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Do most people never take shortcuts to get around traffic bottlenecks? There's a shortcut that cuts through traffic lights near my area and most people don't know about it except for Uber drivers. I see the same folks on my neighborhood use the main street and never use this shortcut nearby.
Do most people never take shortcuts to get around traffic bottlenecks? There's a shortcut that cuts through traffic lights near my area and most people don't know about it except for Uber drivers. I see the same folks on my neighborhood use the main street and never use this shortcut nearby.
In some areas those shortcuts go through residential neighborhoods which tends to irritate the natives. There are a couple communities east of Annapolis that become shortcuts when the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is backed up. The County Police know this and will ticket people using those roads as shortcuts.
Also, if one person knows about a shortcut or workaround then so do thousands of other people, especially now with GPS, Waze, etc.
I've been known to ignore my GPS (whatever version it is) because I've watched most of the roads in my area being built over the past 50 years and know the original better routes when traffic is bad. Drives it crazy. And, yes, those routes are seldom used as everyone tends to use the "big new roads" even when they are jammed.
When we lived in California, our neighborhood had to petition the City to block off some streets to keep people from using the neighborhood streets as a short cut around traffic/lights. Shortly after the barriers went in, some group claimed they were racist barriers and the City took them out. Everyone of all races lost on that one. The whole thing was odd because the people cutting through were mostly white. However someone decided the barriers were designed to keep Hispanics out of our mostly Hispanic neighborhood.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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I use them all the time, however my wife calls them my "long cuts" because they usually are longer in distance, just not as backed up. I would rather drive 45 minutes at 40 mph with some signal lights than 30 minutes on the freeway at 0-20 mph.
If Waze reroutes me, I take a glance at Google Maps with 'traffic' enabled to see what the traffic jam looks like and pretty much always do what Waze says. I pretty much always have Waze up on any drive other than around town. It saves me many hours per year.
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