08-25-2016, 01:50 PM
(08-25-2016, 01:36 PM)Canard Wrote: Yeah, I can imagine that (as a driver)...
There is a merit worth mentioning to huge radii turns - one single right-turning car which can't complete the turn because of a pedestrian doesn't block the rest of the straight-through traffic behind it, because there's room for the vehicle to sit there at a 45 degree angle and wait for the pedestrian to clear the crossing. So flow is improved.
That can be accomplished while leaving the radius tight by having the crosswalks further from the corners like the Dutch design: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011/...-or-is-it/