DCHP-3

grid (road) system

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a method of laying out new roads such that the distance between them will be two miles north to south and one mile east and west.

Quotations

1958
Two other roadways that do not conform to the grid system also require names. . . .
1964
Saskatchewan . . . has the best municipal road system in Canada and other provinces were moving to copy the grid road system, Archie Campbell, director of the provincial grid road authority, said Tuesday night.