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Highway +Ped +Bike Vertebrae

Discusison, criticism, and suggestions welcome.

For use with: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=846561167

City Core implementation example:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=846564267

With this design you will have a very compact, high capacity transit web for grid layouts.

Warning: HIgh levels of industry may eventually overwhelm some of these access points if not properly planned for, remember, trucks are not pedestrians, so plan accordingly.

I am working on a specially designed high capacity cloverleaf to use specifically with thise vertebrae intersection design, it will be uploaded soon.

Proper deployment: Place these at where a highway will intersect one of your city grid streets. Then connect the roads. Finally, if you have previously deployed other vertebrae at sections along the highway, link the top and bottom pedestrian intersections to the ones just prior to them on your highway and just after if you should extend the highway. Remember the pedestrian pathways of the vertebrae must be connected for the pedestrian network to fully and properly function.

Sugguested improvements to increase network capacity: Place bus stops, tram stops (if trams are used), and subway/metro access points adjacent to the pedestrian wakways to fully integrate your transit system.

This is a high capacity Highway "Vetrtebrae" designed to be used in conjunction with a basic cloverleaf that has exactly 1 space between the bi-directional highway lanes. The 1 space is exploited to maximize transit by providing a pedestrian walkway that WILL be extensively used. This has been tested.

The design is based on human anatomy with the concept that the pedestrian paths will be linked at their centers along the length of the highway providing conectivity to the entire city to pedestrian access like a neural pathway running between the column sof the spine. Additionally when the roads are linked to other cyclist transit lanes you will see extremely low residential motor use except for exceptionally long distance travel.

Every other row on an 8 spaced vertiical statck will have one of these every 2 intersections on your grid. The horizontal will have one every intersection. When used with a 4 way cloverleaf in all directions they will form a gird lay out.