Market St., San Francisco, 1906

[Goshute]

This vid is kind of going viral in the US. Gotta love the absence of traffic management. (I can't stand the music, feel free to mute it.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oubsaFBUcTc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Notice the offset roundabout at the end, and how the camera view rides it 180º.

[HansV]

Gotta love the absence of traffic management.

Amazing - it would be unthinkable nowadays...

[Leif]

Amazing - it would be unthinkable nowadays...

Exactly. There were unaccompanied women strolling around loose on the streets everywhere!

[HansV]

Do you mean they were loose women?

[viking33]

This vid is kind of going viral in the US. Gotta love the absence of traffic management.

Update the cars a bit and it could be Broadway & 42nd Street, NYC, today.
( on second thought, NO... too many pedestrians are making it across the street without being run over )

[Bigaldoc]

I haven't even finished watching the whole thing, but I'm LMAO about all the "lane changers" both powered and horse driven! Not much has changed in a hundred years!

[HansV]

But the haphazard way the streetcars cross each other wouldn't be possible now...

[westerneagle]

Then . . . a few year later. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqcz_tllnwM

[HansV]

The bicyclists are new...

[PaulB]

Then . . . a few year later. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqcz_tllnwM

Who was that Caped Crusader on the bike?

[Goshute]

Who was that Caped Crusader on the bike?

And why was he dragging something that looks for all the world like Bolas.

[westerneagle]

Then . . . a few year later. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqcz_tllnwM

Who was that Caped Crusader on the bike?

If you watched to the end, he comes in again at about 5 min or so. . . .still dragging the bola's. . . .