Illinois-style traffic lights to built in the Metro Detroit area

[Whitehouse]

Over here you more and more see the traffic lights... being eliminated! Dangerous junctions which did have lights are ever more converted to mini roundabouts. This is right around the corner where I live.

A picture from the situation before the reconstruction. Pedestrians, bicycles and cars were all on the same level.


As you can see the conversion is only completed days ago before Google sent their camera car around. This was a junction with traffic lights. As you know, we're kind of fond of bicycles. This crossing is a major connection to a highschool some miles ahead, so lots of school children pass this crossing. And there have been accidents. Being juviniles ignoring a red light is almost second nature.....

Another point you can see is the pedestrian/cycle crossing going under. They constructed a tunnel.

Check it out.

A kilometer south there's a one-off, totally unique mini roundabout made in which a cycle path crosses right across the roundabout. I defies logic but.... it works like a charm! As a cyclist you cannot miss the oncoming traffic. Really safe solution, especially since this junctions lies in a bend in the road.

This is what that junction looked like before they started reconstruction.



Check it out what it looks like now! Pan around and see it from different angles. Those semi arches are lit at night.

Believe me, there's no second roundabout like this in the world. There were no traffic lights here but this was also a dangerous crossing. The main road speed is 80 km/h. Try doing that on a roundabout. won't work and that is precisely the goal of a roundabout, killing speed while maintaining a healthy flow speed.

Yes, you can learn a lot in a forum like this.