We recently met friends for dinner in downtown Bethesda (coming from Nova) and we could NOT believe the weird residential way the map brought us. But no traffic...

We didn’t speed or honk but I can see how this sucks.

Anonymous wrote:We have the same situation on our street and in our neighborhood in the city as do friends in Md and Va. Once they leave their own neighborhoods, people seem to forget that you shouldn’t speed through residential streets and that morning rush includes getting children to school. Lots of people walk in our area and that seems not to register with some commuters.

+1

The same people would be super-pissed if someone was driving too fast through their neighborhood, and it's like they forget they are in someone else's neighborhood.

We have the same situation on our street and in our neighborhood in the city as do friends in Md and Va. Once they leave their own neighborhoods, people seem to forget that you shouldn’t speed through residential streets and that morning rush includes getting children to school. Lots of people walk in our area and that seems not to register with some commuters.

I have seen MD drivers to some weird stuff in my quiet neighborhood near the MD line. Usually it's just stopping in the middle of the street to look at their phones, not fully stopping at stop signs, etc. And I get annoyed when they sit for 10-15 min in front of our houses with the engine on.

But the other day, a MD driver actually reversed almost one full block on my two-way street, then turned right toward a main road. The driver would've been heading for that same main road without reversing, as my neighborhood is on a grid.

I totally agree, and I've been rerouted by Waze onto small streets. So I know these things happen. I live on a one-way street that's a block off a major traffic artery into DC (Maryland Ave). I can't believe how people fly down our street and the streets around us. There is a stop sign at EVERY CORNER. Driving 35 MPH between stops is not going to get you anywhere appreciably faster, and you are way more likely to damage your car or hit a pedestrian.

I am probably going to get flamed for this but if you commute into the city from a suburb and Google maps is routing you off of main roads to avoid traffic, PLEASE REMEMBER that you are driving through somebody's neighborhood. I'm SO SICK of the honking, speeding, angry suburban drivers racing through the little one-way residential streets near me when I am walking my kids to daycare. It's gotten a lot worse in the past couple years so I can only assume Google maps is routing people, otherwise I honestly don't understand how these cars would end up on my street since it's just a one-way a few blocks away from any major arterial road.

I understand the streets are for everybody and I understand I live in the city and that means a lot of people need to get here for work, all I'm asking is that you keep in mind that this is my neighborhood where my kids play and I walk on the streets. The speed limit is 15, and there are stop signs every block for a reason. If that is frustrating to you, then stay on the major roads which are designed for more inbound traffic.

I have no other venue by which I would ever communicate with commuters so.... here I am. I'm sure a bunch of people are going to start yelling at me about this, somehow.