[villages07]

Cliff,

I can appreciate the problem from the perspective of the residents of this street. I guess what got my goat was the radical nature of the solution, basically setting up a verbotten zone for all but residents and their invited guests. The enforceability of this solution is daunting.

I guess I would have preferred a public information campaign first...with articles in the paper, perhaps advisory signs at the entrance to neighborhoods, asking nicely for "cut through" traffic to consider other routes to their destination. People of the Villages are by and large kind, thoughtful people. If such a gentle voluntary campaign would cut down on the volume by 20-30%, you'd all be much better off, enforceability would not be a problem, and there would not be the backlash we are hearing now.

Maybe the horse is out of the barn...but, just throwing these prohibited signs up without any advance warning or considering other less strident solutions seems a little heavy handed.