A gridded street system will provide a driver more options for responding to congestion than a hierarchical network where all drivers are funneled to the same location. Congestion dynamics transcend the rote variables of speed and volume. Smaller buses with greater frequency provide less-congested, more dynamic service than one large, infrequent bus, even if the volume of passengers is the same. Each street in a gridded network may have less capacity than a major arterial, but the options given to drivers by a grid means that there will be less congestion and fewer delays, even with the same
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