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Can you drive in your cities' metro from one end to the other on nothing but surface streets? This excludes streets that turn in to highways/farmroads, basically streets that have retail/commercial throughout.
That's not true Boston for example has many of its streets turn in to mini highways along the way
Hmm. I thought Boston would be another example of a metro area you could go through without highways. I'm sure if you carefully planned a route you could avoid highways.
It depends how far out you mean by metro. Philly and its inner suburbs are almost nothing but surface streets, but a place like Chester county, which is in Philly's metro is largely exurban and rural, the same holds true for the outer regions of the other suburban counties also, and the outer regions in general. However, south jersey has a lot of highway like roads.
So are streets that have retail / commercial throughout included or excluded?
Yes they should include retail, basically can you get from one end to the other using nothing but built retail environment without leapfrogging for the exception of crossing bridges?
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Colfax Ave. in Denver, from Golden to Aurora. From the base of the Rockies to the plains, right through the very heart of Denver.
Central Ave. in Albuquerque from the West Mesa through the very heart of Albuquerque over to the base of the Sandia Mountains.
Burnside Street in Portland, another crosstown arterial starting in Beaverton, through the West Hills, through Downtown, the East Side, into Gresham.
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