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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by hx87 on Monday June 06, 2016 @04:49PM (#11850224)
OTOH, an excessive feeling of ownership over neighborhood roads leads to the Tragedy of the Anticommons: everyone keeps the roads in their neighborhood off limits to outsiders, so everyone gets stuck in traffic longer, with all the entailing health and environmental costs, and thus a formerly public resource (roads) becomes underutilized.
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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by johnmaguire2013 on Monday June 06, 2016 @05:30PM (#11850565)
OTOH, neighborhood roads aren't designed for the same amount of traffic as main roads -- maintenance happens less often, the roads are made of cheaper materials, there are no street lights, etc.

I don't believe that they are "underutilized" by being used solely as neighborhood roads -- that is, in fact, all they were designed for.

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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by hx87 on Monday June 06, 2016 @06:03PM (#11850807)
You're right that they are designed for lower loads. But perhaps they shouldn't be, and retrofitting them might be a good use of public money.
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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by johnmaguire2013 on Monday June 06, 2016 @06:18PM (#11850906)
At that point, why not expand "public" roads?
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Re:Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war by rahimnathwani on Monday June 06, 2016 @09:59PM (#11851911)
Expand them how? Make them wider, and get rid of the sidewalk? Make them multi-level?
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