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New Floating Cycle Roundabout (2012)

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Re: New Floating Cycle Roundabout (2012)

#32

Post by JoeAltmaier »

AdrianB1 wrote: post #11

This is the kind of construction that is great if you can afford it. As a cyclist I would love it, as a taxpayer I am not sure I do: it is not cheap enough to be mass implemented, building one (or a handful) is then a marketing stunt. If I use the bicycle to go to work I have a dozen of heavy traffic intersections to cross, about 1/4 of the trip time I spend waiting for a green light, if one of these would be built t…

Its about safety, not traffic efficiency. BIcycles were being run over when folks made a mistake (and they made a lot of mistakes in this massive roundabout)

And I'm not sure civil engineering jobs like this are more efficient en masse. They're all essentially one-off?

Re: New Floating Cycle Roundabout (2012)

#36

Post by SJSque »

NietTim wrote: post #34
SJSque wrote: post #33

I cycle over the Hovenring almost every workday, and I drive underneath it often too. Now you know roughly where I live. Ask Me Anything...

Patat or Friet?

Excellent question.

Friet, although I have to remember to ask for patat when visiting Oma en Opa.

Re: New Floating Cycle Roundabout (2012)

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Post by SJSque »

anonymousDan wrote: post #37

Looks elegant. I wonder how to use it would be to a car crashing into the central pole?

I've never tried crashing my car into the central pole, but as you can see here [1] there's quite a lot of clearance around it, and in my experience the lights are almost always red when approaching the junction anyway, so you rarely get the chance to crash at high speed.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/Ke4NFcE2osEvCNTH6

Re: New Floating Cycle Roundabout (2012)

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Post by monknomo »

AdrianB1 wrote: post #11

This is the kind of construction that is great if you can afford it. As a cyclist I would love it, as a taxpayer I am not sure I do: it is not cheap enough to be mass implemented, building one (or a handful) is then a marketing stunt. If I use the bicycle to go to work I have a dozen of heavy traffic intersections to cross, about 1/4 of the trip time I spend waiting for a green light, if one of these would be built t…

They did it for about $6mil, which is pocket change for an intersection of that size.

Re: New Floating Cycle Roundabout (2012)

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Post by ncmncm »

hapidjus wrote: post #9
systemtest wrote: post #4

Another multi-level roundabout dating back to the 1940s, De Berekuil: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Berekuil (The Bearpit) We like our cyclists.

Here's a similar solution in Malmö https://www.google.com/maps/@55.5648378,13.0021608,801m/data...

Ooh, three levels! Makes sense that the bikes don't actually need a roundabout to manage traffic.
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