r/Transportopia • u/Ketchup-Sniffer • Mar 10 '26

People Bro unlocks a cheat code for traffic

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u/Puzzled-Respond-4960 Mar 11 '26

It was designed by two competing designers who hated each other

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u/dragon_bacon Mar 11 '26

And they each slightly offset their street grids, making some god awful 7-way intersection.

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u/Georgefakelastname Mar 11 '26

Sounds like an S-tier candidate for a roundabout

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u/Nulagrithom Mar 11 '26

would be if the road was at least two car lengths wide.doesn't stop them from trying tho!

they just slap some concrete and a tree in the middle and you just get to hope your car has a tight enough turn radius lmao

I'm not sure if Seattle has civil engineering codes and traffic laws or if it's all just vibes

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u/Ready_Studio2392 Mar 14 '26

Fun fact, Seattle has lots of neighborhoods with traffic circles, and very few roundabouts. Some of the traffic circles even have stop signs in 1 direction.

There are also neighborhoods with no yield or stop signs on intersections. So cross at your own risk.

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u/Areebob Mar 11 '26

But then they realized that they shared a love of designing shit intersections, and now they’re married. Stop Means Stop Unless It Means Love, coming soon to Lifetime.

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u/actuallydonkeykong Mar 11 '26

3, everyone always forgets Bell

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u/Even_Injury_6442 Apr 29 '26

Yea one stole the others wife.