Table of contents 1. About the only people who love traffic are retailers in downtowns or on Main Streets who benefit from the bustle and sense of busyness. For retailers in malls, it's bad. It gives would-be shoppers another visual and psychological barrier to cross. Her work has been published in the Journal of the American Planning Association , and she predicts a declining future for today's edge cities.
Roads are destiny.
They road system you start with is what you get, period. European cities have medieval road systems to this day. The more streets you have, the better flow of traffic. That's why downtowns have better flow than suburbs. No one in the suburbs wants more streets.