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Figure 3: Overall design concept for downtown Paris, Texas. <br />11 he 11 wo-way IRestoiratio n of Is' Stireet/Nairn Street and ILar nair AvenlUe/OairksviHe Street <br />A Brief History of One-way and Two-way Streets <br />Since the founding of cities in the United States, starting in 1565 with St. Augustine, until about 50 years <br />ago, all streets were two-way. Of course, for thousands of years before that, paths, trails, and streets in <br />Native American villages and along their trading routes were also two-way. There were lots of good <br />reasons for the two-way operations. The most obvious reasons are the convenience of being able to go <br />either way along a street, direct routing, and shorter trips. Such traditional reasons weren't widely <br />recognized, documented, assigned technical names, or even measured because that was just the way <br />things were for thousands of years. The basic idea of two-way streets was never in question. However, <br />0 <br />