Township arterials concentrate an extraordinary volume of economic activity on infrastructure that was designed only to move vehicles. Trade, transport interchange, waiting, and services accumulate wherever passengers change mode.
Observed behaviour
Trading density correlates almost exactly with interchange volume, not with proximity to residential density. The corridor is an economy of transfer, and its infrastructure should be designed as such.
A repeatable kit
Because the behaviour repeats, the intervention can repeat. A standard node — layby, shaded trading bays, water, ablution, waste, lighting, square — can be designed once and calibrated by volume, at a fraction of the cost of nine bespoke projects.
Tenure first
The determining risk is not construction. It is whether the traders currently occupying the space retain it after it is improved. Where they do not, the improvement destroys the economy it was intended to support.