Road Network

The road system around the city is mostly laid out in a grid pattern. This not always the case, as some roads need to bend or curve away from buildings. The roads are 9 blocks wide, made of black wool to mimic tarmac with a white carpet in the middle to represent the white painted lines on roads in real life.

Road traffic such as cars, buses and trucks are all four blocks wide, and the 9 block-wide roads allow for this traffic to pass in either direction.

History
Originally the roads were only 7 blocks wide to accommodate 3 block-wide road traffic, however a rethink on how wide cars, buses and trucks should be meant that all existing roads had to be widened by one block either side. This work took place throughout 2014. Every road since has been built 9 blocks wide.

There are some existing roads in the very centre of the city that remain 7 blocks wide, and have since been converted into pedestrian zones, where no road traffic is allowed.