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With a good grid, you could always close off some of the side streets to cars and let bikes and pedestrians through. With the big up front design... you better
by davidw 4y ago
With a good grid, you could always close off some of the side streets to cars and let bikes and pedestrians through. With the big up front design... you better hope you got it right the first time because you are going to have more trouble changing it later.
I think that's what I like about a grid. It doesn't have to be 100% right. You can change and shape and adapt it as needs be.
- strken 4y agoWith a big up-front layout you can still leave big enough gaps to put a road in and create a grid if you need, too: it goes both ways. Keep government ownership of pedestrian and bike paths with some nice trees on either side, and if you really need to you can put a road there later.
- davidw 4y agoThat's still a grid you're describing, in terms of the right-of-ways that have been reserved for the public. Just without roads built out on all of them. And yeah, that makes sense in some places.