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National Boards => General Highway Talk => Traffic Control => Topic started by: Brian556 on November 27, 2015, 11:55:01 PM

Title: Insane Half-Assed Intersection Modification in Bogata, Columbia
Post by: Brian556 on November 27, 2015, 11:55:01 PM
In order to continue straight, you have to drive off the pavement and over a curb that has asphalt chunks dumped over it to make it more passable.
It looks like the large building is new, and when they built it the street around it to circulate traffic around the building while failing to allow access for the straight movement. Looks like an engineering blunder that was not caught until it was built.

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https://www.google.com/maps/@4.6180453,-74.0841388,3a,90y,269.88h,63.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1ZBwauWCHHxIUW4P-yhYyQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Title: Re: Insane Half-Assed Intersection Modification in Bogata, Columbia
Post by: noelbotevera on November 27, 2015, 11:59:11 PM
A.K.A How Not to Reconstruct Intersections
Title: Re: Insane Half-Assed Intersection Modification in Bogata, Columbia
Post by: vdeane on November 28, 2015, 03:55:53 PM
Looks like they couldn't decide whether to allow the straight movement or not.  Moving further back, there is both a stop sign and a do not enter sign.
Title: Re: Insane Half-Assed Intersection Modification in Bogata, Columbia
Post by: DrSmith on November 28, 2015, 07:53:18 PM
Based on some of what I saw in Honduras, this is not surprising.  Things are done differently.  Money may have "disappeared" prior to finishing.

After the middle of the outbound bridge on CA-13 in El Progreso, Honduras collapsed from an earthquake, they closed it with a pile of dirt on each side.  Traffic had to figure out it went from a divided highway to two way traffic on the original inbound bridge.  That bridge itself seemed to have heaved some at the joints, but they kept it open to traffic. 

Many other places you saw where a project had just ended and was ready for the continuation. But no smooth transition, just the abrupt change