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It looks like it's only the Ferd Fteenthousand having trouble. I'm down for road infrastructure being hostile toward oversized vehicles.
As a cyclist, I would be terrified of using that thing. Most car drivers can't even handle a conventional roundabout and routinely cut off cyclists being there with them. This one would be like 10 seconds in hell with cars coming from every angle.
The main problem is the two power poles constraining the space, and the lack of council space from property boundaries.
But a peanut shape will fix it. 90 seconds in MS paint. Civil engineering degree plz.
There's a similarly weird roundabout near me, we call the peanut, or the bean, and it works fine.
It's just like a regular roundabout undergoing mitosis
Are the two power poles cultural heritage? If not, they're easy to move as part of such projects.
I'm assuming that moving the power poles is also difficult due to property lines. I don't know the rules in Australia, but in the US you'd have to convince the property owners to grant an easement to allow someone to install a power pole and perform routine maintenance on it. The easement is attached to the property, meaning the next owner of the property would be subject to the easement whether they like it or not. This can have a bad effect on property values and (I think) can have more significant legal ramifications.
I doubt this... "roundabout" is the product of pure incompetence. To me, it speaks of a disconnect between the project's requirements and resources. There's still plenty of room for incompetence there, but if you give someone an impossible task, they'll generally do whatever it takes to tick the boxes in the "definition of done."
source: I'm an incompetent person who has ticked boxes and suffered for it.
EDIT: I should clarify that this is all based off of the assumption that the power poles don't have anywhere else they could move to without going on private land. Maybe that's a stupid assumption. Maybe you work with power poles frequently and I'm a gibbering fool. If that's the case, then I can only agree.
That's in Victoria Park, isn't it? How cool is that.
Was it a collaboration between Renault and gynaecologists?
Hey it almost works!
- Going straight: 4/4
- Turning left: 4/4
- Turning right: 2/4
10 out of 12. Does that count as a distinction or as a high distinction?
Breaking news — Revolutionary roundabout scores high marks in real world test
Sponsored by Renault
Honestly, at this point just plonk down a few traffic lights and pretend it's a normal intersection. At least assuming that center piece isn't elevated.
Judging by the way the cars drive over it I don't think it is raised. There are probably hundreds or thousands of intersections like this around the country no one has ever though to add a diamond shaped roundabout to. Apparently the image below is a shot of the intersection before the diamondabout was added:
They ruined a passable intersection to put that monstrosity in.
Reduced-conflict intersection? How about an increased-conflict intersection?
Rhombabout
For people who drive like a cunt
I thought it was AI slop, wow.
I assumed British, so we weren't too far apart.
I figured it was designed that way so people don't make that specific turn, meaning it wasn't actually intended to be a full roundabout. But instead of bothering to pay for any sort of infrastructure in the middle to physically prevent it, they thought painting lines would be enough.
There's no vertical sign forbidding a right turn tho
I didn't even think about it that much.
They obviously didn't either.
- Take a 4 way intersection
- Draw a shape in the middle of it
- Remove all signs and signals
- ???
- Roundabout
Whoever designed that intersection needs to be sacked.
In jail.
Also everyone who approved it.
Unless no such laws exist in the lawless country this is from.
It looks like a bugged out out roundabout in cities skylines. Maybe that's how they designed it.
Someone had a bit too much fun with the anarchy and move it mods.
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