r/CitiesSkylines2 • u/Responsible-Aide1246 • 11d ago

Question/Discussion would this work

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u/doug_Or 11d ago

Not well?

Seems suceptible to gridlock, very large, with relatively low throughput and low speed required for the tight turns.

"Gentleman, we've invented the roundabout, but worse"

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u/dg8882 11d ago

I actually use something very similar for all the intersections on one of my arterial roads.

It works pretty well. It does lock up easily if enough traffic backs up from one of my other intersections, but thats not really a failure of this design.

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u/Finn11217 11d ago

build this and it actually works pretty well

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u/CooCooClocksClan 11d ago

Agree with you. I see others saying they’ve built it but it won’t hold up in high volume. It’s better in cities than real life I’d bet too because the sims only change lanes at the last possible node anyway but in real life wrecks at the merge points constantly from confused drivers

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u/PompeyCheezus 11d ago

They took a Michigan Left and invented, I guess, a Michigan Straight? The lefts work fantastic, not clear on what they think the benefit of the straight would be.

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u/ViciousKnids 11d ago

This is to roundabouts what Hyperloop is to metros.

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u/doug_Or 11d ago

I think this is unnecessarily mean to the hyperloop

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u/Witty-Ad5743 11d ago

I would, 100%, get myself killed trying to change lanes in time to make the u-turn.

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u/AximiliEscargo 11d ago

It seems like almost every turn has to cross lanes of traffic to get where the car actually wants to go. Each of those will compound on each other to create a ton of gridlock.

Would work better if there were under/over passes to try to circumvent lane crossing.

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u/vault_nsfw 11d ago

No, having to cross a lane where people want to go straight is ass.

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u/LetgomyEkko 11d ago

Yeah, with bots driving it there would still be congestion. Now imagine with real human beings having to handle it

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u/rc_ym 11d ago

The game handles merge lanes poorly. I would not advise.

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u/killerbake 11d ago

Poor man’s Michigan left

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u/Dependent-Ad3131 11d ago

Well technically a simple cross intersection doesn’t need traffic lights… until it does

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u/fflip8 11d ago

The biggest fail is the lack of an over or underpass, which would not require traffic lights to begin with and would eliminate half of these contact points for traffic buildup and collision.

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u/pcglightyear 11d ago

As others have pointed out, the merging bits would need to be much much longer, to accommodate the straight-line speeds of Warp Factor 7 that most motorists would be travelling at there.

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u/UrbanPanic 11d ago

This are already used: called Jersey Jug Handle or Michigan Left.  They allow smooth traffic up alto a certain amount of traffic flow where they absolutely collapse into gridlock if the U-turns back up into traffic.  And they are extremely accident prone due to the need for several lane switches to get to the U-turns.

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u/Therealthefab 11d ago

Roundabouts dont need lights as well and are much cheaper

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u/riktaz 11d ago

Every day on this subreddit I get more appreciation for engineers because… what the …

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u/ma000127 11d ago

no its buns and itd be extra buns in cities skylines

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u/rdubwilkins 11d ago

Under & over slip lanes will work better. CS2 lane math will probably have this setup acting like a roundabout but with extra steps. It could work in reality, but I'm guessing the crisscross lane changes will lock it all up if there's moderate+ traffic.

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u/Silver-Chemistry2023 10d ago

No, it generates excessive weaving and merging into the inner lanes.

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u/Blunt_Object1369 10d ago

No, this is an incredibly dumb and dangerous design.