"John Rowland" wrote in message
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"Troy Steadman" wrote in message
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At either end of Road B are schools. They
have trouble recruiting teachers because
there is no affordable housing round here.

The solution?

At every "T" junction where the upright of the "T"
is a road open at either end, close the road
permanently at the junction and give the
end of the road, to a distance of neighbouring
houses + garden, to a local school to fill the gap
with affordable housing for their staff.

House prices in Road B and A rise because the
roads become nicer places, the main road is no
busier, just fairer, the school gets funds from
selling off or renting the property and keeps its staff,
who are themselves better off.

Everyone's a winner?

Except the people who live by the T, who would have their vista destroyed
and the value of their property slashed, and to top it all would gain a
teacher as a neighbour

And they'd face a much longer journey to work, having to go the wrong way
until the next street - or the next one after that, until they found a road
that was actually open in the direction they wanted to travel.

All this would do is to force more traffic onto the roads that are
designated as through roads, removing any redundancy and resilience in the
road system to cope with traffic jams caused by sheer weight of traffic
(including the extra that would have used the back streets) or by unplanned
problems such as road works or an accident.

If you live on a road, traffic will go past it - live with that fact!