I'd love a road network like that and see a lot of sense in it, considering the amount of duplication going on in even larger cities. You often have blocks of housing with schools and retail centers dotted about in repeating patterns, so it's not like many people would often wind up with a 20MPH limit being a major hurdle. I'd imagine extra-long cart rides would only happen to slightly more people than extra-long drives by car currently affect in many places, and unlike the latter, the former could be bridged by public parking lots at bus stops and the like.<br><br><br>The only proper bike trails in this city I'm in were just put in as a token gesture here and there, and the rest are confined to parks. You just can't get around via cycle here unless you live in work in very specific places, unless you're willing to commit to sharing often shoulderless roads with normal traffic. Considering normal biking speed for many is 10-20MPH, and most roads here have speed limits of 40-60MPH and not so much as a shoulder or sidewalk (city ordinances ban biking on sidewalks, but people often ignore that for safety's sake when available, and no one enforces it), it's just asking to get run over once the sun goes down. Basically, I'm radiating enough jealousy to power a small town right now.