Lmaao it’s true

Aahh, the good old JerseyJug Handles...lol. Rt. 70 near Brick Township is the craziest stretch. Within 3 intersections, all different, a jug handle, circle, and something else that I don't even know the name for...lol.

@@mr_coffee0109 and then there’s also Bay Ave and Hooper Ave. An at-grade cloverleaf in Toms River by Ocean County Mall. If you know then you know

@@z609gaming yes I do, right by where it intersects with 571. It's like they should have removed the traffic light and replaced it with an overpass making it a Cloverleaf interchange. I used travel through that intersection as a kid to go to the shore at Island State Park.

Across the river, PA has some Jersey-style jughandles, all on 4-lane roads. Examples include US422 in lower Berks north of Pottstown, PA309 in Montgomeryville.

Same here!!

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Don't want to sound like a smartass, but wouldn't a large enough two lane roundabout do just fine? No phases at all, less electricity bills (only for street lamps, no traffic signals), less stopping so consequently less CO2 and less fuel consumption etc. Plus it allows pedestrians to cross safely, as roundabouts slow the flow, and that even rhymes, wow. Conclusion: roundabouts are awesome. Right?

@@inertboi yea.... you know building a round about cost millions right?

@@coltonkinsey2977 hell no, where did you get that from? They cost about as much as the conventional intersections to build, and are much cheaper in the long run. You're way off buddy.

Because innovation costs money.

They do something similar for trains in the USA.

@@ashkebora7262 Not as much as making new roads!

And I wonder why we don't have more of these here in Germany. According to Wikipedia we have less than 20 Geschwindigkeitssignale (speed sign) installed here in Germany. I regularly drive on a road with such a system and I think it works perfectly (as long as nobody drives faster than the sign says). So I don't understand why it isn't used more often.

@@Jehty_ Here in the states, that variable sign would just say ZERO. I swear traffic control teamed up with the oil companies to try and MAXIMIZE fuel consumption. I cant tell you how many times I stopped at a red light for minutes, and NO ONE went through the green, and as soon as the cross traffic turned red and we turned green, cars would start accumulating on the cross road that was just green while we were waiting..

Same lol

You do, but it’s wonderful!

Better bulldoze that bicycle lane and bus lane to make room.

@@schroedingershat7912 and homes, stores, parks, etc?

@@josephj6521 Only if we replace the homes with high density housing with no parking. They don't need parks because they're in a 'high transit access area' (at least until we bulldoze the bus stop for another intersection).

Considering they're being replaced with on ramps and bridges, the space isn't really an issue. Either one takes plenty of land.

by any chance (?) did the cop say: "may I see your out of state driver's license . . . " Yup ! . . . you're good to go ! " B-)

@@solarnaut lmao

I was about to say, just replace everything with roundabouts, and im from America But we are still figuring them out. People think either A) always _stop_ before you enter a roundabout, even if its empty, or B) you always enter at _full speed_ even if the roundabout is full

@@jeremywoods770 not even sure why it's that difficult. Yield means yield to existing traffic. If no traffic, you have nothing to yield to so you just... Go. Then again this is the same country that can't seem to figure out how to merge into a freeway. Most seem to think you're supposed to match up with a random driver in the right lane and play a game of chicken with them.

@@alexmawdsley i know, right!?

@@alexmawdsley Bold of you to assume people know how to drive :P Yeah I see the chicken thing everywhere. In my city there are two or three roundabouts and I see one every day where I run. I see absolutely pants-on-head retarded operation by at least one car there every single day, and I'm only looking at it for a minute or so. People waiting for cars on the other side of the roundabout to come all the way around/exit the roundabout are the biggest problem. If the car's not near you you *cannot* physically hit it, simple physics, just go, just drive!

@@quantum_immortal69 Make you wonder if they also stop at highway interesections, because they see a car comming from the right?

They are the crazy intersections in UDOT's nightmares! I live here and hate them. Out of town visitors always complain about them!

We have this here in San Marcos TX. It is in fact weird to drive on the left hand side of the oncoming traffic suddenly.

UDOT loves to try out new ways of frustrating drivers. We have the CFI’s, Diverging Diamond’s, FLEX lane’s and the absolute worst is this left hand turn light that actually happens after the intersection. UDOT since this video has removed an additional 5 CFI’s along the Bangerter Highway and have since converted them to freeway interchanges. Makes driving that highway much nicer. The issue with the CFI’s is remembering that you shift over much earlier to make a left turn and sometimes you forget and miss the turn. Well, guess there is also another issue of people still going to the light and still try to turn left holding up the through traffic.

@@castirondude there are a couple near College Station as well.

Cities skyline will fix that itch

I've NEVER seen one!

The intersection shown here is University Pkwy and Sandhill Rd in Orem Utah. So there is at least one there.

There is one near my house on Dorchester Rd. Summerville, SC

Riiight

@@JonathanNelson-nelsonj3 The one at the beginning of the video in the time lapse was State Street and Center Street in Orem. So there's two, less than 2 miles apart.

it is great for traffic flow, but the only problem I have with it is that it doesn't let through traffic continue without stopping.

@blackhole4106 At the levels of traffic where a CFI is needed, nothing short of a highway interchange does that. If a roundabout hits capacity, people have to stop and wait too.

Getting a driver's license is too easy in America. It should be a hard test where you must get all the questions right. A hard question could be the difference between a life saved.

@@ILovePancakes24 agreed

Miami too.

@@ILovePancakes24 should be a returning thing. Like you need to recertify every 2 years. Lots of people don’t seem to know the rules of the road

In Germany we have something called "Right-hand drive bid" [Rechtsfahrgebot] which applies especially to our Autobahn. (Highway) This rule ensures that overtaking is only legal from the left side and that slow vehicles have to take the lanes on the right side. I have seen a lot of dashcam footage with accidents that would have been prevented by this rule.

That was literally my thought when starting this video 😂

Roundabouts in The States are really becoming fairly common. They blew a lot of peoples minds at first, but they've adapted fairly rapidly. I've experienced a few of the intersections in this video and they DO WORK.. but are much more intricate and people don't pay enough attention to be in the correct lane upon approach for them to be so sporadically placed.

In most areas of the US anything heavier than neighborhood traffic comes to a 3-way standstill in a roundabout and they greatly increase accidents because most US drivers aren't familiar with them

There's actually a roundabout just off camera to the left! They're unfamiliar to most drivers in the US. The cameraman is standing in behind the largest university in Utah. Very few people know how to drive in them properly, and the traffic in the surrounding area is too heavy for proper enforcement (or teaching). Two: roundabouts are often known as a traffic calming device, because they force traffic to slow down. This doesn't work well in places like Utah where snow plows require a certain amount of momentum to do their job properly.

@@osco4311 the whole slowing of traffic is crap doesn't stop the plows in northern Europe: Sweden Finland etc. That all have very snowy winters and require the road closing. Roundabouts literally would solve this issue and more

[shudders in magic roundabout]

hatched yellow boxes work really well basically what these americans are trying and failing at

@@Hdtjdjbszh hatched boxes work when people actually listen to them... or know what they even are

Yes and because of the ''non standard'' aproach you have no idea what lanes you can use for forward unless you have clear markings and signage. Lack of road markings and random unnecessary logic are the reason for plenty of near misses and accidents that could simply be avoided by a bit more standardisation and leaving only the more complicated situations as ''exceptions''...

A big weird roundabout with 7 directions, 23 traffic lights and 3 shortcuts so nobody understands what's going on?

[sarcastic answer] Well, yeah, but This Is America! and it would be Un-American do do anything that might upset or harm our oil-company overlords! [end sarcasm] Honestly, most newer cities and pretty much all suburbs (where most Americans live) were designed from the ground up to be car-centric and car dependent. Social prestige is often affected by how car-dependent your neighborhood is (how big is your yard? how hard is it for "The Poors" to get to?) To make US suburbs walk/cyclable, you'd have to convince people to give up land for paths and lanes for bicycles (and protection curbs), convince people that maybe they don't really *need* that much lawn, and maybe there could be more housing instead. Convince people that poverty is not a personal moral failure (that's the hard part). It would be easier to level it all and restart from scratch. In the place where I grew up, cars were so necessary for living that the concept of not having one was utterly unthinkable. Not having even the crappiest most beat up car meant you were the poorest of the poor, and in America, that is a Sin. The importance of cars is baked into American culture and, though we're making tiny inroads on changing that, will take a lot more than a couple of pedestrian-aware intersections to fix. Pardon the rant, but "wouldn't it be more effective" makes it sound a lot simpler than it is.

The US is a big country and unless you live in a metro area and only travel within the metro area you'll need a car if you want to do what you want to do and not just wherever the bus happens to go at certain times. State of Utah alone is over 5 times larger than your home country, some people's commutes each day is measured in hours not minutes so having your own vehicle is a must if you want to have a decent job. Not to mention the time and cost of building infrastructure over a big country, not every place is going to be great and everyone learns how to deal with it and get on with their day.

@@s0nnyburnett I never said get rid of cars lol, plenty of Dutch people drive to work because its the best option. My point is that there should be more options, and even in the US, a lot of car journeys are short and in built up areas where other transportation options are possible. In the country side, of course, use a car, we do that too.

Those pedestrian tunnels must be scary. Seems like a place where people frequently would get robbed or assaulted. I think I would rather dodge the cars.

Who wants to spend hours lining up and waiting at the side of the road just to get on a Coronawagon? Public transport use in my region has stabilized at 40% of traditional level for the past year. The "change" that has occurred is that people have realized that taking the bus is inconvenient and disease-ridden. I will ride in the comfort and safety of my personal automobile and go where I want, when I want.

mmm yes and annually seeing the state flower; the elusive orange cone.

And every time it rains it's a guessing game of whether you're following the right semi-invisible road lines

Thats the problem. Road signs in the US are not clear or consistent. European road signs are much clearer.

Airline at Siegen, I live right around the corner. Greetings!

@@wadeguidry6675 hiya haha

I know where that is. When I saw this video the first place I thought of was Bangerter/201.

They stopped saying most of the names and if a highway number is available. It sucks, because nobody knows where Hwy 154 (Bangerter) is, and definitely not Hwy 85 (Mountain View Corridor).

Austin liberal commies using socialist engineering! Jk 😋 we have a couple here in Georgetown Tx and boy it works! Kinda confusing but you get used to it 😁

There are also a couple in San Marcos and College Station.

Traffic lights are never a better solution on junctions with light traffic.

We have several 4 way stops where I live and a few are high traffic-ish. They work great. You get to go when it is your turn. I sit at a 4 way stop 30 seconds tops. A light cycle 2 minutes.

The road I live on has 6 consecutive single-lane roundabouts. It's probably an artifact of bad city planning given how extremely close they are, but they work very efficiently.

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Traffic circles killed the round about. The average person doesn't know the difference

Also as an European I have to add the fact that city planning can also be made without giving cars the priority. European suburbs are much denser and thus have more potential to get public transport such as trains, and local walkable surroundings with cafes and shops. Of course European suburbs are car-dependent on many cases at least on the outer edges of the city, but the street network is planned to serve both pedestrians and cars.

Roundabouts are coming to the US. Around here they're building a ton of them on country roads where cars don't feel like yielding to traffic. But I also see them being built near freeway on/off ramps and in spaces where they have multiple roads intersecting and have the space to put in a roundabout rather than a light.

didn’t even know this was a thing until i left CA 😭

I've actually seen it over a number of interchanges and some high-traffic exits in the LA/OC area, especially near Disneyland. It seems to be spreading as they work on other areas, as well.

You also usually don’t have the traffic to justify weird designs.

Yeah there's really a lot of opportunity to ruin everything with more concrete

The intersection shown there isn't really in what'd I'd describe as "countryside" - it's right next to a university campus so the land was probably pretty expensive.

I saw someone turn left from Johnson and end up in the left turning lane on Camellia just this week.

I swear there’s on in Baton Rouge but I can’t find it

@@nc818 It was the first CFI in the US, and it's at Sherwood/Siegen and Airline.

Obviously the designers know that and design accordingly. Like how they place a jutting edge on a highway exit so people dont accidentally turn in.

ah i hate that intersection so much lol

False Happy Valley, AZ roundabouts were redesigned into a crazy looking intersection Look it up if u don’t live here

Because they were way too damn busy

@@madmonkey8141 from what I find online the 2 roundabouts were always meant to be an interim measure. Looking at the aerial photos of them, they are quite small compared to the ones we use in the UK. In fact they are on par with the ones we use to get into a supermarket and don't look fit for purpose for a busy intersection. Although I agree with you in principle with your particular example, a big 3 lane roundabout at the junction in the video would work better than the way it is currently. You could also use traffic lights on the roundabout during rush hour, again fairly common here.

@@anthonycarless1748 On Dutch way of roundabouts; kzfaq.info/get/bejne/apeIdd1ytNPReYk.html

@@raphdroidt692 just like ours but without the cycle lane. Do the cyclists have right of way?

I'm not familiar with those. Holy cow, those look crazy! I need to see if there are any out west that I can see/video. Thanks!

@@RoadGuyRob look at carmel, indiana

Look kids Big Ben Parliament

These are super common at minor freeway interchange in New Zealand.

@@RoadGuyRob I-25 and 14th Street, Loveland, Colorado. Right next to the Loveland Park-n-Ride.

That spot already has a bridge taking traffic over the highway below. He said that the diverging system he talked about was used only to allow the state to save money to build a bridge which is a more permanent solution.

There’s a 1/2 one (it’s a normal intersection on one side, this on the super busy side intersecting it) on SR82 just outside Ft. Myers, and it has made a huge difference! It looked crazy, but when the traffic to turn right backs up the 4 lane road for a mile at least twice a day, and the highway is getting widened, why not, right? Awesome. There is a ton of farm traffic that comes north on SR 82 from Immokalllee, semis filled with produce from the tomato, bell pepper, and fruit farms, and of course the citrus groves, and it is dangerous as all get out. Mix it with a large suburb (Lehigh) with underdeveloped infrastructure, and you can imagine that it’s a mess. That intersection is one of the 2 main ways to get into Lehigh from Ft. Myers, I-75, Cape Coral, etc., so it sees pretty heavy traffic and was a great place to try it out. It takes twice the space, but traffic flows a million times better. Thank goodness, because a new high school opens up next year not far from it, lol! Good luck and hopefully the planners in Miami-Dade will be able to sell the idea on your side of the state!

There are none... The batteries and other tech in the cars are MAJOR polluters and those cars are COAL powered for the most part or fossil fuels. Now if CA wanted to put in a bunch of Thorium Salt reactors to make electricity, then we are talking about a long term sustainable power source. Much more Thorium than Uranium and you cannot turn the leftovers into bombs. But they could be used for Nuclear batteries for communications devices on mountain tops and other remote places as they cool off. The waste from Thorium is much less hazardous than standard Uranium reactors.

We also need to have more roundabouts in the UK as well. Where i live there are t-junctions with slow traffic lights that would be much more efficient as roundabouts or just no lights. in the evening at a certain junction i often have to wait at a red light for no reason - you can easily see if anything is coming and there is nothing in the evening after 8PM. The traffic lights should turn off after 8PM.

Illinois too, I'm in Northern Illinois about 10 minutes from the Wisconsin border and they're putting them in over here too. They are built in areas that honestly didn't need them and the budgets are in the millions, its insane.

@@AcousticGString yep, seen unnecessary round abouts. Some I'm told are only busy part of the day such as a school or large company letting out. Cities will put in small round abouts to discourage semi traffic in certain areas. Oshkosh wi has round abouts back to back. No sooner are you through one, there's another. You really need to know where you're going when you hit these. My pet peeve with round abouts, beside snowplowing, is that they mound up the center and plants things obstructing the view of traffic. The whole idea is to increase traffic flow instead they hinder it by restricting the view.

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As someone living in the US who is from a country where roundabouts are common. Yes people struggle with them here. Just think of them as joining a one way road, that's it, you get on it when it's clear then take whatever exit you need. Don't stop on it just like you wouldn't randomly stop on a normal road because someone was waiting to pull on to it. Also it keeps traffic flowing and doesn't need electricity. It could be used to replace so many stop lights. It really would be a great solution for a lot of intersections. You can use them to pull a u-turn safely. I love them.

Round abouts are pretty awesome when done correctly and not confused with a traffic circle.

I saw the name of this and I was like Ibet that is what they are using on university parkway. Then I started the video and was confirmed.

That intersection doesn't work well for me, there have been times where cars cross in a yellow light and get stuck in that intersection during a red light. My solution is to make a left turn a block before and go the long to get to that shopping center there, I have noticed that over time more cars doing the same thing, I got that idea from public transportation, the local bus does that.

Me too!

@@PurpleObscuration: "Shopping center..." Ha, you could just say "Walmart."

Brigham Young's ghost must have convinced them! 😂

When in doubt roundabout as i always say.

@@zerotheliger: That would probably be even harder on a road this size.

Until there's too much traffic and then roundabouts don't work anymore.

@@s0nnyburnett I wonder what the maximum capacity actually is? As in, what does that massive roundabout in England carry?

@@s0nnyburnett I’m thinking of Swindon. That takes a lot more attention to drive, but if you read about it, the general feeling is it’s a high-capacity site.

It’s bad enough places are putting in roundabouts.

I was thinking that too. But Americans aren't well constitutionally suited to big roundabouts. Each driver thinks the whole thing is theirs. Drivers in roundabouts have to be willing to work together.

Do you know why they are confused? Que up at the arrow of your direction sounds pretty straight forward to me.

@@p1x3lman you underestimate how retarded some drivers are

Problems: 1. We're actually _not_ European, and 2. that would probably be too expensive for this size of street and our state, or too much hassle to go around in right there on our way to the freeway which is just barely past that.

@@HelloKittyFanMan. Yes, we know you're not European, because you drive cars big enough to have a grizzly bear behind the steering wheel. Point is, a roundabout or turbo roundabout is definitely cheaper than some convoluted traffic light system. It depends, of course, on how many lanes of traffic you have, but more than two lanes in either direction should not have a single-level intersection.

@@SeverityOne: Why do you bring up the size of _some_ of our vehicles, as if that should make any difference (like you don't have any over there)? And what do you mean by "a roundabout or a turbo roundabout," as if turbo roundabouts aren't already roundabouts despite the word "roundabout" in their term? Look at the number of lanes on our road right here in the video then. It was my understanding that a roundabout that size could be prohibitively expensive, at least for our city or state. And many more people head to the freeway from this side than from the west side of the city, so they probably are glad that they don't have to be bothered with hooking into and out of a big circle every time they just want to go to the freeway entrances, which are just the next block.

@@HelloKittyFanMan. I didn't say "as a European", that was "nerdegem". And indeed, nobody over here drives such big cars as they do in North America. The roads simply aren't big enough. A turbo roundabout is indeed a roundabout, but a more efficient one. It has a greater capacity than a normal roundabout, but like a roundabout, it has a certain limit to its capacity. Point is, a roundabout (and especially a turbo roundabout) has a greater capacity than a traditional intersection, with or without traffic lights. I've never quite understood the American aversion to roundabouts. They weren't a thing when I was young (let's say the 1970s, early 1980s) but now you find them everywhere. The other Europeans looked at what the British were doing and figured "yeah, that makes sense".

@@SeverityOne: Oops, I lost track of which people were saying what, LOL; sorry! Anyway... I bet there are some people over there at least some places in your continent with things like a Ford Excursion or a Chevy Suburban. Maybe not many, though. You're still not making sense with your " 'turbo roundabout' vs. 'roundabout' " logic. It's as if you don't think the differentiation words "standard" and "regular" don't exist, so you say "but like a roundabout" as if the other option wasn't also one. You did use the word "normal," though; however, you didn't perpetuate that. The comparison only makes sense if you continue to use a word like that to separate the two. Roundabouts "weren't a thing" when you were young? Oh? When were they invented, according to you? The encyclopedia says the term was coined in 1960 and the first standardized one in the UK was installed in 1966. And maybe they existed even before the 60s under a different term, but I can't find anything "concrete" until 1960. So obviously they existed before you were born. I don't know about the Latin countries or Canada, but at least here in the U.S. part of the continents, I'm not sure why people claim we've had an "aversion" to roundabouts. We have several smaller ones right here in Utah. Maybe on this particular road they've studied that and figured that it wouldn't clear enough traffic like this CFI does. Maybe we don't want to have to go through a roundabout right before trying to enter the freeway right there. Maybe it would be too close to the roundabout that's already at the front of the college right there. Maybe they figured that it would be too costly to figure out how to integrate and then do so with the proximity of this intersection's branches combined with the number of lanes (it may be too irregular). But that's just my guess for this particular one. I have no idea about the others. But we do have a lot of roundabouts these days. Even my parents' little city of around 3000 people installed one at kind of the front of the city from the outskirt roads. It's a single-lane one as most of our roundabouts are. I don't even know if we have any multilane ones.

Did you not watch the video? There is a pedestrian tunnel beneath.

I did not know about that. I am sure to be there for some odd reason sometime in 2021. I live off of i79 near Neville island. Edit: I watched the video about the road. Now that I see the design, I may not. I would more likely be passing through I70.