There is a solution for this, although it does not necessarily apply to existing situations, it's from "A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction" A Pa

There is a solution for this, although it does not necessarily apply to existing situations, it's from "A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction" A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, the architecture book that spawned the Software Design Patterns movement. "49 Looped Local Roads Nobody wants fast through traffic going by their homes. Through traffic is fast, noisy, and dangerous. At the same time cars are important, and cannot be excluded altogether from the areas where people live. Local roads must provide access to houses but prevent traffic from coming through. This problem can only be solved if all roads which have houses on them are laid out to be "loops." We define a looped road as any road in a road network so placed that no path along other roads in the road network can be shortened by travel along the "loop.'' The loops themselves must be designed to discourage high volumes or high speeds: this depends on the total number of houses served by the loop, the road surface, the road width, and the number of curves and corners. [...]"