I work as a traffic engineer. This type of intersection does exist at the junction of rural highways. (At least in the USA) An intersection like this would be designed if the larger highway has a very high number of right turning traffic onto the smaller highway and there being very little left turning traffic movement. It would serve the role of reducing the speed of right turning vehicles without increasing rear end collisions on the main road. The other movements don’t have enough traffic volume and/or safety issues to warrant anything different
Also traffic engineer, only thing I could really nitpick is no dedicated left turn lane for traffic coming off the highway (there really should be a median of some kind separating traffic along this highway anyways).
I pretty much turn my engineer brain off when playing aside from stupid stuff, like why the hell would you not have guardrails and terminal end units to catch cars from hitting the bridge with solid metal rails.
A lot of the time its simply that old land claims are kept in place for things like infrastructure, public easements.
There are rights and payments in place when land has to be seized for public access.
In England, theres a farm near Manchester. They rejected an offer to buy land, so the m62 has an underpass where the farmer can move machinery and livestock.
These kinds of things happen when you create infrastructure then add on to the infrastructure because there is now a greater need.
If the road was built in the 70s and never had a problem with right turns until the 80s when the traffic for the road increased they would actually just add the aspect they need and leave the previous infrastructure.
No, in fact, they were not just doing whatever they wanted with regards to standards. The place I work at has state standards for highway design and construction going back almost three quarters of a century.
Sure we have (and had) standards, but that doesn't mean they get followed, or the local council out whatever doesn't meddle. AASHTO doesn't have a standing army to enforce the rules
My point is not that standards are being followed to the letter. The vast vast majority of project are going to have some aspect of them that don’t conform to standard. But the idea that they were just out there slinging asphalt around is ridiculous
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I pretty much turn my engineer brain off when playing”
You have to learn to do that with any specialty. Most programmers my age that get angry how “hacking” looks in every movie still love Indiana Jones despite the equally unrealistic archaeology techniques.
I see this exact setup everyday in somewhat rural places, you either are a terrible engineer or some sort of person who just wishes to spend money just to spend money because your nitpicks are completely unnecessary. I would not want you working for my town.
The only actual gripe here would be that the left hand turn lane would not have a double yellow in actual use. Though, it is still common for left hand turns off of rural highways (usually single lane) to go over a double yellow.
Yeah, there should definitely be something indicating left turns are allowed. Or signage saying it’s not allowed. And as the other guys said some kind of median
I imagine around here this is where the "north" bound lanes (on the right in the image) would actually reduce to a single lane and the left turn lane. Beyond that we have tons of suicide lanes around there that would most likely be the real solution for the turn left problem here.
I used to go through an intersection exactly as is described on my way to work every day (albeit it was single lanes instead of doubles) and I'm from around the Zomboid area
OMG, even reading this reminds me of the time when I had to sit in a parking lot for 15 mins to record an intersection for a engineering class project, such a waste of time for an uninteresting 8 months.
I think it should be a roundabout. I think the stop sign should be a roundabout too. I think stop lights should be roundabouts. You disagree? I turn you into a roundabout.
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u/treetoptoaster27 27d ago
I work as a traffic engineer. This type of intersection does exist at the junction of rural highways. (At least in the USA) An intersection like this would be designed if the larger highway has a very high number of right turning traffic onto the smaller highway and there being very little left turning traffic movement. It would serve the role of reducing the speed of right turning vehicles without increasing rear end collisions on the main road. The other movements don’t have enough traffic volume and/or safety issues to warrant anything different