content: I am all in favor of enforcing the speed limits and they should be obeyed, but the people living on that road don't get to control who uses it. The main problem is that many of the roadways were designed many years ago and the flow of traffic has changed since then, some need to be expanded others no longer need the current capacity however we usually only repair what is there and not change to accommodate change. on occasions a road is expanded but I have never seen a road get shrunk to reduce the cost of maintaining it let alone be removed. The result is that cost only go up and no action to reduce occurs. Some cities are still laid out how they were for horse and carriages, and to correct that some buildings would have to go but they are old so people fight removing them for historical reasons then complain that the roads don't support the traffic. Changes need to happen. How do most larger cities end up dealing with this? One way streets, as a result you can see where you want to go 1 block over but you can't get there without going 5 blocks further in a loop to it. Smaller cities tend to be more spread out and if need be they can expand the road adding lanes, someone is loosing part of their front lawn but it is easier to swallow then loosing an apartment building then again roads are expensive to lay and that is a deterrent to the small cities. In the end if we want to fix traffic issues in cities it will cost money and some people are going to be inconvenienced, as long as we fight both of those the problem will exist and people will use any road they can to get where they are going and if they are public roads that what they are allowed to do. As to construction take that up with the companies that build the roads. why do they come out and put down cones then leave, then strip the top layer then take the machinery away, then bring in machines to clean it, then take those away, then bring in the machines to pave it. Why can't they put those machines in a line and run at the speed of the slowest one? In front of that are trucks/trailers laying cones as they go, the next day they pick up the cones when the pavement is cured. This would mean construction zones would be limited in length to how far they could go in one day instead of coneing out 2 months worth of work at one time and screwing up 10 miles of road for a whole spring. I know this won't work for a total tear out and redo or new roads as they have to level earth for that but 75% of the construction I see is just resurfacing.