. Report [and] proceedings . try laid out in rectangles of various sizes, theside lines of which form the basis of our street system and whichare projected rigidly in some cases across miles of lake and marshand up impossible grades. We have property boundaries paral-leling our original road allowances, and our new streets parallelingour property boundaries, whether they run east and west, or northand south. The result is chaos, with, as its consequence, an incal-culable waste of time and money, just because two sides of a tri-angle are greater than the third. The case for diagonal roads isone
. Report [and] proceedings . try laid out in rectangles of various sizes, theside lines of which form the basis of our street system and whichare projected rigidly in some cases across miles of lake and marshand up impossible grades. We have property boundaries paral-leling our original road allowances, and our new streets parallelingour property boundaries, whether they run east and west, or northand south. The result is chaos, with, as its consequence, an incal-culable waste of time and money, just because two sides of a tri-angle are greater than the third. The case for diagonal roads isone that can almost be summed up in the words direct com-munication with this added feature, that, while streets in a grid- 90 ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO LAND SURVEYOKS iron plan are only fed by streets running at right angles to them,a diagonal street is fed by streets running both north and southand east and west, and on that account, if constructed as an aid torapid transit in the heart of a city, should be of a sufficient width. Plate I.—London. \°. V ,^^. \i W ^^. >R / >/ ^^. ju\b W > ^ ^^ >;!^^^^^^\ 1 *^^^^^* ?^ ^ ^^^^n! \ 1 / ^-ii^^S ^^^iip^ >. \ / ^^^fi*^^^^^^y^^z* ^5l^j^^^ AAm^am A^.tuA tu -^y^im^itu^ ^^*^ /^,,^, ^ ^^^i^ / Cot^i < Jc ¥nirr» nf. \ %^^^ ^^^n7 ii,A^^^J\^^: 1 £stf^i^^^%% i^^^Z/k^ Jt^^^J^^ ^^^^iL^ ^^^^xf \^^ ! v/^^RTct —tkt;??^^^ : w ^^, ^%. Y (V sk ^^ V */. JXiSm^^ «1 ...........^ ^n^^m ?•V|-*-- *t Plate II.—Paris. to allow for three lines of traffic in each direction, one standing,one slow, and one fast, between the car-line and the curb. Themost important results to be desired from the construction of suchstreets are the permanent location of the business centres, with the PAPERS READ 91 guarantee that, in the future, there will ]ye no depreciation ofproperty values such as took place in Toronto when the businessmoved west from the market, and the provision of suitable sitesfor the display of those arch
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