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WanderingEng · 3135 days ago · link · · parent · post: Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war, again.
Rhetorical question: is some of this the blame of infrastructure planners? It's probably simplistic, but I see two types of residential streets. There's the classic grid, and there's the windy roads where nothing goes anywhere. My experience is it's the latter, the windy roads, that feel like they have heavier traffic. My theory is the grids have so many options that everyone disperses over numerous roads while the winding roads have pinch point upon pinch point, funneling everyone toward and then onto the one road that actually goes somewhere. So I hesitate to blame Waze. Why did it funnel a couple hundred cars down a residential road? Because it couldn't funnel them down four parallel roads.