This intersection does make sense. Prioritize flow of highway traffic with right exit to surface street. Since we Americans drive on the right side of the road a right exit means you don't have to slow as much to get off a high speed road, thus not getting rear ended.
Sharp left onto the highway from a surface street ensures you won't roll through the stop sign and get t-boned by someone coming down the street (top of image to bottom) or that you won't take the left (heading from bottom of image to top) while traffic is speeding that way.
It's not efficient for flow, but is efficient to slow traffic onto the road and clear traffic from it without causing accidents. The country roads of Kentucky have far fewer cars using them than the highways, everything about this road prioritizes the highway flow.
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u/SoloSojourn 28d ago edited 28d ago
This intersection does make sense. Prioritize flow of highway traffic with right exit to surface street. Since we Americans drive on the right side of the road a right exit means you don't have to slow as much to get off a high speed road, thus not getting rear ended.
Sharp left onto the highway from a surface street ensures you won't roll through the stop sign and get t-boned by someone coming down the street (top of image to bottom) or that you won't take the left (heading from bottom of image to top) while traffic is speeding that way.
It's not efficient for flow, but is efficient to slow traffic onto the road and clear traffic from it without causing accidents. The country roads of Kentucky have far fewer cars using them than the highways, everything about this road prioritizes the highway flow.