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by pfranz
2476 days ago
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How far are they willing to go? I wouldn't be surprised London has similar problems, but in LA I owned a house on a "back road" that ran parallel to the 405 going north over a hill. The house was built 100 years ago. Neighbors told me the road was fine until Waze/Google maps about 10 years ago. My small house went up in value quite a bit the few years I was there, but if I wanted to buy a house on a cul-de-sac it would have been double the cost of my house. My neighbors over the 30+ years they lived there had added on to their house (like many others in the area). Last I heard they were unable to sell it--who would buy a large house on a very busy road? (their's wasn't the only example I saw) There's no school or anything to warrant blocking traffic. I'm sure it's a useful road for many people where taking the highway would double their travel time. They keep trying to expand the 405 and there aren't feasible public transit options. The few that exist rarely put you close enough to where you need to get. At least in the US, I feel like this road design fell out of favor a decade or two before GPSes and smart-phones. Instead of smaller roads that get improved as traffic increases, they have dedicated roads for thru traffic and neighborhoods become rat's nests, designed to discourage thru traffic. Neither system seems to "grow" very well, but of course locals prefer the "modern" approach. There was talk in my neighborhood of locals blocking off the road in the middle, which seems to make it more like the "modern" solution I've noticed in medium density housing and solve the "Waze problem." |
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