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Originally Posted by Uhuniau
Well, you can, I suppose, if the city were to take advantage of the occasional fire or other unplanned demolotion to create such cut-throughs.
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Assuming there is a "fire or other unplanned demolotion" at a strategecly significant location, the city would still have to work a deal out with the owner and insurance company to buy the land from the owner and then let the owner use the insurance money to buy/build at a new location. I've never heard of that happening, though I guess it theoretically could.
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But all the pedestrian shortcuts in the world are not very supportive of land use evolving over time if the underlying topology of the street network is still designed to send the message: Unless You Live Here, You Don't Belong Here.
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Agreed. You need collectors and arterials that are at least reasonably straight and go somewhere useful. As for makng them welcoming, newer residential streets seem to have sidewalks on them, which helps a lot. This certainly wasn't the case 20 years ago (or even less).
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