This is just a flattened highway interchange.
Also, holy shit so many combination enter/exit lanes, so many potential points of high-velocity conflict!
Exacrly my thought, those already exist and work wonderfully, why try to make them flat and 100 times more dangerous in the process?
Around my area we have combination highway on ramps and exits where the lane for getting on immediately becomes the next exit. They are incredibly stressful and dangerous given just a tiny bit of traffic, everybody is frantically trying to merge on and off a short strip and accidents happen all the time. This intersection turns the entire road into that design lmao, they’re off their ass if they really think this design is any good
I know right, it’s basically just a roundabout with added dangers.
Yeah that was my first thought too. They have those where I live, they’re usually like a quarter mile long but all of the action usually goes down in the first 100 feet or so, mega conflict zone.
So a roundabout for Americans?
That’s just a big roundabout
Those 180° turns look way too tight for semi-trailer trucks. Even the vans are drifting there.
And all those single lanes, merging, and tight turns are a recipe for congestion.
A proper roundabout would work much better, waste less concrete, and probably take up less space.
This is not traffic free. This does not account for the vast majority of people who don’t know how to drive or merge on a highway. This would fail every real world trial. It can be said there is some beauty in its arrogance though.
Edit: this is clearly (hopefully) satire given those U turns of death in the middle of a highway interchange that cannot be used by the one thing that needs it the most for this to be commercially viable: semi trucks.
Edit 2: I just noticed this isn’t an interstate highway intersection but just your regular ol state road intersection. I ate the onion… I hope it was satire at least.
Well this is a very roundabout way of getting places
Thoughtful of them to provide extra U turns so that people approaching this monstrosity can nope the fuck out.
This looks like hell…
It’s only one lane of traffic either way and you’ve got to merge in and out of two separate traffic flows in a short distance just to go ‘straight’ through to the other side.
I used to commute an hour to work every day, each way, and the worst part was cross-merging traffic, exactly like there are 4 of in this design.
This looks like something RealCivilEngineer would do for a bit, lol. I think I see a bit of the strongest shape in there.
It’s wonderful yes but relies on people leaving space to allow zippering.
Unfortunately everyone is a bastard and goes bumper to bumper.
Seen from a traffic planning perspective, these lane changes alone would cause more incidents than 10% of drivers running a red light crossing.
This was obviously designed with the assumption that people know how to drive without getting in one another’s way.
looks to be firmly ‘in theory’
It almost exists as the Michigan left
