General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

New Arizona neighbourhood will have no driveways, traffic signs, or cars

I read their medium post:  https://medium.com/culdesac/introducing-culdesac-3fbfe7c4219c

It's exciting to see a concept like this pushed forward, but it is hard to tell from the medium post how successful it will be. This type of thing obviously can work (it does in thousands of cities all over the world, just few to none here, we aren't special though, just have made bad choices), but it can also be done badly. There are plenty of 'tech bros' who eschew expertise from those in the field and implement their own beliefs as a result fail, because the field is more complex than they understand. The name "cul-de-sac" is already concerning, because that's the antithesis to a healthy non-car oriented community. That being said, there's plenty to like in their proposal as well, and some indications it could do well. There's also a reality that in many cases laws make it very hard to do this well as well.