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Yup. There's a two-lane road in my hometown that was built and designed for 45 MPH traffic. The rich residents that had trouble pulling out of their driveways o
by ThrustVectoring 10y ago
Yup. There's a two-lane road in my hometown that was built and designed for 45 MPH traffic. The rich residents that had trouble pulling out of their driveways onto that road successfully petitioned to get the speed limit reduced to 35 MPH - but this does absolutely nothing to change the design of the existing road. Traffic on that road routinely goes 45-50 MPH on it. If you go the posted speed limit, it feels like you're crawling along.
- thomastjeffery 10y agoWouldn't it be nice if those "rich residents" focused on fixing their driveways instead of forcing everyone around them to alter their way of life?
- ThrustVectoring 10y agoIt's not a problem with their driveways. It's a geographic problem, really, with lakefront houses in the 100-400ft strip between an arterial road and the lake. The other side is a steep hill, so you can't make more room, and the main road has to wind a bunch. You don't have the room to put in collection streets and make controlled intersections, so you basically just have to make them wait for a gap and pull out. And as with pretty much any community that has that much value in their house, they're huge NIMBYs.