>>2057487
cities are for people to live in, not for highways to cross through
the logical thing to do is to have the freeways/highways surround the city, why would you waste away the most valuable, densely populated land of the city for a highway? you use the outskirts and build a ring or something of the likes, so that you can travel to opposite sides of the city actually faster by surrounding it with light traffic at a normal high way speed rather than driving through the center in dense traffic in a "highway" thats completelly filled with slow cars