

City has 10 parallel car heavy paths to get from point A to B : normal, good, as it should be.
City has 9 parallel car heavy paths and 1 person/bike/transit path to get from point A to B : A travesty, doom for business, the unraveling of all civilization.
Sounds like someone separated his brain from his body to either sell to medical science, a university, or the army, and instead fucked it up.
Maybe legal, probably not. Its common in the US, and deeply fucked up.