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Originally Posted by Uhuniau
And topologically, those supposedly improved street layouts are, topologically, the same as pretty much any other suburban development since the end of WWII.
Rectilinear loops and dead ends are topologically identical to curvy ones - the navigation and implicit You Don't Belong Here message is still the same.
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Loops and dead ends are okay if pathways are installed to allow pedestrians to take a short cut to the collector or aterial that has bus service. We don't need buses on every single street, we just need to make sure the streets that have them are easily accessable from the other streets. Part of the problem is we don't plan the pedestrian network for future expansions. Once a row of houses exists, you can't put add a pathway that wasn't planned for. Occasionally they will put in a future road connection, but I have never seen a future pathway connection added.
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