• Crossover interchanges (double diamonds and partial cloverleaves)

    From pikadominator312@gmail.com@21:1/5 to The Green Troll on Sun Nov 17 14:12:52 2019
    On Monday, February 4, 2013 at 10:33:26 PM UTC-6, The Green Troll wrote:
    In a diverging double crossover diamond interchange, what volume of
    traffic creates a need for stoplights? Where there is a low volume of
    cross traffic, it seems sufficient to require vehicles entering the
    crossover to yield to those exiting the crossover, and those on the
    ramps to yield to everyone. (On the other hand, if there is little
    traffic on the ramps, why fork them?)

    With hatched zebra crosswalks after the two yield signs on the cross
    road, pedestrians would be able to walk diagonally across the
    interchange, via the center median. With proximate signalized
    intersections (or well-marked hatched zebra crosswalks) on either side
    of the interchange, pedestrians could cross the road to reach the
    other two corners. (If unhatched ordinary crosswalks are used for this purpose, they leave no marking available for crosswalks designed only
    to make sure the pedestrian crosses in the right place and does not
    wander across a lane of moving traffic.)

    Is there a design for a double crossover using two quadrants? It might
    be used where a surface road rises to cross another surface road and
    an adjacent non-roadway transportation corridor (railroad or canal),
    with insufficient space between the lower road and the non-roadway.
    Both roads would crossover. The ramps would have some resemblance to cloverleaf ramps that merge together for most of their length, except
    that they would be one-way, not two-way, and would thus lack the usual
    double yellow line. One ramp would carry all upward traffic, the other
    all downward traffic. If the lower roadway was reflected by another on
    the far side of the bridge, the traffic could travel on the left for
    the entire length of the bridge before crossing back. Restricting
    heavy vehicles to the right lane crossing the bridge could minimize
    torsion (as caused by subway trains passing on the sides of the
    Williamsburgh Bridge instead of down the middle).

    -- Buster <http://www.rev.net/~aloe/transportation>

    Can a 3-level cloverstack's cloverleaf loops have 2 lanes? All the ones I've seen only have 1 lane for the loops.

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