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?
@destructdisc LOL, this is like a very fucked up roundabout. It takes way more space and is way more dangerous.
dude bro, we need to drive at 90 MILES PER HOUR AT ALL TIMES!
As if normal roundabouts didn’t already take up enough space.
What do these folks have against roundabouts?
This is a roundabout. It’s just three roundabouts that only connect two roads each.
That’s just a big roundabout
So a roundabout for Americans?
Bloody hell. So much merging and switching of lanes. There would broken bits of car everywhere. The only upside would be the ability of bikes to go past the gridlock that would happen at a certain density of traffic. Also, why do so many people in the animation need to U-turn?
They need a U turn because they missed their exit at the previous insanely designed interchange
That’s how you go left. Basically the same as a Michigan left.
Came to say the same thing. So many lane changes needed in a short distance. People suck at merging at the best of times. This is a panel beater’s wet dream. That ‘engineer’ needs to go back to school.
This is why engineers need to go outside and experience the real world like the rest of us.
I’ve spent a fair proportion of my life around civil, structural, mechanical and process engineers, and found them to be some of the most pragmatic, sensible, intelligent and practical people you’ll even meet. The shit they design needs to work, or people die. Whoever designed this is not one of those people.
I’ve spent a fair portion of my professional career working for engineers of various types. The issue lies with the people who assume their intense knowledge of their chosen field of study means that they are experts in all fields of human existence. This pomposity leads to the stereotypical engineer who gets trapped into CAD models that don’t translate to the real world and get belligerent when that gets pointed out. Certainly I’ve met engineers who aren’t like that, but the stereotype exists for a reason. Perhaps it’s Electrical engineers that are the worst? I meet a lot of them.
Retired school teachers are another problematic customer who knows more than any seasoned journeyman.
I’ve always heard that in civil engineering the ones who design parking lots are the worst of them, based on the results we see in the world. Maybe this was from one of them accidentally handed something outside their normal work.
The people uturning are just trying to go straight lol. They have to turn right, merge left, u turn, merge right, and turn right, in order to go straight. Others are trying to turn left which here involves a u turn, merge right, turn right.
Because they’re on a stroad and the business they want to visit is on the other side
I assume the ‘engineer’ has never seen a road or drove a car, because even if we assume more infrastructure will solve induced demand, and even if everyone’s going at a nice 30mph, this intersection is gonna go at like 3 accidents/minute.
Already exists in better.
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.
A very elaborate roundabout for sure
A very roundabout way of building one.
This would gridlock so fast. Actually I think it would gridlock so incredibly hard that cars would end up abandoned after they ran out of gas from how long they were stuck.
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.
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.
Well this is a very roundabout way of getting places
Not even 10am yet and enough of car brain for the day 🤦♂️.
And yes I get it, some countries consider roundabouts (the ones used almost everywhere in the world) some black magic.
