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The
traffic arteries for this sprawling city also fall into four
ranks: 60 mph freeways, 45 mph boulevards, 30 mph streets, and
5 mph driveways.
The
east-west freeways, shown in yellow, parallel each other a mile
apart. Their interchanges connect them to north-south
boulevards, shown in red. The freeways pass underneath
the boulevards so that gravity accelerates cars going down the
on-ramps and slows cars coming up the off-ramps.
Every
500 feet or so along each four-lane boulevard, there is an
intersection with a street, shown in blue, which keeps crossing and
re-crossing the boulevard. And it is only on these streets that
one finds the entrances to driveways and parking lots.
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This
particular square mile includes the civic center, with one-of-a-kind
buildings like City Hall and the sports stadiums and arenas.
Their parking facilities, shown in gray, connect with different parts
of the street system so that traffic can leave major events in
several different directions. In the corresponding areas of
other square miles of the city, there might be parks or factories.
A
boulevard and the street that crosses it have the same name.
All numerical addresses refer to distances along the street.
For more visibility, retail businesses and other high-traffic
destinations are generally located near a street/boulevard
intersection, while residential areas are farther down the block for
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