http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/01/05/leonia-streets-off-navigational-apps/
Good luck getting deliveries.
Fair enough, if locals stay off the freeway.
These small streets in neighborhoods were designed and built for residents to get to and from their houses, connecting to major thoroughfares. They were not intended to be used as main arteries for traffic. Apps like Waze that route commuters through residential neighborhoods need to be changed.
The real solution is to upgrade the main roads to carry the traffic without delay.
No one wants to go down residential streets to get somewhere, but when traffic is a nightmare, any advantage is good. Many towns do not want to understand this.
Did they ever remove all the Martin Luther King Blvd’s, especially after dark?
I was going to make a smart ass comment about a sleepy little town that close to Manhattan, but I (ironically) went to Google maps and took a little tour of the town. I was expecting crowded apartments or some other crappy area, but it was a nice little town.
Then I found out that google doesn't handle multilevel roads well and fell off the highway a couple of times while "driving".
Bad move in any case to say who can go on or not go on a public city street. Racist comes to mind.
Suspect next move will be to convert from public to closed streets with gates.
Maybe they should close off their highway access, force themselves to go down the road a bit to get on/off the highway, thus eliminating public desire to enter or travel through their retched community.
Who cares? Would not go there on a bet.
Screw them New Jerks, and their "citizens" too. Force 'em to make all the local streets and residential areas dead end streets with only one inlet/outlet, see how they like it.
They'll be begging for access to the highway.
The only way you'd use side streets is if you got off 95 into Palisades Park to the south, were coming from the the Englewood Area, or from the west along 46.
Who pays for the roads?
I had personal experience of this phenomenon on the day of the Total Solar Eclipse. We trekked to Dixon Springs State Park at the southern tip of Illinois for the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse. On the trip back, we found ourselves in long lines for Stop Signs in Southern Illinois, after following “Siri’s” advice. This was a transient phenomenom, of course, but it was an eye-opener for me.
I might add that Siri’s last direction, which we were reluctant to follow, but did, was to “cut north” for many miles to escape the northbound congestion on I57. At this point, around 10PM, we could see other cars on the same path, by their headlights, but we were widely dispersed. This was in contrast to our experience earlier in the afternoon, when we found ourselves in long “Siri” jam ups, which lasted for some minutes at rural crossroads.
The upshot was that Siri saved us 4 or 5 hours out of the Great Solar Eclipse Traffic Jam.
All this one-horse town needs to do is pass appropriate ordinances respecting the problematic streets.
Having been a driver who used the GW Bridge nearly daily some years ago, I can attest to the fact that the modern mapping apps have NOTHING to do with the local congestion from commuters going through Leonia.
Commuters have been trying Leonia streets for a very long time when backups occur on I-95 & NJ Rt 4 into the GW Bridge - LONG BEFORE THERE WERE “APPS”. Enough daily commuters witnessing tie ups (can see near stand-stills sometimes on I-95) will always investigate local routes in an attempt to gain some time advantage. Whether they do or not is a different question.