Originally Posted by
Machka
Yes, of course you can build a network a piece at a time and end up with something that works. But you need a plan. Doing it haphazardly, with no plan, with no organisation, produces poor results and creates frustration for everyone.
The scale of planning is another variable. Do you design for just one neighborhood at a time? For an entire quadrant of a city? For the total city? For a large metropolitan region? For an entire state or province? Sometimes smaller pieces are built first, then eventually joined with a larger system. This process might seem haphazard, but there is planning involved at each step of the way.
My city has a "non-motor master plan" that looks 25 years into the future. So do many neighboring cities, suburbs and the entire tri-county region. The plan (really more of a dream at this stage) is to eventually hook all this together.