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So the people living in small, dense dwelling and apartments can foot the bill for the nice roads of the folks with big properties ... I wonder how the dynamic

by jariel 6y ago

So the people living in small, dense dwelling and apartments can foot the bill for the nice roads of the folks with big properties ... I wonder how the dynamic would change if all 'access roads' i.e. roads with homes on them, and not 'artery roads' had to be paid for by the local neighborhood.

burlesona 6y ago
This has been considered. For example, Virginia greatly restricted cul-de-sacs[1], and my understanding is that the mechanism by which they accomplished this is changing the rules so that only "through streets" would be eligible for public maintenance going forward, hence if you had a cul-de-sac or private loop road or something you had to maintain it yourself. But I think that's only forward-looking, it doesn't change things for all the private roadways built in the past. 1: https://www.planetizen.com/node/37942 https://www.planetizen.com/node/37942
- xxpor 6y ago
  The way VA does road maintenance is wildly different than nearly every other state though. Every road outside of independent cities is state maintained. Not county or town, but full state maintenance. It makes it much easier to do these types of changes.