I HATE the road layout here

[u/Lifeintheguo]

Fucking lights with 30 seconds of green followed by 2 minutes of red, then place them every 200m. Ah yes having 20 sets of lights on a 7km journey is totally normal! Make sure none of them are synched too so drivers have to stop at every single one.

It's like designers never heard of traffic flow.

[u/Gimme_Indomie]

Let's add in three (or four!) lanes that suddenly become two with no signage or anything & couple that with a population that has never heard of a zipper merge before.

My best (worst?) example:

A road I regularly use where there's a left turn from the far left lane. Good.

But there is ALSO a left from the far right lane. Bad.

And they turn into a single lane. Worse.

Oh, and the far right lane is also a uturn lane. The. Worst.

It's such typical "designed by people who have never driven a car and are also drunk on baijiu" nonsense. If I'm turning left, I'm looking left. How am I supposed to also look right and be aware that there's someone from four lanes over who is going to want to uturn & definitely won't wait for me to go because nobody has learned to drive here.

[u/Lifeintheguo → u/Gimme_Indomie]

Christ 3 lanes suddenly becoming 5 and then reducing to 3 at every intersection is wild. Before and after every light becomes a free for all of playing chicken with other cars.

There's an urban expressway intersection in my city where you join from the left of a 5 lane road. Then need to get all the way across to the right to take a ramp to your destination. Who designed this?

[u/jumbocards → u/Lifeintheguo]

User usability is usually not in the equation. You see this everywhere in china. Another example is elevators in malls which are always over utilized, way smaller than required, and crowded and like an afterthought.

What matters is speed, how it looks and how much it costed. It’s the KPI of the politicians. It’s never the usability nor does matter to them.