Trailwood Village
This page shows more detail than THE PLAN or the THREE VILLAGES pages. The horizontal blue lines at the top and the bottom of the fictional map represent arterial streets that I call Parkways. The Parkways connect each Village with the other Villages, the Central Business District, and with public streets and highways leading away from the project.
The black vertical line represents a collector street I call Trailwood Village Drive. Each Village has one Village Drive to connect each street in the Village with the Parkways. Parkways and Drives do not have any private drives accessing them to allow a smoother and faster flow of traffic.
The black horizontal lines are the residential streets with a cul-de-sac (or a circle drive) at the end of each street. Cul-de-sacs have less traffic than through streets. Notice that each residential street forms a "T" intersection with Trailwood Village Drive. A "T" intersection will naturally slow down automobile traffic as it approaches the intersection. It also eliminates the possibility of driving on Trailwood Drive and making a wrong turn at the intersection -- there is only one way to turn.
Each residential street should have its own unique name, a name found nowhere else in the community. The streets should be named in alphabetical order to make it easier for visitors and emergency personnel to find their destination. The first street I will call Alpine Street. In the example below it is the first horizontal line below Ash Parkway. The next street might be named Briarwood Street, and it is the second horizontal line below Ash Parkway. The next horizontal line below Ash Parkway I will call Chestnut Street, and so forth.
The thin green lines represent the Greenbelt Trails that connect each cul-de-sac to the village shopping area and to the other villages in the community. These trails would be for pedestrians and cyclists.
I can email the map above in a PDF file.