Posted on 06/06/2016 4:17:05 PM PDT by dennisw
It’s still pretty nice. But I’m In tiny Northfield Center. Even better!
The schools in Cuyahoga Falls are still very good schools! My little gal went to Woodridge. Good school!
Depends on whether you vote for D’s or R’s...
Have you seen The Waze Runner?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mS05bRnIAcg
Part 2
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CBVBHRD5lNU
Me, too! Especially considering I live on a cul-de-sac. Through traffic would indicate a serious problem. :^)
Lincoln Elementary was the last one I attended. An old dear friend still lives there just across the street from the house I grew up in.
Thanks for sparking up some wonderful memories.
Best,
L
Ongoing traffic jams and congestion is symptom of an inept government who has a monopoly on the roadways.
Chicago has horrible commute and traffic problems. The so-called circle interchange is an absolute nightmare. The expressways that connect to the city could use an additional one to two lanes each way. The is constant ongoing construction to revamp these roads but never any plans or work to open up the roadways and reduce congestion. Of course, the sheeple never think to demand any accountability since its been an accepted fact of life for decades
In my area a lot of the “slow children playing” signs in yards have been replaced with ones that read, “drive like your children live here”.
In the good old days, the streets were paid for by the public and you were right.
But, for many decades most communities have required developers to put in public streets as a condition of developing residential areas. The streets are baked into the price of new houses, but they really have been paid for by the surrounding homeowners.
Legally of course, the streets are public. But, the ethics of the situation are different. If I paid a high price for a nice house on a quiet street, and paid for that street also, why should i suffer heavy traffic because the county has skimped on maintenance of the designated arterial streets?
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Enforcing the speed limit could be a new source of revenue to an alert Police Dept.
All they have to do is load Wayze on their phones, and find out where the flow is going.
Alert home owners can also rig the system by overloading wayze with fake travelers.
I’m a bit mystified.. Perhaps it is only a thing in the west, but assessments for building a road made on the surrounding property was the default in this area, and most developers assumed the costs of building the roads as it was FAR cheaper than the bloated charges the city made for the roads.
Perhaps on the east coast they generously built roads with public funds without charging homeowners for it?
And therein lies the problem. The additional wear and tear on the street will mean repairs/resurfacing sooner than anticipated, at a cost to the municipality or funding district responsible for maintaining the road.
Then of course there's the added safety issues of adding several hundred cars an hour to pedestrian traffic, small children, etc.. that would've otherwise been able to freely cross the streets back and forth unimpeded. It doesn't take much for a child to run into the middle of the street after a ball and not be seen by a car unfamiliar with the street and taking a shortcut. That's a recipe for disaster, IMO.
BTW, I do NOT support this guy buying a sign and putting it up ILLEGALLY to thwart traffic from coming down the street he lives on. The local municipality should be dealing with the traffic flow issues --- that's their job.
I do however think his creativity in using WAZE to report accidents, etc.. on his street to thwart the traffic was pretty darn creative and an example of just how easily social media can be disrupted to one's advantage.
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