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Originally Posted by Simpseatles
Traffic circles should be implemented more here, but the Hale-Trafalgar overpass is a huge step forward.
Somehow they add a more progressive and pleasant feel to a city, especially out in the suburbs.
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Waterloo Region now has 13 roundabouts, and plans to more than double that number in the coming years.
There are some locations in London where roundabouts would work really well and wouldn't eat up a lot of land.
The city has already examined putting a roundabout at the Commissioners/Hamilton/Old Victoria Road intersection and prospected the idea of converting the Wonderland/Warncliffe/Exeter triangle into a large rotary/traffic circle.
Roundabouts work best where you have a lot of turning traffic, because there's no oncoming traffic to stop these movements.
-If one or two of the gas stations were removed, the Wonderland/Oxford intersection would make a great roundabout because there's a ton of traffic turning here.
-Of course there are dozens of other locations in the city where they can work...
A vision of mine would see our city's busiest intersection: Wellington at Commissioners, turned into a roundabout.
-Wellington itself would have to curve a bit to the east, taking up some of the hospital lands of Victoria and Packwood in order to get a proper roundabout to fit. A huge 3 or 4 lane junction could then be added, easing traffic congestion considerably. All those traffic cues on Commissioners and the long red lights on Wellington could be eliminated.
Here's a really rough vision of what it could look like:
For optimal flow, some of the lanes in the roundabout would end, not continue the whole way in the circle. Example:
(just add more lanes to that.
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