On 11/09/2018 9:37 AM, AMuzi wrote:
On 9/10/2018 10:12 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
Went for a ride the other day and passed through Cambridge Ontario on
the way to another city. We went to stop at a favourite restaurant in
Cambridge and discovered that this city has a weird way of doing the
areas near some of the roundabouts. The weird thing is a concrete road
divider that runs from roundabout to roundabout. In the case of the
restaurant we wanted to go to, the distance from the road we were on
to the restaurant after turning right onto the road it's on was @110
meters. They have put a roundabout in instead of the stoplights that
used to be there plus they've added this concrete barrier to the road
the restaurant is on. This means that instead of driving/cycling @110
meters to get to the restaurant you have to drive all the way to the
next roundabout, go through that roundabout and then drive back up to
the entrance to the restaurant. That is a distance of just about 1.5
KILOMETERS.

The road above the first roundabout (if you turn left instead of
right) continues to another roundabout and this road to that
roundabout is also divided by a concrete barrier. This again forces
people to drive/cycle quite a bit further (+1 kilometer) to get to a
driveway to another plaza.

So much for conserving energy or getting more people to use bicycles
instead of cars.

I really do wonder what the road planners were thinking when they
approved those concrete road barriers.

Cheers


It seems a simple (extant) stop sign or flashing red is not nearly
expensive enough to add in the proper gratuities.


Maybe the concept is the same as IKEA. You have to pass everything else
they want to sell you to get to what you're looking for...