You’d want the pedestrian crosswalks to be a few feet back from the circle for better visibility. Overall not a viable solution for this intersection especially with a bus tunnel lol

I do really like the changes to the intersections with Marshall and Meyers though!

I had to zoom but it goes under the circle with its lanes.

And even still they’re safer than intersections with traffic lights

Is that a fucking bus tunnel? Bro draw something less realistic.

Or Mexico

🙋‍♂️ This one does.

And yet I also agree with you 100%.

In Driver's Ed, western Hanover County circa 1995, traffic circles got about 10 seconds of instructional time. I still remember being told we'd never see one unless we went to Gordonsville or Northern Virginia.

I love them and breeze right through, but I trust nobody else who's in or near the circle. Head on a swivel, foot ready on the brake pedal.

Fun fact: that Subway building is weird looking because it used to be a White Tower, an old rival of White Castle.

Traffic signals have no place in a traffic circle. That's how you end up with dysfunctional clusterf*cks like the Fairfax Circle.

https://ggwash.org/view/3181/make-fairfax-circle-a-real-circle

"This circle has a series of lights, which effectively kills any chance of it being a true traffic circle. This also makes merging into the circle difficult, because given the light cycle the circle may be filled with stopped cars which often create their own lanes."

but didn't it used to be a White Castle?

I’m no traffic engineer but couldn’t there be stop lights hooked to ped xing buttons? I think DC has examples of this although those circles are bigger, not sure if size limits here would be an issue.

Or Europe

> The interior lane can't double as a turn lane if the exterior lane isn't forced to exit

Apparently you've never been to Massachusetts.

Is the pulse supposed to kick flip over that rotary or what?

Traffic circles are pretty good for a safe and efficient flow of cars (if they know how to use it) but they’re not really great for pedestrians. With a constant flow of car and bus traffic, there’s not really any chance for pedestrians to cross. Other than that I think it’s a pretty great idea!

The bus lanes already exist in real life though.

>half the usable land area in that picture is just parking

Get on satellite view, that's true for so much of Richmond

>kinda ugly so I erased it

Lol, but you left so many other ugly things

Urban planning at its finest

I like that the medians give pedestrians a safe stepping stone to cross the street half at a time instead of waiting for the rare case when the whole road to stop for them. I really think pedestrian islands like these make it much safer to cross.

I'm not sure that traffic circles like these make anyone safer though. It seems like there would continuously be traffic, making it harder for pedestrians to cross even half way

You should just start repainting the lines like Kramer did.

This looks like a nightmare. Richmond would totally approve

Bless you for thinking Virginia drivers know the first thing about navigating traffic circles safely.

Tweek the inner turn lane.

Wild that half the usable land area in that picture is just parking.

With the way people drive in this city, this thing is guaranteed to be a 6 to 8 car pile up regularly.

I seem to have missed a crucial flaw, I’ll fix that at some point.