Roundabouts are generally safer than Michigan left turns due to the shallow angle at which any collisions occur. You can get t-boned in a Michigan left where you can’t in a roundabout. Plus the Michigan left requires you to cut across 2 lanes of traffic to get to the u-turn lane.
Maybe I’m just biased living in a community with lots of roundabouts, but I hated trying to get around Detroit with all the Michigan lefts last time I visited.
Viability for roundabouts is usually centered around the question of: do we have enough land or right of way at this intersection to fit a roundabout. Where the 1 & 5 intersect there’s plenty of room for one, especially with the pre-existing on/off ramps
Roundabouts are generally safer than Michigan left turns due to the shallow angle at which any collisions occur. You can get t-boned in a Michigan left where you can’t in a roundabout. Plus the Michigan left requires you to cut across 2 lanes of traffic to get to the u-turn lane.
Maybe I’m just biased living in a community with lots of roundabouts, but I hated trying to get around Detroit with all the Michigan lefts last time I visited.
Understandable, but this intersection is on the open highway, not in a community. I’m not sure how viable a roundabout would be.
Viability for roundabouts is usually centered around the question of: do we have enough land or right of way at this intersection to fit a roundabout. Where the 1 & 5 intersect there’s plenty of room for one, especially with the pre-existing on/off ramps
Yeah, space certainly shouldn’t be an issue there.
I’ve seen these large roundabouts in the Ottaway region of Quebec on Autoroute 50, they work pretty well.