This should be a ton of fun come Monday.
Once I got past the shock, it makes sense.
WTF?
Perfect except they didn't take into account the idiots that will get lost and go the wrong way. 
The crashes should be spectacular.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV7Qz640OeM
DoctorBlade wrote: This should be a ton of fun come Monday.
Designed no doubt by the same variety of morons that design mall parking lots.
DoctorBlade wrote: Once I got past the shock, it makes sense.
Took me 3 minutes of following routes on the screen with my finger to figure it out. But you are right, it changes a lot of crossing a couple lanes of traffic into simple merges into traffic.
designed by these guys?
As cool as I think this design is (I have a minor fetish for bits of road where you drive on the opposite side from the rest of the local road network, don't ask me why), wouldn't it have worked better if they'd used a short over/underpass for the lane swap? This way if you want to go straight you have to sit through two traffic lights. That would probably suck.
This had to have been an idea floated at the local planning committee just to test if people were paying attention. Obviously, they failed that test 
I like it. This was obviously put forward by Darwinian thinkers. Thank god someone is advancing natural selection!
corytate wrote: I like it. This was obviously put forward by Darwinian thinkers. Thank god someone is advancing natural selection!
I'd love to be there monday with a camera. :)
Damn folks... just build some muthafawkin' clover leafs or put up some traffic lights next time... or both.
Yeah, if you look at for a while, it does make sense. Just looks strange because people aren't used to seeing something like this. I'd like to drive through that just because.
Amateur drift course!
E: I SPEEL GUT!
FAIL
Double overpasses and there would be no lights, no left turns and more fun.
That's a roundabout for beginners. Check out the "magic roundabout" in Swindon.
Keith wins.
Good lord.
Yep. They are planning that for the main street of my town. Only thing saving us right now is the economy, it's put the plan on hold, but only temporarily. We've got parts of it already. Messy.
The multi lane crossover traffic circle creates spectacular car crashes. Medivac pilots's are quite experienced landing helicopters there now.
Couldn't they just make it as it was with a normal traffic circle on either side of the bridge?
Sure, that road eliminates left turns, but it requires ALL traffic from one direction to cross in front of ALL traffic from the other. From a flow standpoint, that's a nightmare. Can't picture that flying anywhere where there is congestion.
ProDarwin wrote: Sure, that road eliminates left turns, but it requires ALL traffic from one direction to cross in front of ALL traffic from the other. From a flow standpoint, that's a nightmare. Can't picture that flying anywhere where there is congestion.
I thought the same thing. I read the article, and within they described testing the flow under various circumstances. They claim this solution resulted in better traffic flow. I think their programmer needs to be fired.
It's just another example of government doing what government does best: Waste taxpayer dollars.
when did they decide that intersections needed to be complicated? is there a large population of people that just got out of civil engineering school that need to justify wasting years learning about this stuff?
overpasses with on/off ramps are known to work and we are used to them.
That looks almost impossible to navigate while texting. I like it.
I like it. Normal intersections are annoyingly slow. Theoretically, it should shorten waits at the light as well, since more people can just move on instead of being caught at the light.
Reminds me of how they are changing some off-ramps around here.
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