The highway interchange by the mall has been distorted into a diverging diamond interchange. I was not expecting this at all.
Like so many, I screamed my way through the journey when the lane I was in, the right lane, pictured in red below, aimed me toward the other side of the overpass bridge into the opposing lane instead of going straight forward as it had for decades.
The video below makes a strong case for the diverging diamond interchange. You get a nice view of drivers driving smoothly into the opposing lanes. No one in the video is screaming “what the fuck.” They are paid actors and I assume also heavily sedated.
I don’t know if this is apocryphal but I hear tell that people have moved house after they find they have to drive over this nonsense to get home.
One response to “Diverging diamonds”
Ooof. That configuration of roadway looks like it makes sense if you are in a drone looking down on it from above, but confusing if you are on the ground driving it.
The video didn’t answer how the pedestrians fare. It looks like it would take a day and a half to cross the street.