I like how they made two new roads and tore them up then redid every existing road twice. Instead of just shutting down the intersection and doing it that way. Would have been far cheaper and faster.
yes, but the amount of havoc that would cause elsewhere was probably not worth it- some intersections are too critical to be able to close down longer than a weekend
It seems overly complicated because they had to keep traffic flowing through the intersection with minimal downtime. I'd imagine it might be just a little difficult keeping an intersection open when you also have to change basically everything about the intersection.
Building temporary roads is completely normal when constructing a new intersection with a lot of traffic that needs to keep flowing during construction work
Cocoanut Ave one block to the east (500ft) has the same number of lanes and goes completely parallel north/south. And the west side of the roundabout is a dead end without any buildings at the time of construction.
As an Australian, I thought the exact same thing. It's like they've tried to idiot proof it way too hard, and so it takes up way too much space as a result.
This area may get a lot of large truck traffic and the radii need to be of a sufficient size for them to navigate it without just plowing over the center
@@hooimeijerf It may come down to vehicle size and maneuverability differences then, or we just have larger standards. I'm not sure. This is about the right size for our roundabouts.
This is in a growing area of florida, they are clearly building this up for future expansion. They should have just redirected the road once though, paving and repaving made no sense, but then again, this is in Florida.
The roads approaching from the bottom and right have dedicated lanes for each direction (left lane turns left around the whole circle, middle goes straight, right slips right without entering the circle). The top and left roads have two lanes: one for going straight or turning left, and the other for a slip right turn)
...And it's missing half the turbo part. Like seriously why are there two left-turn lanes on the road from the right? It's not like you can't make a roundabout with the ability to change lanes to make a U-turn
it's not ineficcent when you have to build one on an intersection that's existed far longer than the development has, and have to allow traffic to flow at the same time. Americans love roundabouts which is why we're building more. ignorant euro comment as usual
To construct them efficiently you have to block the traffic which no one wants because the cars will all seek other ways in their residential side streets.
In my province we have a few of these turbo roundabouts and at first they were uncomfortable to drive but quickly the locals catch on. In the summer you expect to find some slow confused drivers (mostly Americans imo) but you simply accomodate and maybe honk at them. My serious critique is the missing island on the bottom 3 lane.
I’m from Belgium and when I just got my license, first thing I did was drive to NL, they have these turbo’s everywhere (makes sense since it was invented there) but it freaked me out the first time as well 😂
How did the designer manage to ruin the simplicity of the design of a roundabout ? And why would they make entering lanes tangent to the circle thus making the design very much a design communicating yielding. Are they under the impression that because there is written "yield" that it will magically make people disregard the fact that the road is clearly made to keep the speed of entering cars ?
So it is diffuclt to make out from the camera angle, but there are traffic lights. In the USA, generally that would make it a traffic circle, not a roundabout.
in the US we yield to all those in the roundabout. When it's safe to enter you enter, when it's not safe you don't. It's not that hard. This roundabout is a traffic improvement over the lighted intersection that was previously present. Additionally, because it's a yield, if you are approaching at speed and it is already safe to enter; you enter. You don't need to slow down. It's not like each entrance has a stop sign. You only yield when it is not safe for you to enter
This is a problem with North American roundabouts, the lanes already point into the direction of the counter-wise flow of traffic which also makes it harder to see oncoming traffic on your left. The Netherlands has the best roundabouts so i suggest you take a look at those.
this was completely idiotic. such a monumental waste of time, money, and resources. shutting down the intersection and completing the job in a week would've been ideal
@@ilgiuse7728But it does? Check the beginning and the end at the start of the roads at the top and the bottom of the screen. The beginning has 4 lanes at the top, 5 lanes on the right, and 5 lanes at the bottom counting the slip lane. At the end, there are 4 lanes at the top, FOUR lanes on the right, and 5 lanes at the bottom including the slip lane. It actually has less lanes!
This is not a roundabout these are r compöicated intersections in one, A roundabout is one way jas no traffic lights and the cars in the roundabout have priority exit before all others can enter
@@DwightKShrute0 a roundabout - a road junction that traffic moves in one direction around a central reservation to another road known as an “exit” Therefore, that road isn’t a roundabout since traffic isn’t moving in one direction, it’s a T-junction
I mean, it’s a step in the right direction and definitely MUCH safer then a intersection, it may be built for trucking and that’s why it’s so large (just a theory) but either way it’s better then doing nothing.
@@lEGOBOT2565 nope. Visited plenty of countries and roundabouts like these are really safe for pedestrians, US road design just sucks. i.ytimg.com/vi/FR5l48_h5Eo/maxresdefault.jpg
*The slip lanes are unnecessary* , they encourage fast traversal, which undermines safety. This roundabout is monstrous in a bad way. The blame for Wright Construction may be for the amount of destruction involved, but likely not for the excessive design
There are no slip lanes. The shape makes it look like there are slip lanes but right turning cars actually have to yield to oncoming traffic from the roundabout.
turbo roundabouts were invented in the Netherlands, they're more safe and more efficient than normal circles although i'm not so sure about this one in particular with the slip lanes and seemingly high-speed design
@@intervrt In the US suburban stroads like this one through Fruitville used to be 45 mph country roads and speed limit guidelines mandate a legal limit the same as or higher than the travelling speed of 85% of the traffic.
@@user-uo7fw5bo1oThis is 1 turbo roundabout out of thousands already built in the US. I suggest not making a clown out of yourself in making blatant generalisations
The intersection didn't even need a roundabout, even when they closed so many lanes traffic was fine let alone build such big and fast and complicated roundabout
That's a multi-lane traffic circle which are considered dangerous. A modern roundabout is a single lane traffic circle with 10 mph - 15 mph operating speed using yield merge traffic metering. Those are the only traffic circles that will be included in roundabout statistics. The main road would have likely been served better by a good traffic light designed intersection. Ponderous amounts of left turning traffic from two roads of comparable volume are candidates for roundabouts. Roundabouts should process traffic faster than a alway stop controlled intersection. People pushing for roundabouts are secretly pushing for traffic. calming devices to discourage through traffic.
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Someone had too much fun with the intersection marking tool mod
this is too real
Cities skylines reference 😂
LMAO
Lmfao
i know this all too well
I like how they made two new roads and tore them up then redid every existing road twice. Instead of just shutting down the intersection and doing it that way. Would have been far cheaper and faster.
yes, but the amount of havoc that would cause elsewhere was probably not worth it- some intersections are too critical to be able to close down longer than a weekend
@@pizzaivlifethat’s what happens when driving is the only mode of transportation being invested into.
@@miles5600 Yeah they'll build the same road three times but deem it too expensive for any form of good bike infrastructure
@@Sporgan yup exactly
@@Sporgan Or they'll build some kind of bike infrastructure that they can snag for another car travel lane later on. 😞
That was way too overly complicated.
They built two temporary roads, completely bulldozed everything else
It seems overly complicated because they had to keep traffic flowing through the intersection with minimal downtime. I'd imagine it might be just a little difficult keeping an intersection open when you also have to change basically everything about the intersection.
Building temporary roads is completely normal when constructing a new intersection with a lot of traffic that needs to keep flowing during construction work
Cocoanut Ave one block to the east (500ft) has the same number of lanes and goes completely parallel north/south. And the west side of the roundabout is a dead end without any buildings at the time of construction.
As a dutch person, this is way too big for that many lanes.
As an Australian, I thought the exact same thing. It's like they've tried to idiot proof it way too hard, and so it takes up way too much space as a result.
@@AlexanderRafferty Americans never taught to use a roundabout when learning to drive unlike Australians and Europeans.
This area may get a lot of large truck traffic and the radii need to be of a sufficient size for them to navigate it without just plowing over the center
@@CB-tx3ul good point. However, there are plenty of smaller roundabouts in the Netherlands that are very capable of handling large freight traffic
@@hooimeijerf It may come down to vehicle size and maneuverability differences then, or we just have larger standards. I'm not sure. This is about the right size for our roundabouts.
This is in a growing area of florida, they are clearly building this up for future expansion. They should have just redirected the road once though, paving and repaving made no sense, but then again, this is in Florida.
I’m Australian, we have roadabouts for days. I look at this and I have no idea what’s going on.
The roads approaching from the bottom and right have dedicated lanes for each direction (left lane turns left around the whole circle, middle goes straight, right slips right without entering the circle). The top and left roads have two lanes: one for going straight or turning left, and the other for a slip right turn)
You and the traffic engineers.
@@calebtaylor2614 interesting, I just don’t consider this a roundabout it kind of sort of works like one but not really. This might be safer though.
They drive on the right side of the road.
Especially up in Cairns they have roundabouts for what seems like forever & there huge too
Oh... that's a turbo roundabout
Except this has awful pedestrian crossings.
@@miles5600seriously, set them back from the junction and get rid of a lane or two
...And it's missing half the turbo part.
Like seriously why are there two left-turn lanes on the road from the right? It's not like you can't make a roundabout with the ability to change lanes to make a U-turn
no wonder americans dont like roundabouts when they construct them as ineficciently as possible
it's not ineficcent when you have to build one on an intersection that's existed far longer than the development has, and have to allow traffic to flow at the same time. Americans love roundabouts which is why we're building more. ignorant euro comment as usual
To construct them efficiently you have to block the traffic which no one wants because the cars will all seek other ways in their residential side streets.
@@thathungrypanda4386pretty sure the inefficient part was about the design, not the process
@@MoresteckIt has roughly the same lanes as before except now it's a turbo roundabout you fool
@@Moresteck either way, he is equally as wrong.
I would suggest putting up a wall of stone blocks in the center to prevent dumb driver from driving right through the center
At least a higher curb
I was really rooting for that palm tree in the middle. 😢
cant even make a normal circle. the very basics of a roundabout.
It’s called a turbo roundabout.
It's round about like a roundabout.
@miles5600 this is nothing like a Turbo Roundabout. We have them everywhere and this aint it
@@MisterMotel so what is a turbo roundabout like then? I’m Dutch and they were invented here, this is a turbo roundabout.
Turbo roundabout Google it.
That house got hosed.
America finally discovered the round about 🎉 🦅
This shows how America still doesn't understand roundabouts
We’ve had them for decades
Show us a timelapse of it being used please 🙏 to see if it works or not
In my province we have a few of these turbo roundabouts and at first they were uncomfortable to drive but quickly the locals catch on. In the summer you expect to find some slow confused drivers (mostly Americans imo) but you simply accomodate and maybe honk at them.
My serious critique is the missing island on the bottom 3 lane.
I’m from Belgium and when I just got my license, first thing I did was drive to NL, they have these turbo’s everywhere (makes sense since it was invented there) but it freaked me out the first time as well 😂
Not sure how people get confused on these, there very easy to understand, and by law your required to know how a roundabout works to get a license.
So much wasted money smh.
Roundabout. With lights... So, with all negatives of normal intersections
Not all, nowhere near, the safety advantage for instance, remains (and capacity)
Oh wait wtf this is a traffic circle not a roundabout
It’s a step in the right direction and much safer then a intersection
those are HAWK beacons for the ped crossings, not traffic lights
Im pretty sure that roundabouts are round, correct me if im wrong
How did the designer manage to ruin the simplicity of the design of a roundabout ? And why would they make entering lanes tangent to the circle thus making the design very much a design communicating yielding.
Are they under the impression that because there is written "yield" that it will magically make people disregard the fact that the road is clearly made to keep the speed of entering cars ?
I'm equally impressed at how munted this circle is
So it is diffuclt to make out from the camera angle, but there are traffic lights. In the USA, generally that would make it a traffic circle, not a roundabout.
in the US we yield to all those in the roundabout. When it's safe to enter you enter, when it's not safe you don't. It's not that hard. This roundabout is a traffic improvement over the lighted intersection that was previously present.
Additionally, because it's a yield, if you are approaching at speed and it is already safe to enter; you enter. You don't need to slow down. It's not like each entrance has a stop sign. You only yield when it is not safe for you to enter
@@lEGOBOT2565 I don't think that's what he's saying. That's how roundabouts work everywhere.
This is a problem with North American roundabouts, the lanes already point into the direction of the counter-wise flow of traffic which also makes it harder to see oncoming traffic on your left. The Netherlands has the best roundabouts so i suggest you take a look at those.
Why is it so hard for americans to understand the intrinsic "round" characteristic of round-abouts?
this was completely idiotic. such a monumental waste of time, money, and resources. shutting down the intersection and completing the job in a week would've been ideal
Damn, what kind of GPU are you using? That's like 8 FPS!
more than one gets in csl2
looks like daft punk helmet
Not sure. It's not round enough.
That is an oddly shaped Turbo-esq Roundabout... Nice...
But the slip lanes... Not a fan.
Just one more lane bro, just one more lane, it'll fix traffic, just one more lane bro
same number of lanes?
@@pizzaivlifeno?
@@ilgiuse7728But it does? Check the beginning and the end at the start of the roads at the top and the bottom of the screen. The beginning has 4 lanes at the top, 5 lanes on the right, and 5 lanes at the bottom counting the slip lane. At the end, there are 4 lanes at the top, FOUR lanes on the right, and 5 lanes at the bottom including the slip lane. It actually has less lanes!
You’re weird bro
It has less than before...
This is not a roundabout these are r compöicated intersections in one, A roundabout is one way jas no traffic lights and the cars in the roundabout have priority exit before all others can enter
No fucking way
Not even a roundabout
That’s just a T junction with a slip road
It’s official, the Americans failed at making a flat circle
It's a turbo roundabout, and they were invented in the Netherlands...
@@DwightKShrute0 I don’t think the Netherlands know what a roundabout looks like
@@conker6500 What is your definition of a roundabout and how does this not fit that definition?
@@DwightKShrute0 a roundabout - a road junction that traffic moves in one direction around a central reservation to another road known as an “exit”
Therefore, that road isn’t a roundabout since traffic isn’t moving in one direction, it’s a T-junction
@@conker6500 Where is the traffic not moving in one direction? All the lanes are going counterclockwise throughout the whole intersection.
that shape just looks odd and it doesn't look effective to me ... but it's made idiot proof I guess ...
I mean, it’s a step in the right direction and definitely MUCH safer then a intersection, it may be built for trucking and that’s why it’s so large (just a theory) but either way it’s better then doing nothing.
*This abomination of a roundabout makes me despair for the US infrastructure bill*
9 months to do something that should’ve taken a week
mess as always by the Americans
shut up
Where’s the mess
someones angry they don't have enough space to have a 18 lane freeway
Come to low Asia countries and look pls
@@Marshark50 ?
looks like a confusing mess to drive through Ive seen it done better drove through better design
What’s confusing
This is a roundabout for beginner😂😂 too much tutorial and tips on the road
Worst design ever - Give us the new 'pedestrian death' counts for those cross walks
Roundabouts are inherently anti-pedestrian as it prioritizes vehicles over pedestrians
Worst part is it the yield line is after the crosswalk instead of before the crosswalk.
@@lEGOBOT2565in the US* not in a lot of other countries.
@@miles5600 no that's just how they are. I've crossed roundabouts in Europe and had the same problem
@@lEGOBOT2565 nope. Visited plenty of countries and roundabouts like these are really safe for pedestrians, US road design just sucks.
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That looked supremely bad
*The slip lanes are unnecessary* , they encourage fast traversal, which undermines safety. This roundabout is monstrous in a bad way. The blame for Wright Construction may be for the amount of destruction involved, but likely not for the excessive design
There are no slip lanes. The shape makes it look like there are slip lanes but right turning cars actually have to yield to oncoming traffic from the roundabout.
US roundabouts always seem to be overdesigned. Seriously you only need a circle!
turbo roundabouts were invented in the Netherlands, they're more safe and more efficient than normal circles although i'm not so sure about this one in particular with the slip lanes and seemingly high-speed design
@@intervrt In the US suburban stroads like this one through Fruitville used to be 45 mph country roads and speed limit guidelines mandate a legal limit the same as or higher than the travelling speed of 85% of the traffic.
@@user-uo7fw5bo1o it is unfortunate when speed limits are determined based on driver behaviour instead of good road design
@@intervrt Road design is based on driver behavior too which is why stroads have no trees! 😩
@@user-uo7fw5bo1oThis is 1 turbo roundabout out of thousands already built in the US. I suggest not making a clown out of yourself in making blatant generalisations
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What a horrible design. No wonder many Americans don't like roundabouts.
What's so horrible? It's literally the definition of a turbo roundabout
That has gotta be the ugliest roundabout ive seen yet
You ruined a perfectly good intersection, not to mention the surrounding property.
The intersection didn't even need a roundabout, even when they closed so many lanes traffic was fine let alone build such big and fast and complicated roundabout
That's a multi-lane traffic circle which are considered dangerous. A modern roundabout is a single lane traffic circle with 10 mph - 15 mph operating speed using yield merge traffic metering. Those are the only traffic circles that will be included in roundabout statistics. The main road would have likely been served better by a good traffic light designed intersection. Ponderous amounts of left turning traffic from two roads of comparable volume are candidates for roundabouts. Roundabouts should process traffic faster than a alway stop controlled intersection. People pushing for roundabouts are secretly pushing for traffic. calming devices to discourage through traffic.
I hate traffic circles.
It's terrible that 2 people lost their yards to put in this monstrosity! Roundabouts suck.
They are safer than stop signs and both safer and cheaper than stop lights.
*American roundabouts suck