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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I chuckle when my friends in AU park brag on one hand about their proximity and urban like grid pattern streets and then talk out the other side of their mouths about all the people cutting through their neighborhood on those grid streets to get downtown. What did they think would happen? That’s why  cul-de-sacs cost more right? [/quote]

This is what I don't get. I prefer 100% the grid layout. But then I see all these articles about how they need to reduce or cut traffic because people drive down the streets. That's the point!

I feel like a lot of these people want to live like they're on a cul de sac but still have the grid.[/quote]

Just because it's a grid pattern doesn't mean you should be flying through those neighborhoods like a maniac.

It also doesn't help that navigation apps like Waze and Google Maps don't do an adequately good enough jobs at discriminating between arterials which can handle traffic volumes versus residential side streets.  That also happens in the suburbs, too.  So now the trend is to add speed bumps everywhere.[/quote]

Yeah the point is that they speed and run through stop signs, not that they exist and drive through. I live on a cut through street (not in AU park) and don’t care if people cut through but that they barely stop at stop signs, don’t yield to pedestrians and go ten miles over the speed limit [/quote]

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