Alright, one last one for the uh, morning.
I managed to resolve the traffic dilemma for my Quads in a way that is both simple and kind of hilarious, and which ends up fitting two conditions.
- Fuck through traffic.
- If you’re going somewhere within your Klick (kilometer development of four ‘quads’ for those who haven’t read the other posts), you go on foot, bike, or at most a golf cart, unless you’re moving furniture in a van, in which case it’s worth it to drive all the way around.
Here’s how it works.
The klick has two one-way intake roads, east/west, of four lanes each. A single lane splits off from the intake for each quad, going straight into a parking lot. The other two lanes go to a roundabout. The klick also has two one-way outflow roads, which the roundabout leads to. Each quad has one lane from its parking lot to the outflow road. Through traffic east/west will always get directed north/south, and thus rarely has a reason to enter the klick.
This is overkill for the 300 resident quad above, but for a more developed quad the throughput would be astounding. With little through traffic, each quad has two dedicated exit lanes, with a very long turning lane to queue up in. If these exit onto a six lane road, the center two lanes out of four can turn in either direction.