Double "reverse jughandle" U-turn facility on US 7/202

[Ned Weasel]

I could be wrong, but I think you guys are using the term "jughandle" differently than the FHWA documents.  I think they're calling a jughandle a design which converts left/U-turns to rights (and then, depending on the design, either more rights or lefts).  But the important part is to make a left you leave the road you start on from the RIGHT side of the road.  A median U-turn (in an R-CUT, J-turn, Michigan left, or superstreet) isn't a jughandle, as you're still making a LEFT turn (not a right like a jughandle).  The "loon" is just the extra pavement for large vehicles to get turned around.  I've seen them made with mountable curbs (ala a roundabout truck apron) perhaps to help direct smaller vehicles, but larger vehicles need the full area due to the offtracking.

That's why I propose using the term "inverse jughandle" for the island-defined variant of the originally posted traffic control device, the loon.  You're right that it's not a jughandle; it's somewhat the opposite, and in spatial/formal respects, it's the inverse.  I don't know of another term that describes this specific device, that distinguishes it from loons and actual jughandles.

[Alps]

Saw a loon on US 31 between I-196 and I-96 this weekend. No one with me in the car understood (all West Michigan roadgeeks, at that).