Your Home and Residential Traffic

By Jessie Mccafferty


As a member of your community, the roads in your neighborhood are important to you. The safety of pedestrians is also important. You might live in a neighborhood where a Homeowners' Association is in force, where you vote on varied changes and enhancements. If not, you can still talk to local council members and officers about changes like traffic control measures. Understanding what these changes entail will help you make a better choice.

Many HOA conferences cope with issues like busy traffic on residential side-streets. Often the complaint is not that a driver is speeding or driving recklessly. A rise in traffic disturbs many folks who aren't used to it. Unfortunately, a rise in traffic is often due to poor traffic control on highways and main roads. Congestion, unending road construction and poor design regularly send drivers to side roads in the expectation of bypassing delays.

You can talk to your local officers about enhancing the operation of nearby highways and main roads. Improvement there would probably lighten traffic on side-streets. But main road changes aren't assured, and regardless of whether implemented could take months or years. Sometimes, the best thing you can do is implement traffic slowing measures on your streets. The main thing is to avoid those that can make traffic problems even worse.

Two of the most widely requested traffic slowing measures are far more stop signs and speed bumps. These both have major flaws, and are commonly not agreed upon by a whole committee. This may cause friction in the neighborhood, as well as more traffic issues if installed. From issues like more congestion to higher upkeep costs for local streets, both these traffic changing methods could make matters worse.

A driver feedback sign is affordable, easy to install, simple to maintain and effective. It will not obstruct traffic, damage autos, create more noise or raise road upkeep costs. The sign is a useful ITS solution that can even be solar-powered for lower ongoing operating costs. This will help you sidestep issues while still slowing traffic on your streets.




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