"The people who take a short cut to save time are probably not the ones who are willing to go 20 miles an hour looking for kids on bikes, house cats in roads, etc."
This is the problem.
Where I live, people taking shortcuts roll thru stop signs and bomb down side streets, peering at their phones, speeding up as needed to validate their choice of this time-saving shortcut.
The local cops (LAPD) have bigger things on their plate than traffic scofflaws, so it leaves residents with little recourse.
The abstract principles here ("it's a public road") don't translate well into what is in reality a complex situation.
This is the problem.
Where I live, people taking shortcuts roll thru stop signs and bomb down side streets, peering at their phones, speeding up as needed to validate their choice of this time-saving shortcut.
The local cops (LAPD) have bigger things on their plate than traffic scofflaws, so it leaves residents with little recourse.
The abstract principles here ("it's a public road") don't translate well into what is in reality a complex situation.