Roads and streets are yin and yang for city building. They are at cross purposes and antithetical to each other, but both are necessary for ultimate success. We must have great roads that provide high-speed connections between productive places, places that build wealth and prosperity. We must also have great streets that produce enough wealth not only to sustain themselves, but also to fund a proportionate share of the roads that connect them to other productive places. Degrading roads to make them more street-like, or degrading streets to make them more road-like, reduces the overall value
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