So when the bulldozer comes in to "refine the road network", and you start demolishing people's neighborhoods to optimize the paths... what then? Everyone know

So when the bulldozer comes in to "refine the road network", and you start demolishing people's neighborhoods to optimize the paths... what then? Everyone knows how to optimize a city. The problem is that the people don't want change. ---------- The benefit of a grid-network, is that you _DONT_ know where people will go. You lay down the grid in the 1800s, and then no matter where the major commerce centers grow 100 or 200 years in the future, the grid network can largely accommodate it. This slime-mold model requires the refinement phase, which is very high cost and destructive (buying out entire neighborhoods and displacing them to make room for the bigger road arteries). Its something that an individual slime mold can make decisions for itself, but its not something thats easy to do in today's society (especially if your individuals in the society are full of NIMBY / anti-gentrification groups who have made it their political purpose to prevent such changes).