedy review

In “Silhouette,” for example, a teenage girl in skimpy shorts and platform heels finds herself caught up in the cruelties of The Troubles, torn between an emerging awareness of her own femininity and loyalty towards the brother she loves. practice of connecting the neighbouring roads and culs-de-sac with public pedestrian or cycle paths. Two other studies, [23] [24] reported in 1990 and 2009 respectively, confirmed the upward trend and determined the premium that cul-de-sac streets command.

They focus very firmly on personal relationships, on the many unspoken transactions that take place daily between parents and children, husbands, wives and lovers, as they try against the odds to get on in the world. The impermeability deficiency of the typical cul-de-sac street can be addressed by applying a modified, improved version of it, mentioned above, that enables pedestrian and bicycle through-movement. While this more permeable version can be applied in new developments easily, modifying existing impermeable cul-de-sac streets is problematic as it encounters property ownership issues. School buses can also have a hard time turning around, which means that children who live in a cul-de-sac must often walk to a bus stop on a main through-road. It was a way to stop sporadic growth of traffic in the suburbs or even within the city where dead end streets stop passage of vehicles.