The newer neighborhoods in Phoenix are designed on purpose to prevent this type of cut-through traffic. The northern Glendale area where my house is has luxuri

The newer neighborhoods in Phoenix are designed on purpose to prevent this type of cut-through traffic. The northern Glendale area where my house is has luxuriously broad thoroughfares with three lanes in each direction, plus usually an extra right turn lane and left turn lane at intersections, plus a median that accommodates incidental left turns without interrupting traffic flow. From a driving point of view, these roads are virtually perfect. But the minute you enter the neighborhoods, which tend to have walls between the houses and the main roads to keep down the noise, the roads become curly-cue winding paths with T-intersections and dead ends all over the place. The point is, you can easily get to your house, and you can easily get to various outlets to a major road or to the minor "partial cut-throughs" that are really only useful to the residents. But few will use the neighborhoods as cut-throughs. I would suppose Waze is not of much value in this type of district, except maybe to warn you to reroute from one major road to the other. Maybe the residents of these cut-through neighborhoods alluded to in the article should introduce more speed bumps and stop signs to "calm" the traffic and make their roads less desirable alternatives. In some cases, creating one-ways is also useful if it doesn't inconvenience the residents too much. Parking on the street, if legal, would also impede traffic, forcing people to cross lanes or wait. It would also help to have the main thoroughfares be properly widened and maintained as in the Phoenix example, don't allow major road and sewage maintenance during rush hour, etc.