Insane Intersections

[Occidental Tourist]

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.5113134,-90.1787283,18.21z

This intersection isn't really insane, it's just weird.

That one is pretty strange. I don't think I've ever seen a state highway end at an exit ramp off an Interstate highway before this one.

Yeah me neither. I haven't found anything else like that on Google Maps.

I've been all over and can't think of a single one, that makes this one insane.

It's a county route, not a state route, for whatever that's worth.

[Occidental Tourist]

Link TL-SG108

This eight-way intersection in Detroit: https://goo.gl/maps/hgdQ7zQGKc22 (Tireman is the only road remotely resembling a major road, and one of the legs was cut off at one point, but the curb markings are still there)

I wonder why they added the jog in the northwest quadrant.  Old maps and aerials show that it was originally straight.

[davewiecking]

Link TL-SG108

This eight-way intersection in Detroit: https://goo.gl/maps/hgdQ7zQGKc22 (Tireman is the only road remotely resembling a major road, and one of the legs was cut off at one point, but the curb markings are still there)

I wonder why they added the jog in the northwest quadrant.  Old maps and aerials show that it was originally straight.

A way to enforce the No Trucks sign?

[catch22]

Link TL-SG108

This eight-way intersection in Detroit: https://goo.gl/maps/hgdQ7zQGKc22 (Tireman is the only road remotely resembling a major road, and one of the legs was cut off at one point, but the curb markings are still there)

I wonder why they added the jog in the northwest quadrant.  Old maps and aerials show that it was originally straight.

Back in the 1970s I was an telephone installer for the local Bell company.  Part of my territory was NW Detroit and parts of east Dearborn, and I traveled through this intersection often.  The jog on Littlefield was added as some sort of park beautification effort 'way back when.

Also, back then this intersection was served by an ancient 8-way traffic signal that gave an advance yellow for Tireman and Miller just before the signal switched from red to green.  Never saw another one like it.

[Avalanchez71]

I-459/US 280 southeast of Birmingham. This entire intersection needs to be nuked. The 500 ft of 4 lanes merging off 459 onto 280 is ludicrous and has to be experienced and not explained to see why. 


iPhone

Just looking at the route needed to take to get to the Cracker Barrel is nuts.

That intersection isn't that bad and yes I have experienced it.  I've stayed at one or more of the hotels over there.

[sparker]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is it a trumpet?  Is it a parclo?  No-- it's a trump-clo!  Now watch the ex-president try to claim naming credit!

[jakeroot]

It's really not that insane anymore. They added a new ramp to the mix to eliminate whatever weaving remained with the old setup. Now it's honestly quite good.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4417476,-86.7299631,787m/data=!3m1!1e3

[froggie]

^^ IMO, 1st Pl does not need to exist...that would simplify the intersection.

Second, I don't see how a roundabout would be feasible there since 1st St is one-way and the intersection happens right where the two off-ramps to 1st St (from SB 75 and WB 244) merge.

[mgk920]

I'm amazed in that nobody has yet mentioned the US 20/US 61/US 151 mess in downtown Dubuque, IA.



Mike

[froggie]

^ Perhaps because it's simply a series of regular 4-way and T-intersections.  Although it's annoying making the connection between the two, there's nothing really fancy about that.  The OP also specified they were looking at regular roads and not "freeways and expressways"...

[MCRoads]

Link TL-SG108

This eight-way intersection in Detroit: https://goo.gl/maps/hgdQ7zQGKc22 (Tireman is the only road remotely resembling a major road, and one of the legs was cut off at one point, but the curb markings are still there)

I wonder why they added the jog in the northwest quadrant.  Old maps and aerials show that it was originally straight.

Back in the 1970s I was an telephone installer for the local Bell company.  Part of my territory was NW Detroit and parts of east Dearborn, and I traveled through this intersection often.  The jog on Littlefield was added as some sort of park beautification effort 'way back when.

Also, back then this intersection was served by an ancient 8-way traffic signal that gave an advance yellow for Tireman and Miller just before the signal switched from red to green.  Never saw another one like it.

Eight way signal?! What!!