In my corner of Ward 5 there is already a large amount of traffic that passes through the neighborhood to avoid the intersection of Hamilton and Queens Chapel Rd. It seems to me that restructuring Hamilton St to reduce traffic speeds will increase the motivation to avoid this intersection, and the light at Queens Chapel and Lancer will make it easier for commuters to use the small neighborhood streets. I worry that some of the proposed new roads will turn other previously quiet corners of the city into heavily trafficked throughways. Large numbers of commuters passing through small residential streets at high speed is a good way to inhibit building community with others on your street, and is a hazard as well. Wouldn't a better goal be to redirect traffic flow around neighborhoods to maintain the neighborliness that many areas of Hyattsville have?