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Originally Posted by lookout123
phoenix is a grid system and i see no traffic disruptions from this at all. we have traffic lights on every intersection. The traffic keeps to the main arteries - reducing traffic flow through neighborhoods, allowing our kids to be a little bit safer in their yards, driveways, and sidewalks. the arteries are an exact 1 mile block system, every half mile has a main thoroughfair (sp). this means that at the very most, 1/4 mile in ANY direction takes you to a street with easy access.
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I remember this about Pheonix now. It was settled after the invention of the automobile. I was amazed at how huge the blocks are. Here, you could have 20 blocks or more in a mile.
Obviously, gated communities are diffferent everywhere, and it sounds like for Phoenix it is working.
A fundamental truth, though is that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. If you have a fence around an area, it will be blocking people from going in a direct line between two points.
Here's a hand drawn map of what a typical gated community around here looks like. If you live in a green house, and your friend lives in the other green house, you still have to follow the purple path to visit one another, and both communities together take up a huge chunk of real estate, keeping everyone else from cutting through the area. Maybe they are different around you and OC.