Originally Posted by
prathmann
But much easier if the cut-through is designed in from the beginning before all the land is assigned to particular private lots.
Unfortunately even that doesn't always work well. We currently have a fight going on between two adjoining neighborhoods about such a cut-through path. One of the neighborhoods is short on available parking space so some of the residents are parking in front of homes in the other neighborhood and walking home using the path. So the other neighborhood has filed petitions with the city asking for the path to be closed off with a fence. If that's done then kids wanting to visit friends in the adjoining neighborhood will need to get there via the 40+ mph arterial.
So of course their parents will have to drive the kids to the other neighborhood, then make another car trip to pick them up again. This will only make the traffic situation worse in both neighborhoods.
I think there is some momentum among city planners to provide alternatives to more driving. I hope that residents from both neighborhoods will get together to put pressure on planners to come up with a better solution than blocking off the path.