Worst Intersection (Junction) in the World (video)

[Thad1527]

New Jersey has been eliminating many of its traffic circles. They don't really work well with higher volumes of traffic. However, one was recently added near Camden County College. (Not in the city , Frank...in the southern part of the county.) The traffic flow there is improved; college traffic will no longer have trouble turning into the school.

State Farm hasn't updated its listing of most hazardous U.S. intersections since 1999. At that time, three of them were along Roosevelt Boulevard in northeast Philadelphia. Only minor adjustments have been made on the Boulevard since.

#1 was in Pembroke Pines, near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

 

[gsdx]

The difference is critical, because, typically, traffic circles get horribly congested, and the cars inside the circle oftentimes get trapped.

http://www.fugly.com/pictures/13108/traffic-circle-from-hell.html

 

[frankfrank]

New Jersey has been eliminating many of its traffic circles. They don't really work well with higher volumes of traffic. However, one was recently added near Camden County College. (Not in the city , Frank...in the southern part of the county.) The traffic flow there is improved; college traffic will no longer have trouble turning into the school.

State Farm hasn't updated its listing of most hazardous U.S. intersections since 1999. At that time, three of them were along Roosevelt Boulevard in northeast Philadelphia. Only minor adjustments have been made on the Boulevard since.

#1 was in Pembroke Pines, near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Some parts of Roosevelt Blvd. where the service road runs alongside it, and some of the rather unusual intersections resulting from it, "feel" a little strange to drive around - I assume that's what some of those three were?

Another part of Florida has some of the worst traffic I've ever seen in the United States. The area west and northwest of Tampa, along U. S. 19, in Dunedin, Clearwater and such places. Some other place with notoriously awful traffic always show up on the lists (Long Island/NYC, Seattle, Washington DC, Los Angeles, etc.), but I've never seen this place on a list...

It's probably not particularly dangerous, though, because nobody can ever get going fast enough to cause much damage, LOL. (OTOH, traffic on Roosevelt often sails along pretty fast, and THAT can cause damage if things go wrong...)

 

[pat grimshaw]

The angst would reduce if selfish people could ride the buses where they are available.

 

[Thad1527]

The angst would reduce if selfish people could ride the buses where they are available.

SEPTA's Route 1 and 14 buses run on Roosevelt Boulevard. They are very popular. The dangerous intersections are still dangerous. See, the buses don't go far enough; although they go most of the way through the city and into the suburbs, many drivers are going beyond. And many commercial vehicles need to deliver to the myriad businesses on the Boulevard and nearby.