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[quote=Anonymous]In newer suburbs, transportation engineers also design roads to be much wider and with larger turn radii than the narrower streets with dense housing and shops engineered 100 years ago.

These wider roads are not pedestrian friendly but they allow for speedy response times for emergency vehicles, and most importantly allow for cars to travel faster, since these roads prioritize cars and reducing traffic build up over pedestrians. This is all baked into the code.

Often times, in planned communities like in Reston, Valencia, Greenbelt and Irvine, the pedestrian pathways are completely separated from the roads and run independently of them through parks, in landscaped areas between the houses, and under and over roadways. This way, cars can drive faster without worrying about pedestrians.

Small dense areas of housing and shops can be developed in the suburbs like at the Mosaic in Merrifield. But that whole neighborhood is private property designed and built by a single developer. [/quote]

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