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Title: Woah! This intersection in New Jersey...
Post by: johndoe on October 26, 2018, 10:01:55 AM
I don't think I've seen anything quite like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6413652,-74.4159694,206m/data=!3m1!1e3

Anyone know of similar setups?
Title: Re: Woah! This intersection in New Jersey...
Post by: billpa on October 26, 2018, 10:16:21 AM
Looks like gsv was there when the cops were at a fender bender.

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Title: Re: Woah! This intersection in New Jersey...
Post by: jeffandnicole on October 26, 2018, 10:29:46 AM
You mean a 6 lane shoulderless highway cutting thru a circle with jughandles and RIROs all within 700 feet isn't standard in your state?

Title: Re: Woah! This intersection in New Jersey...
Post by: mgk920 on October 26, 2018, 10:11:04 PM
"ALL TURNS FROM RIGHT LANE"

:nod:

Mike
Title: Re: Woah! This intersection in New Jersey...
Post by: froggie on October 26, 2018, 11:00:07 PM
Quote from: jeffandnicole on October 26, 2018, 10:29:46 AM
You mean a 6 lane shoulderless highway cutting thru a circle with jughandles and RIROs all within 700 feet isn't standard in your state?

After reading this and before looking at the actual map link, my first thought was the example on Route 1 near Princeton...
Title: Re: Woah! This intersection in New Jersey...
Post by: NJRoadfan on October 26, 2018, 11:28:48 PM
I drive thru that mess multiple times a week. It usually works fine. Like all circle-cut intersections, its best to make the left directly onto the divided highway instead of looping around via the circle..... if you try that here you will cause an accident since people coming from Mountain Ave. aren't expecting the left merge traffic... at least when it isn't backed up with cars already.
Title: Re: Woah! This intersection in New Jersey...
Post by: jakeroot on October 27, 2018, 01:57:34 AM
The geometry certainly is unusual (kind of off-set at an odd angle, with streets having to curl to meet it), but as a concept ('Hamburger' roundabout), definitely not too unusual in New Jersey.

Credit for creativity, though! Modern intersection designers would likely make a four-way intersection at Raymond, and a 'T' at Mountain Ave, but that would require center turn lanes, which this clever intersection does not.
Title: Re: Woah! This intersection in New Jersey...
Post by: kevinb1994 on October 27, 2018, 12:18:44 PM
I rarely went through that setup when I was growing up in Somerset County (Franklin Township). One time was for a cousin's birthday party sometime in the mid-2000's.
Title: Re: Woah! This intersection in New Jersey...
Post by: ipeters61 on October 30, 2018, 11:41:46 PM
There's a similar one along US-1 in Princeton: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3315769,-74.637896,165m/data=!3m1!1e3
Title: Re: Woah! This intersection in New Jersey...
Post by: jakeroot on October 31, 2018, 02:59:06 AM
Quote from: ipeters61 on October 30, 2018, 11:41:46 PM
There's a similar one along US-1 in Princeton: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3315769,-74.637896,165m/data=!3m1!1e3

I always remember this circle because it's just down the street from the building where "House, MD" supposedly takes place (where the aerial shots are taken).
Title: Re: Woah! This intersection in New Jersey...
Post by: froggie on October 31, 2018, 09:30:25 AM
Quote from: ipeters61 on October 30, 2018, 11:41:46 PM
There's a similar one along US-1 in Princeton: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3315769,-74.637896,165m/data=!3m1!1e3

That's the one I'd mentioned upthread.
Title: Re: Woah! This intersection in New Jersey...
Post by: kphoger on October 31, 2018, 01:00:17 PM
Quote from: ipeters61 on October 30, 2018, 11:41:46 PM
There's a similar one along US-1 in Princeton: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3315769,-74.637896,165m/data=!3m1!1e3

Just a normal hamburger.  Those are all over the world.
Title: Re: Woah! This intersection in New Jersey...
Post by: kevinb1994 on November 02, 2018, 03:55:21 PM
Quote from: kphoger on October 31, 2018, 01:00:17 PM
Quote from: ipeters61 on October 30, 2018, 11:41:46 PM
There's a similar one along US-1 in Princeton: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.3315769,-74.637896,165m/data=!3m1!1e3

Just a normal hamburger.  Those are all over the world.

Except traffic was a mess when we were trying to get to and from the Camden and Trenton areas (and beyond). If it weren't for the NIMBYs they'd have grade-separation in that area already.
Title: Re: Woah! This intersection in New Jersey...
Post by: sbeaver44 on November 07, 2018, 05:36:56 PM
Quote from: johndoe on October 26, 2018, 10:01:55 AM
I don't think I've seen anything quite like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6413652,-74.4159694,206m/data=!3m1!1e3

Anyone know of similar setups?
I spy a Speed Limit 7 sign in a driveway near the SW part of the intersection on Mountain Ave

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