Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war

Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by Dr_tldr on Monday June 06, 2016 @04:47PM (#11850211)

The implication that people who have more knowledge about a local area have more right to publicly maintained resources than those who don't is even more troubling. Maintaining unequal access to public resources is a form of corruption, discrimination, or both.

A traffic engineer whose designs are only effective when there's information asymmetry is either

A) dealing with impossible project restraints/requirements B) terrible at their job

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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by shivsta on Monday June 06, 2016 @07:12PM (#11851256)

I agree that all information should be free for everyone, but your assessment is too harsh. Impossible projects are probably pretty common in many dense cities.

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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by Dr_tldr on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @02:45AM (#11852822)

100% agree, it's usually not the fault of the engineers. But in a better system, they wouldn't face political pressure to tell people that indefinite growth without inconvenience or long term investment is possible.

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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by speby on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:47AM (#11854856)

Not entirely sure I agree with that. Roads are not paid for by "everyone's taxes." Many roads are paved/maintained using funds provided by a local municipality. Thus, by that definition, in many instances, a "local road" is indeed paid for and, in a sense, "owned" by the residents who pay taxes to the local municipality that uses their tax dollars to improve said roads.

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