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Local Transport Areas

Opening context:
City Country Fingers, Mosaic of Subcultures

Conflict

Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities. But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that they kill all social life.

Resolution

Break the urban area down into local transport areas each one between 1 and 2 miles across, surrounded by a ring road. Within the local transport area, build minor local roads and paths for internal movements on foot, by bike, on horseback and in local vehicles; build major roads which make it easy for cars and trucks to get to and from ring roads but place them to make internal local trips slow and inconvenient.

Closing context:
Parallel Roads, Green Streets, Bike Paths and Racks, Ring Roads, Interchange