Chapter 3 – Part four: A central metropolitan block

The network grid

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In this example, seeing that the emphasis to some extent lay on preservation, we decided to adopt the larger network grid which would surround rather than divide the West End. This, of course, reduced the capacity of the network and hence the maximum permissible traffic generation by the study area to 10,200 p.c.u./hour (Figure 175 and Table 9, Grid D).