The roads and paths in Port Imperial were often more by happenstance than by design, outside of the Imperial section by the Imperial docks which was laid out in a gridded design. Some of the new sections have been properly laid out as the bureaucracy is cracking down on squatters and making sure that everyone has the legal title to the land they are building on. But the point is, much of the city is haphazardously laid out and built.
But times are changing and the city is evolving into a proper city from a boomtown, this means, among other things, proper roads. The Imperial military is building roads for Imperial purposes, though some of those are helpful for others as well.
The rest of Port Imperial is left to its own devices for better roads. Enter Tolentok Breakstone and his company. They gather discarded stones and shells, break them and use them to pave roads. When they can find wood, they build boardwalks but their specialty is gravel roads. They can do cobblestone roads as well, when they can get the materials, and brick pathways, but again getting the materials is the tricky part as most people would rather build houses than streets with stone and brick but gravel and broken shells do not have many other uses. Read the rest of this entry »