Jersey Jughandles

[Ian]

IIRC, US 1 has a few jughandles in Narragansett, RI.

[mightyace]

PA 100 has some between the turnpike and its southern end.

I think US 202 south of where the freeway ends near West Chester, PA and the Delaware line has them too.

and the US 11/15 ones were adding in the upgrading to a 4 lane "poor man's freeway."  The jughandles would be even more useful on the NB side but there usually isn't enough room between the road and the Susquehanna.

[froggie]

There's a few here and there in New York...I recall one on NY 2 at a state park entrance east of Troy.

[jwolfer]

Again a well designed configured left-turn signal/turning lane would solve the problem.  And urban areas such as LA, Phoenix, Atlanta and Miami all have roads with no jughandles.  I would like to see some statistics comparing accident data, traffic volume etc.  But I am not a traffic engineer, just an interested layman

The Miami area has a couple (linked above), not that that invalidates your point. Actually there are a couple on US 27 (Okeechobee) as well, but using local streets to make the turns.

There is 1 jughandle in Jacksonville.  ON Riverside Ave coming off the Acosta Bridge.  There is still a left turn lane for traffic coming from downtown and the jughandle is for traffic coming off the bridge so you dont ahve to cross 2 lanes of traffic to make the immediate left

[Alps]

IIRC, US 1 has a few jughandles in Narragansett, RI.

That is correct.  Further to the west it has median U-turns instead.  Very smooth ride, but a little too long to be an alternate to I-95.  (RI 3 works well enough for that.)

[njroadhorse]

I believe PA 309 has a few in Montgomeryville, definitely at PA 63 and Stump Road, but I can't remember where else.

[SignBridge]

Penna. also has jughandles on US 13 in the Levittown/Bristol area of Bucks County.

Like most traffic solutions, jughandles have their pros and cons. I agree with the writer who pointed out the problem of long delayed left turns from the jug handle into the side road in the Princeton, NJ area on Route 1. I've been caught up in that situation too in the afternoon rush-hour. Friends of mine used to live in Princeton Jct. but moved to less populated Columbus because of the traffic congestion in the US 1 corridor in the Princeton area.

And BTW, I have been in that general store in the Columbus hamlet. What a throwback to an earlier era! (Chuckle!)

[nyratk1]

Long Island has a jughandle on NY 347 at NY 111. It's not the greatest, although from what family members told me, it was worse as a regular intersection.

[Quillz]

I remember coming across a few in Portland over the summer and thought it was kind of a neat idea. It would take me a while to get used to it, but I do think it has some major advantages when it comes to safety, although whether or not it's truly safer than a protected left turn I suppose is a matter of debate.

[mightyace]

^^^

Maybe, maybe not.

Does anyone know of any studies comparing a jughandle to a protected left turn?

[Alps]

The main advantage to a jughandle is having one less signal phase (avoiding mainline lefts), thus affording more green time to everyone but especially the main arterial.

[froggie]

Downside is that jughandles tend to require more right-of-way than a traditional intersection, nevermind the congestion issues where the jughandle meets the side road.

[roadman65]

How about US 4 Business in West Rutland, VT?  The intersection where it becomes VT 4A and the ramp leading to US 4 Mainline uses one.

[Alps]

How about US 4 Business in West Rutland, VT?  The intersection where it becomes VT 4A and the ramp leading to US 4 Mainline uses one.

VT 7A had had one at US 7 exit 2, but it's now just a standard left turn (no traffic to warrant a jughandle).

[Dr Frankenstein]

In Vermont, US 2 has some jughandles through the Lake Champlain Islands.

[shadyjay]

And so here we still have what, as far as I know, is the only jughandle in the state of Connecticut. And a lane in each direction that through traffic will want to avoid.

There are a few others in CT - these come off the top of my head:
1.   CT 4 (Farmington Ave) in Farmington, just west of I-84 Exit 39
2.   CT 71 at I-84 EB ramp at Exit 40
3.   Berlin Turnpike at Route 9 SB ramp at Exit 21:

When I used to travel for work in NJ a lot, it took some time to get used to the "jersey jugs", but in the end, they do keep traffic moving and seemed pretty easy to figure out.  The ones that were a bit confusing was being on (example):  Road A WB wanting to turn onto Road B SB, having to pass through the intersection and cross Road B, then "exit" onto Road B and turn right to enter Road B SB, only to wait at the signal with Road A.  I used to joke that you can't make a left turn in the state of NJ!

[wytout]

Sturbridge MA, US 20 EB, jughandle:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=route+20+sturbridge+ma&aq=&sll=16.636192,-95.712891&sspn=43.318174,78.662109&ie=UTF8&hq=route+20&hnear=Sturbridge,+Worcester,+Massachusetts&ll=42.11139,-72.092806&spn=0.001005,0.002401&t=h&z=19

[Alps]

MA has several on the MDC (now DCR) parkways around Boston. Soldiers Field Rd. has one I know of.

[Ian]

How about US 4 Business in West Rutland, VT?  The intersection where it becomes VT 4A and the ramp leading to US 4 Mainline uses one.

VT 7A had had one at US 7 exit 2, but it's now just a standard left turn (no traffic to warrant a jughandle).

US 4 at VT 4A just east of the state line in Fair Haven used to be a jughandle, but that was taken out sometime in 2009.

[connroadgeek]

US 1 S/B in Greenwich CT uses a jug handle at Indian Field Rd.

[roadfro]

There is one in Las Vegas, NV. It is part of the I-15 interchange with Charleston Blvd (SR 159), although the jughandle itself is located off of Grand Central Parkway to facilitate access from Charleston Blvd to I-15 north. This one is interesting in that the intersecting road is only the I-15 ramp and the jughandle itself.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Grand+Central+Parkway+and+Iron+Horse+Drive,+Las+Vegas,+NV&aq=&sll=36.160313,-115.158541&sspn=0.011503,0.022552&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=S+Grand+Central+Pkwy+%26+Iron+Horse+Dr,+Las+Vegas,+Clark,+Nevada+89106&ll=36.16098,-115.158112&spn=0.005752,0.011276&t=h&z=17

This jughandle was originally constructed because a stadium was proposed to be built nearby and the jughandle design was anticipated to be able to handle the traffic best. The stadium plans have long-since been shelved. Currently, the jughandle is anticipated to be removed as part of a greater reconstruction of the Charleston Blvd interchange under NDOT's Project Neon on I-15.

[US71]

Here's an Arkansas jughandle:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Fayetteville,+AR+72701&aq=0&sll=25.971966,-80.233939&sspn=0.000717,0.001034&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Fayetteville,+Washington,+Arkansas&ll=36.122689,-94.144104&spn=0.002578,0.004136&t=k&z=18

[andytom]

A couple from Portland, OR:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=45.490947,-122.655154&spn=0.002817,0.007789&t=k&z=18

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=45.438693,-122.753162&spn=0.00141,0.003895&t=k&z=19

[ftballfan]

I'm not sure if this can be considered one, but M-44 at West River Dr outside of Grand Rapids:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=&daddr=&geocode=&hl=en&mra=mr&sll=32.71673,-117.16293&sspn=0.007348,0.019891&ie=UTF8&ll=43.064389,-85.57987&spn=0.00319,0.014033&t=k&z=17

M-44 runs south to north, West River Dr runs west to east and changes names to Cannonsburg Rd at M-44.

[Sykotyk]

PA-18 between Greenville and Hermitage has jughandle exits (no lefts on the mainline permitted).