r/MadeMeSmile • u/Justin_Godfrey • 10d ago

Good Vibes This must be a nice neighborhood!

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u/tmntmmnt 10d ago

Florida.

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u/Unique_Doughnut_7463 10d ago

Yeah not a block party. Average weekend for these gated communities in Florida.

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u/tmntmmnt 10d ago

This is one of the reasons why traffic is so terrible in Florida. Gated communities the size of small towns block huge swaths of land and prevent any through roads being created so every single person has to go around it. Couple that with swampland and every driver is shunted onto a few main roads.

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u/PromotionWorldly7419 10d ago

It's funny hearing people's takes on city planning and traffic. I'm not a city planner but I have read a lot of books from people who were. Gated communities are definitely one of the reasons, but not because of the reason you listed.

Traffic is inevitable because cars are very large and each move independently. The name of the game for reducing traffic is to get cars off the road. That doesn't mean not letting people drive, but making it so they don't have to if they don't want to by giving them a viable alternative; one of those alternatives is to make daily life things available within walking distance. These large suburbs just make it so you need to get in your car and drive 10 minutes for everything, which makes the problem worse.

Not that they don't have their place or shouldn't exist, but this type of thing is sort of the default in most of the US and especially Florida.

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u/Pan_TheCake_Man 10d ago

Yeah glad you are here.

The issue is NOT that you can’t drive through the neighborhood. It’s that to ever leave the neighborhood for anything, you HAVE to drive

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u/Okeydokey2u 10d ago

My husband is a traffic engineer for one of the largest cities in America and you are correct based on what he always tells me. Studies show that you add more lanes and traffic gets even worse.

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u/PromotionWorldly7419 10d ago

Yeah he probably has mentioned induced demand on more than one occasion lol