Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957, Newport Improvement Association · [Cambridge, Mass., The University press] · leaf 30
assumption that thor-oughfares of adequate ca-pacity will be provided atreasonable intervals, sothat no through trafficwill ever have to be forcedthrough the narrow resi-dence streets. The troublewith the people who laidout these excellent littlelocal residence streets,branching out fromBroadway… … [ IS ] was that they apparently did not reaUze thatthe town would ever require any thoroughfaresexcept Broadway. Even Spring Street was ashort stub-end in the beginning. BellevueAvenue was a quite modern developmentthrough farm lands, and the idea that any onewould ever have to go through Levin…
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