Google Maps and Waze are "ruining" neigborhoods

[UCFKnight85]

Interesting article. People in LA are pissed off since Waze is sending drivers off the freeways to avoid traffic and through their neighborhood streets since it's technically faster. The end result are traffic jams and assholes speeding in residential areas.

I've actually seen this in south Tampa. I was in a traffic jam that looked like something out of NYC and it was on a residential street. I have no idea how people live there even get to or out of their driveways anywhere near rush hour times.

IMO this just drives up value for homes in neighborhoods that are built separately, off of any main throughway road.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-encino-waze-20180530-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

 

[UCFWayne]

saw basically the same article a couple years ago about people wanting to take pics of the hollywood sign and people complaining then too

 

[1ofTheseKnights]

Why do these people hate capitalism?

 

[fabknight]

Interesting article. People in LA are pissed off since Waze is sending drivers off the freeways to avoid traffic and through their neighborhood streets since it's technically faster. The end result are traffic jams and assholes speeding in residential areas.

I've actually seen this in south Tampa. I was in a traffic jam that looked like something out of NYC and it was on a residential street. I have no idea how people live there even get to or out of their driveways anywhere near rush hour times.

IMO this just drives up value for homes in neighborhoods that are built separately, off of any main throughway road.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-encino-waze-20180530-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

This is old news. I remember seeing a news report a couple months ago about this and there are local municipalities that are actually putting laws in place where they can ticket people that don't have a local address. They are setting it up such that tickets can be issued during rush hour only. I'm thinking somewhere in New York.

 

[MACHater02]

The President of my neighborhood association said she was going to contact Google a few years ago to stop vehicles from being routed through our neighborhood.

 

[cnsaguy]

I knew there was a reason I pay to live in a gated community.

 

[1ofTheseKnights]

This is old news. I remember seeing a news report a couple months ago about this and there are local municipalities that are actually putting laws in place where they can ticket people that don't have a local address. They are setting it up such that tickets can be issued during rush hour only. I'm thinking somewhere in New York.

"Land of the free"

 

[sk8knight]

Why do these people hate capitalism?

Capitalism is the beach community that is now charging a toll on their private road that is being used as a cut-through.

The real question is: why do these CA people (probably Democrats) hate socialism? The taxpayer body as a whole paid to use those roads; why shouldn’t everyone be able to use the roads. Better yet, distributing the traffic through the entire body of roads alleviates the maximum strain on any one road. Isn’t that the ideal situation?

 

[fabknight]

Better yet, distributing the traffic through the entire body of roads alleviates the maximum strain on any one road. Isn’t that the ideal situation?

Yes, as long as it isn't my road. I'm sure all these assholes using my neighborhood as a cut through would be the first ones to bitch about it if was reversed.

 

[UCFWayne]

I knew there was a reason I pay to live in a gated community.

i had a feeling you were a racist bigot xenophobe who liked big walls.....

build walls not bridges

 

[UCFKnight85]

This is old news. I remember seeing a news report a couple months ago about this and there are local municipalities that are actually putting laws in place where they can ticket people that don't have a local address. They are setting it up such that tickets can be issued during rush hour only. I'm thinking somewhere in New York.

I don't see how that would be feasible or constitutional.

 

[fabknight]

I don't see how that would be feasible or constitutional.

I've having a hard time remembering what logic they used to be able to implement it. Emergency vehicle access maybe?

 

[UCFBS]

Three (3) acres in the middle of 'Bama = ain't my ...

 

[Bob the Citronaut]

Can we also give tickets to bikers (both motorized and foot) that clog "hilly and scenic" back roads every weekend too? Noisy AF or slow AF. Go ride around your own neighborhoods you assholes. Every one of them act like they're a Hell's Angel or Lance Armstrong.

 

[Crazyhole]

Why do these people hate capitalism?

Why does capitalism hate them?

 

[Crazyhole]

I don't see how that would be feasible or constitutional.

It isn't on a few levels

 

[Knight_Light]

Interesting article. People in LA are pissed off since Waze is sending drivers off the freeways to avoid traffic and through their neighborhood streets since it's technically faster. The end result are traffic jams and assholes speeding in residential areas.

I've actually seen this in south Tampa. I was in a traffic jam that looked like something out of NYC and it was on a residential street. I have no idea how people live there even get to or out of their driveways anywhere near rush hour times.

IMO this just drives up value for homes in neighborhoods that are built separately, off of any main throughway road.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-encino-waze-20180530-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

This is old news. I remember seeing a news report a couple months ago about this and there are local municipalities that are actually putting laws in place where they can ticket people that don't have a local address. They are setting it up such that tickets can be issued during rush hour only. I'm thinking somewhere in New York.

It's been going on for years in cities like LA...where now small neighborhood surface roads are getting thousands of drivers cutting g thru based on info from Google Maps and Waze.

Some towns are putting in hundreds of road bumps and seeing if they legally can close if entrances.

This has been going on since Day 1 those apps went live.

 

[UCFWayne]

Why do these people hate capitalism?

thanks chemmie