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Waze and means
EDfTOR’S
LETTER
Collin Kelley
collin @atlantaintown-
paper. com
I recently started using the WAZE app to help me navigate
Intown’s traffic. For those who aren’t smartphone savvy, WAZE is
a community based app where motorists submit travel times and
route details (such as accidents or road work) to help other drivers
find the quickest way to their destinations. It’s very cool, and yet I
can’t shake an existential feeling of guilt.
First let me say that I hate driving a car. I was never one of
those teenagers hankering for an expensive car; I wanted to live
somewhere that made owning a car obsolete — like London, Paris
or New York. I have hopes that before I move on to the next
plane of existence Atlanta’s public transportation will rival those
aforementioned international cities. It’s getting there, but not quite
yet. I can walk to restaurants, shops, the supermarket, etc. but I
still need a car to go see family on the southside, get to INtown’s
main office up by the Perimeter and to parts of the city that don’t
require multiple train, bus, Uber rides before reaching the final
destination.
So, for now, I’m still driving and I’m always looking for something to help me
find the quickest route through Atlanta’s terrible traffic. I had been using Google Maps,
but all of my fellow driving friends kept talking about WAZE offering more real-time
information and
alternate routes to
avoid traffic jams.
The
first time I used
WAZE was over
near Emory when
I was running late
to a dinner date
and was stuck
in a tailback on
Clairmont Road.
I clicked on WAZE and it routed me down several small residential streets and had me to
the restaurant in 10 minutes rather than 20. Cool beans!
A couple of weeks later, I was stuck on westbound DeKalb Avenue during
rush hour as all the cars try to turn left at Arizona Avenue. Again, WAZE directed me
to the nearest side street and took me on a twisty but quick route through Lake Claire
and Candler Park. Other cars were ahead of me and behind me, no doubt also taking a
shortcut through these quiet, neighborhood streets. This is where my guilt set it.
I started noticing the “Slow Down” signs in yards, a look of dismay from
a woman walking with her toddler as the line of cars passed her on the sidewalk.
Neighborhood streets have long been used as cut throughs between main arteries, but
WAZE has upped the ante by showing drivers how to do it so easily.
And then, once again, I was stuck on Clairmont Road and WAZE directed to me
on to quiet Clairmont Circle to help get me over to North Decatur Road. Except in this
case, I was stuck in another jam as so many cars had turned onto the neighborhood street.
I felt badly for the homeowners simply trying to back out of their driveways or park on the
street. I can only imagine the noise level both inside and outside their homes.
I vowed to stop using WAZE, but I haven’t yet. What I am doing is leaving a
little earlier, avoiding rush hour meetups and finding my own alternate routes that might
add a few more minutes to my drive, but help me avoid traffic. Unless, it’s an emergency or
your boss is on the verge of firing you for being tardy again, being 10 or 15 minutes late,
while a social faux pas, isn’t the end of the world.
And please — PLEASE! — start using your turn signals and learning how to use
a four-way stop. This is learner permit 101 stuff y’all. If we all work together we can...
ahem... make Atlanta traffic great again. QH
4 February 2017 | DU
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