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[...] In mid-January, the borough’s police force will close 60 streets to all drivers aside from residents and people employed in the borough during the morning and afternoon rush periods, effectively taking most of the town out of circulation for the popular traffic apps — and for everyone else, for that matter.
[...] While a number of communities have devised strategies like turn restrictions and speed humps that affect all motorists, Leonia’s move may be the most extreme response.
[...] Borough officials say their measure is legal, although it may yet get tested in court. Some traffic engineers and elected officials elsewhere say the move may set a precedent that could encourage towns to summarily restrict public access to outsiders.
Source: Navigation Apps Are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods Into Traffic Nightmares
Also: New Jersey town will close streets to fight navigation app traffic
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday December 27 2017, @01:24AM (2 children)
Closed to Non-Residents means it has become a private street, and the residents then become responsible for maintenance, repaving, etc.
You have a traffic problem because you have inadequate traffic control devices. Or your city allowed a sub standard street to be built.
Put in stop lights that make the router slower and all the flow through traffic goes away, and exiting your driveway is easy again.. Make it one way and half the traffic goes away.
Any restrictions that apply equally to every driver are fair. But handing a public street built with tax money over for the use of a tiny subset of residents is just wrong headed.
There's no mapping software that can keep track of residents only.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Disagree) by KiloByte on Wednesday December 27 2017, @01:43AM
And, what if I'm there to visit one of residents? What if a delivery goes there?
The police may or may not believe you — which has near-100% correlation with whether they're currently prowling for fines (even if your host is there to defend you, the cop will quote letter of the law). Also, if such an argument works, it will lead to drivers who want a shortcut getting trained to lie.
A street should never have such restrictions, unless it's gated away, with some sort of entry control — and, as you say, maintained by residents rather than taxes.
Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by sjames on Wednesday December 27 2017, @02:12AM
Those residents pay taxes to build roads too. They may not have even voted to change the rules. It may be that the extra services to deal with the inevitable accidents were costing the local government more such that this particular mitigation effort simply returns things to the status quo.
You seem to have quite the sense of entitlement to the side streets there.