"John Rowland" wrote in message
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Has my idea about leaving through routes but making them zigzaggy been
performed anywhere?

Not sure what you mean there. Chicanes or road narrowings
along a road to make sections single track certainly exist.
Estates with give-ways on the through route also exist.
Estates with the main route made into 2 cul-de-sacs, with
a left-right-left through side roads to join them, exist.

The going round the houses option keeps almost everyone
else on the main roads in North Stockport / South Reddish.