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Alternative Intersections - Drive Slower, Travel Faster!Have you ever been stuck blocks away from a busy intersection, then inched
forward watching the light ahead turn green and red several times before you even reach the front of the line?
This is frequently because a single traditional signal simply has too many jobs to do. As traffic grows,
left turn arrows are added for safety. But these arrows add inefficiency, complexity, and pedestrian uncertainty.
It all translates into fewer vehicles able to traverse the intersection.
To compensate, planners and engineers
have historically seen little choice but to resort to expensive and destructive solutions such as adding more
lanes or even bridges.
read more... Place-Making Form AND Engineering Function - Everybody Wins!Many designs, originally conceived to simply move more vehicles, also have
many amazing Place Making attributes that can support and even encourage quality pedestrian spaces and Transit
Oriented Development. Some, such the Town Center Intersection actually require streets to be narrowed rather
than widened in order to move more vehicles.read more...
Top 10 Reasons to Investigate Alternative Intersections
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