I mean to thru-traffic. (Or should it be through-traffic?)
My street is purely residential, but it can be used as a scenic connector to a few places in my area of Orlando, so during the day I’d say it gets a few cars every ten minutes or so, more during mornings and evening rush hour. In the night it hardly gets any cars at all. It’s a pretty peaceful street.
How about y’all?
I live on a street connecting two streets that are each busy during the day and dead at night.
But basically it’s slow enough that even during the busiest part of the day you can jaywalk at a leisurely pace with room to spare.
And Jesus, you’re bored, aren’t you?
I live in what is basically a glorified alley. We don’t get much traffic - the street is ridiculously narrow and quite steep.
I’ve never in my life lived on a busy street, come to think of it.
Just as bored as you apparently.
My street is shaped like pi with two dead ends. It’s all residential and very quiet except for the occasional gun shots, sirens, and, on some holiday weekends, mariachi music.
I’m dealing with it by watching youtube videos. I’m running out of videos to watch, though.
I rotate through the dope, facebook, various blogs, youtube vids/music, and OKCupid. So I really only seem bored.
Three-lane, one way major road leading to one of the bridges off the island. Bumper-to-bumper during rush hour, slower during the day and nights, but still at minimum a car or six every few seconds (I’ve never actually measured and I’m not at home at the moment!) There’s a hospital down the street and a fire hall a few blocks over, so ambulances and fire trucks go by regularly.
Despite that, there’s plenty of on-street parking and the nearby park gives a sense of space and peace and quiet, oddly enough. I like where I live.
The road dead ends, but it doesnt stop Jehovah’s, the rancid meat man or the stolen fruit guy from pestering us. It also doesn’t slow down the neighbors who routinely drive by the dead end sign at 50 mph, I guess they ease off the throttle just past my driveway and coast into theirs.
Where I live is in a ‘conservation area’ that used to be laid out grid style, but various sections have been made dead ends to discourge people travelling through them and so it’s really quiet. Although we did have a police car come down a week ago. That was quite exciting.
We’re at the end of a cul de sac. We’re really the only ones that use the section of road right in front of our house. It isn’t uncommon at all for us to leave the car running in the middle of the street if we forgot something and need to dash in the house for a second.
Mine’s pretty desolate. It’s one over from a through route, so if you’re not going to one of about ten houses on the street, you’re probably not going to be on it.
It’s quiet enough that the UPS guy was able to use it as a mid-day sorting facility yesterday. He pulled up near my house, and started unloading stacks of boxes on the curb, shuffled things around and after about five minutes, loaded everything back in and took off.
We’re on a little court that sticks off a well-traveled road. So technically we’re on a non-busy street but during busy traffic periods we hear cars. We’re quite close to a highway and we hear a fair number of police and ambulance sirens during the night.
We’re moving to an area that’s a cul-de-sac sticking off another cul-de-sac which itself is stuck to a fairly quiet road. So it’s going to be the sort of place where the only cars on our street will be those of people who live on that street, or are lost.
I live on a country road. Given normal traffic patterns around here, it would be relatively quiet. Unfortunately, our section of the road can be used as a 10-minute conduit between two major roads in the area, so we get people bombing down the road at 75 mph, bearing down on farmers driving tractors doing 20 mph as they try to make a living. It’s a recipe for disaster, and I wish the township committee would throw up a couple of stop signs to discourage the through traffic.
We’re in a cul-de-sac. Every few weeks we’ll get a car come down the street thinking they can cut through to the main road a few hundred feet behind our house (despite the signs indicating they can’t), but otherwise the only cars we see are those that belong to the folks across the street. My young kids can play in the cul-de-sac all day and never see a car come down the road.
Very busy. It’s probably one of the busiest streets in Indianapolis as it goes straight through downtown. I’ve become somewhat of an expert on identifying sirens before I see the emergency vehicle.
It has, however, given me some great entertainment. I’ve seen a dog hit by a car and the resulting chaos, and I’ve seen a couple pretty bad wrecks. I’ve also seen some good arrests made. Of course I take pictures of it all to remember all the fun I’ve had living here…
My street (In the east end of London) is very quiet to motorised traffic, but the bicycles, jesus, sometimes crossing my road is like trying to wade through the Tour de France.
My flat faces a park which has a well-used bike path. Combine that with all the young trendy environmentalists that inhabit the east end and it feels like the place is turning into Amsterdam.
I have to look very carefully when I want to cross the road for this reason. Day or night.
We are the last home on a long, gravel, dead end road. Basically zero thru-traffic.
Moderate. It’s one way which is a plus. Still the townies use it as a short cut.
I live on a two block street that connects our two major North-South Roads. The traffic is so bad there is a four-way stop between the two blocks.