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It is a significant factor in designing urban street networks. However, existing studies do not clarify how RDLS affects the distribution of urban street networks. We used a Python package named OSMnx to extract the street networks of different cities in China. The street complexity metrics information (i.e., street grain, connectedness, circuity, and street network orientation entropy) were obtained and analyzed statistically. The results indicate that street network exhibits more complexity in regions with high RDLS. Further analysis of the correlation between RDLS and street network complexity metrics indicates that RDLS presents the highest correlation with street network circuity; that is, when RDLS is higher, the routes of an urban street network is more tortuous, and the additional travel costs for urban residents is higher. 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