On the one hand, it’s a public road, paid for with taxpayer dollars, and the public has every right to use it. On the other hand, small neighborhood streets are designed for light traffic by the residents - they aren’t big enough to become busy thoroughfares.
“small neighborhood streets are designed for light traffic by the residents “
I agree completely. When Rt. 82 backs up at rush hours, people come down my narrow residential side street, full of kids, dog walkers, people walking for exercise. It’s a 25 mph street with no sidewalks. People and pets have been hit by a-holes driving 50 mph. I’d like s couple of inconvenient stop signs and maybe some speed bumps! My street was not designed for heavy, speeding traffic. And being a tiny town, we gey our paid for LEOs from the Summit County Sheriffs. And there are too few of them in this sleepy little burg to set up more than one or two traps to slow things down.
Who says they’re designed for light traffic? Granted they’re single lane roads, but who defines small traffic?
Well when they fill up Waze with tell them to go another way
My road was paid for by the first homeowners on the road. The road is now maintained by my city taxes. So unless you own a house on my street and live in my town of 4,000 you did not pay to build or maintain anything.
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.