In reply to Alex Cecchini.

Its grid is "more focused" on the highways, because the highways disrupted the grid more severely, and because the density of the highway is higher.

Which might be considered a subsidy (so might Minneapolis's thicker grid of MSA streets). But if you're (legitimately) saying that freeways take up land and devalue properties around them, I think that thinking ought to be applied even more vigorously to places where the freeway grid is denser.