East Boston: a survey and a comprehensive plan . th a guaranteed and tested high degree of precision butwithout further planning, cost about $800 per square cost to Boston of such a survey would be amply justi-fied by the increase in efficiency and the lessening of causefor errors and delays to the many departments of the cityand to the general public that would be served. 2.—MAIN THOROUGHFARES. APPROACHES TOTHE DISTRICT, MAIN STREETS AND INTER-SECTION POINTS. In the development of any community the size, distri-bution and interrelation of its main thoroughfares, theconvenience of app
East Boston: a survey and a comprehensive plan . th a guaranteed and tested high degree of precision butwithout further planning, cost about $800 per square cost to Boston of such a survey would be amply justi-fied by the increase in efficiency and the lessening of causefor errors and delays to the many departments of the cityand to the general public that would be served. 2.—MAIN THOROUGHFARES. APPROACHES TOTHE DISTRICT, MAIN STREETS AND INTER-SECTION POINTS. In the development of any community the size, distri-bution and interrelation of its main thoroughfares, theconvenience of approaches and the character, size anddistribution of business and social centers play a veryimportant part. The proportion of the developed areaof the city occupied by streets is relatively large — ordi-narily from one-fifth to one-third, and in some cases, asthat of the Boston market district, one-half of the totalarea. The first cost for construction and the annualburden for maintenance of the streets represents a large City Planning Development of East Boston. 9 portion of the total city budget. The cost of streetimprovements is enormously greater where the originalplan was inadequate and where there was no reasonableplanning in advance of building. The lack of such fore-sight can never be fully offset, even at great cost forreconstruction. The determination of just what are or should be themain thoroughfares depends upon several factors. Inthe downtown district nearly all radial streets that are atall direct, even though only a few hundred feet apart,become main thoroughfares. Cross streets at intervalsof one-fourth mile or so are needed there to provide fortravel. Farther out from the center the distance betweenmain lines logically becomes greater, so that in suburbandistricts a distance of half a mile or even a mile betweenmain thoroughfares is considered no great disadvantage,but where the distances become much greater than a miledevelopment is likely to be ver
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