Urceopolis (City): Difference between revisions

The ''Via Corona'' is a major thoroughfare which runs through the exterior of the Crescent and was the former site of the city's medieval walls, which replaced the ancient walls in the early 14th century. The Via Corona itself was constructed in the 1860s as the walls were demolished and was intended to provide cross-city linkage while creating open streets which would be difficult for insurgent revolutionaries to {{wp|barricade}}. The road, named ''Crown Street'' in Latin due to its somewhat circular shape, presently includes an inner "express" roadway and side roadways for local traffic with bike lanes and sidewalks in between. As with the Crescent, the Via Corona essentially surrounds the ancient portion of Urceopolis to the north. The Via Corona today serves as the major inner-city roadway, intersecting with several routes of the National Interprovincial Highway Service which run near and around the city. Many park and ride structures sit on the west side of the Via Corona, typically about a block or two behind the street itself in order to preserve the architectural continuity of its buildings. These park and rides allow for access to New City, where cars are not permitted, as well as other areas in New City, Crescent, and the Flats where parking may be difficult to find by way of Archducal Rapid Transit stations which sit all along the Via Corona. Accordingly, many of the back streets off Via Corona experience severe gridlock in rush hour periods during scheduled train stops.