Originally Posted by sauerwald

Government money for roads is to allow for transportation - with a cul-de-sac, it turns what could have been transportation infrastructure into what is essentially a shared driveway for a group of homes. If I were in charge, no public money would be used to build or maintain any road which is not a through road. I suspect that suburban cul-de-sacs would become far less popular if people had to pay for them themselves, rather than expecting the people that they are excluding from their neighborhood to support it.