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Originally Posted by 10023
But on the other hand, all of those “organic” roads, not the side streets but the main, ancient ones, actually go somewhere. They connect one significant point of interest to another. And that has its own benefits, particularly for wandering. Anyone can figure out how to get from 3rd and 15th to 7th and 43rd, but what exactly is in either of those locations?
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The big advantage with this arrangement is also that naturally, the streets linking those major destinations are the the shortest, most direct route possible. With many of the "true" grid plans you get a fair bit of inefficiency if traveling in any sort of diagonal direction - unless of course you have some sort of Chicago or Detroit-style radial intervention to break up the grid.