<VV> Maps

[David S Malcolm]

NJ was famous for them as well as "jug-handles". Whenever possible with 
road construction they are being removed or altered.

The jug-handle is a great idea that the rest of the country doesn't seem 
to get.

David Malcolm


On 4/6/20 3:40 AM, Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs wrote:
> Roundabouts. That's the word you're looking for. It is a standing joke 
> in England that Americans can't deal with them! But they are great - 
> once they become more familiar on roads in the US, drivers will love 
> them. Traffic can keep flowing without all the stop-start of an 
> intersection.
>
> On 2020-04-06 04:30, Joel McGregor via VirtualVairs wrote:
>> They just started installing traffic circles here a few years ago but
>> they have quite a few now.  I love them but it does seem like most
>> people like to stop for them which completely defeats the purpose.
>>
>> Joel McGregor
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> One of the things which gets confusing to many people is it seems
>> traffic engineers have new ideas on what makes a good intersection. It
>> takes several years for those new ideas to make their way into common
>> usage and people to start understanding how to use them. The current
>> new ideas in the US are the Diverging Diamond which crosses all
>> traffic over each other before and after an overpass so that turns
>> onto an interstate are not crossing oncoming traffic. The other
>> current fad here (common in much of the rest of the world) is the
>> traffic circle. Unfortunately many that I see are too small.
>>
>> Mike Kost
>>
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