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Old 08-11-2018, 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Rga20 View Post
...The only real answer, which would never happen, would be to funnel traffic to a single lane entering the circle and making the circles single lanes. It wouldn't impede traffic all that much and the problem would be largely solved. Just my humble opinion.
You’re right about it never happening. But you’re wrong about the impact if it did. Capacities would be dramatically reduced and conflicts would be dramatically increased. It will never happen because traffic engineers know it would be a disaster.