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I prefer roads in towns/cities when they are left like they were designed to be used (i.e. 2way grid pattern streets with back streets etc). I feel that last few years even small towns have been thwarted by overly complicated expensive schemes to 'manage' traffic, but what they actually seem to do is bottle neck all the traffic from all the different grades of roads into one way systems where drivers then feel they have to step on the loud pedal to claw back some of their wasted time.
My vote is for returning streets to how they were originally built, with the odd traffic light where REALLY needed + ped crossing etc. So many places now you'll be at an empty deserted street @ 3am waiting at a needless red light for minutes for no good reason.
Having backstreets allows some traffic to take short cuts, and the rest use a broader array of streets.
All my local towns/ cities have very quickly (less than 5yrs) gone from pleasant places to drive/ walk/ cycle around to traffic riddled hell holes that I now just avoid completely, thanks entirely to bad planning/ road re-design.
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