With everything they supposedly know, they can still design a bad intersection. Just a couple years ago they opened up a brand new doozie of a cable stay bridge that carries US Rte 1 across the Penobscot. I'll spare you the story of how they let the old bridge go to rot.
When you made landfall on the western end of the old bridge, you came up to what was basically a T -- traffic coming off the bridge followed around a curve to the left, and a state road with a stop sign entered from the right. It was a simple two-lane bridge, but visibiity was good all around fro people turning or entering.
So the open up this new bridge which has a center barrier about 4 feet high and 8-10 feetwide. Well, they threw a curve into the landfall on teh western ends, and put in a lane for eastbound traffic to turn left onto the state road. Problem is that the left turn traffic can't see traffic coming at them over the bridge. They didn't kill anybody but ws just a week they had four accidents. Worst case was one of those 32-foot Class A motor home rigs towing the family car behind, made the left turn (slowly, of course) and couldn't and didn't see the little Miata coming over the bridge.
All the millions spent on the design and erection of that bridge, all of the ledge they blasted out for the new landfall and approach, and nobody paid any attention to the line of sight. Their fix was to put in a traffic light, smack at the end of their fancy new bridge. Pretty pathetic.
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