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But usually people don't go into neighborhoods they don't know. Locals might cut through a city but others won't. Now, with Waze and Google, literally everyone can cut through a city even though they've never been there.

This is the problem: these roads weren't build for it and the neighbors are left with busy streets, noise pollution and an increase in traffic.

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> But usually people don't go into neighborhoods they don't know. Locals might cut through a city but others won't.

But they do, if the jam is big enough. Traffic signs literally exist to allow it - their job is to tell you how to navigate roads you don't know. All it takes to detour through a neighbourhood you don't know is paying attention and having a little patience.

But aren't those public roads, made for everyone to use?

"Have access to" and "drive down at 35" are different things. Parks are public but you may not be able to enter one if there's some event and its massively over capacity.

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