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On the odd interchange--that is interesting.

For bikers, maybe it's no worse if you just ride with the cars (which would take a lot of guts in an ordinary freeway interchange.) If you are riding on the sidewalk, it will be very nasty as drivers cut you off at the ramp.

For walkers, you have to cross four roads to get across the interchange. Two of these roads are ramps with sweeping curves, so people will drive through them very fast.

Overall it is probably no worse than an ordinary diamond interchange or SPUI that has those big sweeping ramps--you have to cross four roads in those situations too. But "probably no worse" is not saying much, as these interchanges are very rude to both bikers and walkers. If you eliminate the sweeping ramps (what do they call those? slip ramps?) then one only needs to cross two roads to cross the interchange and, if you keep the curb radius tight, then people actually have to slow down when they drive through it. But that of course is worse for the cars.

by Omari on Nov 30, 2009 4:49 pm • link • report

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