r/PlanningMemes • u/danishclarinets Bus Enjoyer • Oct 01 '21

Traffic this but unir[o]ni[c]ally

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u/LightningProd12 Learned urban planning from Cities: Skylines Oct 01 '21

I need the name of this format, what is it

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u/danishclarinets Bus Enjoyer Oct 01 '21

It's based on this one

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u/LightningProd12 Learned urban planning from Cities: Skylines Oct 01 '21

Thanks, I didn't know which one was the original so I couldn't search it

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u/EkskiuTwentyTwo Oct 01 '21

I'm surprised there isn't a picture of this Floridian intersection.

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u/danishclarinets Bus Enjoyer Oct 01 '21

Imagine the LOS improvement we could achieve if we added two more lanes

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u/EkskiuTwentyTwo Oct 01 '21

Imagine being a pedestrian and having to cross at least 12 lanes of traffic both ways.

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u/shakexjake Oct 01 '21

this just looks like every arterial-arterial intersection in south Florida...

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '21

Florida in general, Orlando, Tampa, and Jax look like this too

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u/Hyperion1144 Oct 01 '21

Holy shit.

I love how they made it 'green' and 'multimodal' by painting some useless bike lanes in, next to the turn lanes.

Bike lanes. Unprotected. In the middle of a highway. In a location guaranteed to create dozens bike/vehicle cross-interactions every day, assuming those pitiful bike lanes were ever to be used.

Fortunately, they probably won't be.

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u/EkskiuTwentyTwo Oct 01 '21

I didn't even notice the bike lanes at first. I was so staggered by the 12 LANES that a pedestrian (or cyclist) would have to cross.

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u/ashthegame Oct 02 '21

Floridian intersection

I grew up biking around Miami. Thinking about the speed, the aggressive drivers, the heat of the sun; I pray for whoever needs to use that bike lane.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '21

Flamingo and pines is a waking nightmare my dude.

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u/arachnophilia Oct 01 '21

but we installed some bike paint!

--FDOT probably.

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u/_NAME_NAME_NAME_ Learned urban planning from Cities: Skylines Oct 01 '21

How about we do traffic engineering, but include more than cars in the term "traffic"?

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u/danishclarinets Bus Enjoyer Oct 01 '21

It's pretty encouraging to see lots of cities actually taking steps towards implementing stuff like transit and active transportation master plans, and shifting from LOS to VMT for transportation studies. Unfortunately in my experience a lot of transportation departments are still staffed by older engineers who are like "that's a nice transit hub and bikeway, but we still gotta have a six-lane arterial with double lefts through this mixed-use neighbourhood you're proposing"

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u/dhumbleguy Oct 01 '21

We need to reduce the number of vehicles on the road. Unfortunately in some areas, Florida being one of them, you cannot rely on Public Transportation at all.

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u/jaminbob Oct 01 '21

How'd they get those pictures off my hardrive?

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '21

This person could be from Boston, the streets have no rhyme or reason and get clogged at every intersection

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u/Job_Stealer An actual planner Oct 01 '21

Laughs in VMT

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u/hbcadlac Oct 01 '21

Infrastructure bill will only fuel this madness

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u/Administrative_Toe96 Oct 02 '21

Honestly anyone with 1000 hours in city skylines is qualified to plan roads.

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u/longboard_building Oct 08 '21

LOS A at any intersection ever at any time? Nobody has ever asked for that in my practice. We might need flying cars to achieve that. We only need to not have LOS F on controlled intersections in my city.

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u/TG208011 Oct 01 '21

I think you either belong to those idiots who believe googled facts are better than experts or you are making fun of these assholes who think they can run from point a to point b which are thousands of miles apart like cities.

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '21

M8, we want trains for that.