This seems to be really common in the Bay Area and was one of the reasons I absolutely hated the city of Berkeley when I was there. You just can&#x27;t direct traffic like this if your infrastructure can&#x27;t handle the load to begin with; it&#x27;s selfish beyond belief.<p>In Los Angeles, people were using Fullerton Road like this for years. The county finally got funding and actually realigned it to a proper road for people to use to commute on and the original Fullerton Road is back to what it was -- a small residential street.