The last photo in the article shows the real culprit. The road has six lanes and looks like a highway, which encourages people to drive at highway speeds. Then there are a bunch of businesses and side streets, which mean many vehicles enter and exit the road, and pedestrians cross it, which is bad on a road with people driving at highway speeds.
They hoped to solve the problem with signs asking people to drive slower. Speed enforcement might help a little, but it’s a patch over a bad design.
Yep, that’s a stroad for you. You fix those by either removing lanes and adding traffic calming measures, or isolating it from the surrounding businesses.
Really busy roads often do need a middle lane for turning without blocking traffic and being able to enter traffic when turning left. Roads with this problem are typically slow-moving in urban areas.
Yeah but if you don’t make it that wide, you can’t fit as many cars through the roads. And it’s not like there’s any other way to transport people around a city.
It’s called a highway. Highways are fine, you just need to decide if you have a highway, a street, or a road. If you try to do it all you end up with a dangerous mess.
And yeah, this is a situation that probably calls for 2 different throughways.
The last photo in the article shows the real culprit. The road has six lanes and looks like a highway, which encourages people to drive at highway speeds. Then there are a bunch of businesses and side streets, which mean many vehicles enter and exit the road, and pedestrians cross it, which is bad on a road with people driving at highway speeds.
They hoped to solve the problem with signs asking people to drive slower. Speed enforcement might help a little, but it’s a patch over a bad design.
Yep, that’s a stroad for you. You fix those by either removing lanes and adding traffic calming measures, or isolating it from the surrounding businesses.
Converting two of the lanes into one-way frontage roads seems like it would improve things a lot in that particular case.
Ooh, yeah. Frontage roads, roundabouts, and speed humps.
Yeah, that’s it. Talk dirty to me about your frontage…
That’s rather common? A middle traveling lane an exterior lane for accepting merging traffic. Even roads at 60kph are that width.
Really busy roads often do need a middle lane for turning without blocking traffic and being able to enter traffic when turning left. Roads with this problem are typically slow-moving in urban areas.
Yeah but if you don’t make it that wide, you can’t fit as many cars through the roads. And it’s not like there’s any other way to transport people around a city.
It’s called a highway. Highways are fine, you just need to decide if you have a highway, a street, or a road. If you try to do it all you end up with a dangerous mess.
And yeah, this is a situation that probably calls for 2 different throughways.
Yup, Phoenix drivers don’t believe there are pedestrians cause no one is crazy enough to walk around in that heat.